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.

In the early 1990's, Mortal Kmobat became one of the first videogames to cause parents all over the country to go into an uproar and implore, "Won't somebody think of the children?!"  Now-antiquated graphics depicting blood splattering, dismembering, and decapitations added to the fun of an enjoyable fighting game for a bloodthirsty youth just waiting for the moment to freeze their friends' entire bodies then smash them into oblivion with a roundhouse kick.  This lead naturally a significantly less violent PG-13 Mortal Kombat movie, but the cinematic franchise has been dormant for the last fourteen years.  Now though, it looks like New Line Cinema is preparing a Mortal Kombat reboot, and the studio has hired a familiar webseries duo to get the job done.

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.

The Hobbit, Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of the Lord of the Rings prequel novel by JRR Tolkein, has been in production for almost three months now, but a major role had, until today, yet to be cast.  The role in question is Bard the Bowman, the last king of Dale, a small city of men in Middle Earth.  The grim-faced Bard, who will play a major part in the second film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will be played by Welsh actor Luke Evans.

When not releasing promotional images for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Summit Entertainment also likes to drop a picture or two from The Three Musketeers, the 3D update of Alexandre Dumas' 200 year-old novel.  Three new images show D'Artagnan and the Musketeers, played by Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Matthew Macfadyen, and Ray Stevenson, along with Juno Temple as Queen Anne, Milla Jovovich as M'Lady De Winter, and Christoph Waltz as Cardinal Richelieu.  Dither no longer, you rapscallion, take a look the pictures, right here.