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. 

By now, everyone is familiar with annual nerd-hajj to pop-culture Mecca at Comic-Con in San Diego every July.  While Comic-Con is doubtless the world's largest gathering of genre enthusiasts in the world, Comic-Con International isn't limited to that one event.  Normally, mid-March sees a higher-than-average concentration of nerdlingers and celebrants of every stripe in San Francisco for WonderCon, perhaps the second biggest comic book convention of the year.  This year, though, due to renovations at the con's home, he Moscone center, WonderCon is relocating to the sunny climes of Southern California in Anaheim.

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.

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.