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‘Afterlife’ Shatters Franchise Record, Jovovich Confirms More Sequels!
Critics panned it, but the fans are loving it, either way Sony Screen Gems’ Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (our review; your reviews) shattered franchise records, of course with the help of 3-D ticket prices. Afterlife, the fourth film in the franchise, opened to an estimated $27.7m take, putting it at the #1 spot at this weekend’s boxoffice. September 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction took in $23.7 million in its opening weekend. On a side note, the success has guaranteed a sequel of sorts. “This new ‘Resident Evil’ is the first one to ever open at No. 1 worldwide. It’s the biggest movie in the franchise,” star Milla Jovovich told Vulture, while hosting the Mercedes-Benz Tea Party at Lincoln. “So we’re definitely going to make another one.” The original plan was to reboot the franchise with Resident Evil Begins (as original reported here), although an opening of this magnitude can drastically change the company’s direction. Expect an announcement quite quickly.
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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