Resident Evil: Retribution opened the Sony Panel at WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim this past weekend. “This time it’s global” boasted the film’s promotional push; it’s on the Resident Evil trailer and posters, and certainly evokes the sense that, though this is the fifth of the Resident Evil variations, there is more to witness.

At WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim, California on Saturday, director Paul W. S. Anderson (Death Race, The Three Musketeers) appeared in front of a Ballroom full of fans, along with his wife Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, The Fourth Kind) to discuss the fifth installment of their popular Resident Evil series entitled Resident Evil: Retribution. 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick had a chance to speak with director Paul W. S. Anderson before his panel on Saturday about Resident Evil: Retribution and the fan favorite franchise. Anderson discussed the upcoming new film, where it picks up in the aftermath of Resident Evil: Afterlife, flashbacks to Alice's life before the zombie apocalypse, which classic video game characters make their first film appearance in this installment, as well as which Resident Evil actors make their return to the franchise, and if this really will be the final Resident Evil film in the series. 

A decade after Milla Jovovich first starting shooting guns and kicking asses as Alice in the videogame adaption Resident Evil, here we are in 2012 and a fifth installment in the franchise is going to continue in that rich tradition of gun-shooting and ass-kicking with Re5ident Evil: Retribution.  Almost two weeks ago, Screen Gems released the very first teaser trailer, which featured Alice standing atop the White House.  Today, the studio has dropped the first teaser poster and a bit of promotional artwork.

Not many franchises make it to a fifth installment, but a decade after the videogame adaptation Resident Evil, here we are at Resident Evil: Retribution, or, as we recently discovered it's titled, Re5ident Evil: Retribution.  The fourth sequel is set to arrive in September, and the very first teaser trailer has arrived online today.

Have you ever noticed that the number 5 quite distinctly resembles the letter S?  No really, if you squint, they look like the same thing.  Screen Gems is out to prove the resemblance with the title to the fifth film in the Resident Evil franchise based on the ongoing videogame series.  This installment was previously referred to as Resident Evil: Retribution, but a new official synopsis issued today unveiled the new, jazzed up title, Re5ident Evil: Retribution.

Just today you may have seen a poster featuring Kate Beckinsale wielding weaponry in black leather on the poster for third sequel Underworld Awakening, and now you can peek at unofficial images featuring Milla Jovovich in black leather, tights, and a barrel full of buckles on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution.  That would be the fourth sequel in the action-horror franchise that began back in 2002 with videogame adaptation Resident Evil.  So today you get two dark clothes-loving leading ladies rocking guns in two different series, one which pits vampires against werewolves and another which pits human survivors against postapocalyptic undead hoards.  So take a look at Jovovich back in character as the unkillable heroine Alice, sporting the emblem of the evil Umbrella corporation on her buckle-laden outfit.

The Three Musketeers, a 3D action-oriented take on Alexandre Dumas' enduring serialized novel, arrives in theaters tomorrow, but Summit Entertainment has released the first four and a half minutes of the film online, presumably in an attempt to woo audiences with the movie's action-packed, comic book-style opening scenes.  These scenes introduce the title characters, played by Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, and Ray Stevenson, along with cohort Milla Jovovich in her usual role as an ass-kicker, in this case Milady de Winter.

While nobody's expecting Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil director Paul WS Anderson's take on Dumas' swashbucklers to be exactingly faithful to the original text, I'm pretty sure that the book also opened with a scuba-diving ninja armed with steampunk-style weaponry, Aramis basically being Batman, and Porthos hulking out, all in order to raid Leonardo Da Vinci's private vault.  That, my friends, was a bit of sarcasm.

Opening in theaters on October 7th is the new coming of age comedy from first time director Abe Sylvia called Dirty Girl. The film features an excellent cast of young and veteran actors including Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element), William H. Macy (Fargo), Mary Steenburgen (Back to the Future Part III), Dwight Yoakam (Sling Blade), Nicholas D'Agosto (Final Destination 5), Tim McGraw (The Blind Side), and newcomer Jeremy Dozier.

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down and talk with actors Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier about their work in Dirty Girl. The actors spoke openly about the film, their characters and the friendship that they form, working with writer/director Abe Sylvia, the '80s, and the music of Melissa Manchester.

Almost a decade ago, writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson made his second videogame adaptation (the first was Mortal Kombat) with Resident Evil.  Anderson wrote and produced two subsequent sequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction before returning to the franchise for last year's Resident Evil: Afterlife, which featured objects flying at audiences in 3D for the first time in the series.  Since then, there's been no doubt that Milla Jovovich would reprise her lead role as Alice for another installment, but now there's confirmation that both Anderson and Jovovich will return to their signature franchise for Resident Evil: Retribution.

A new, second trailer for director Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers declares, "This fall, the legend comes to life like never before," and it does seem to be true.  I've never seen and interpretation of Alexandre Dumas' classic serialized novel that included steampunk weaponry, CG explosions, slow motion bullet-dodging, and giant zeppelin war machines.  Given Anderson's background in video game movies and sci-fi, it's not terribly surprising that he brought along these trappings to his first adaptation of classic literature, but that certainly doesn't mean it all necessarily fits.