Sony Pictures Entertainment and Capcom have announced plans to produce a full-length Resident Evil CGI movie based on the Biohazard video game series.  

The movie will apparently be called Biohazard: Degeneration and is currently scheduled for release some time in 2008.

Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard) is a media franchise consisting of a survival horror video games series, comic books, novelizations, three Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectibles, including action figures, strategy guides and publications. Developed by Capcom and created by Shinji Mikami, the game series has been influenced by George A. Romero’s Dead movies. The games have sold over 30 million copies as of February 2006.  As of 2007, The series consists of six games that are considered canon to the main story, as well as seven spin-off side story games.

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Diva reports that filming on the long-gestating X-Files 2 will begin December 10th in Vancouver.

Series creator Chris Carter will direct from a script co-written by Frank Spotnitz. 

The movie is a sequel to the 1998 sci-fi film based on the television series of the same name with David Duchovny returning as Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson reprising the role of Special Agent Dana Scully.  Carter has described the project as ‘a really scary horror, like a stand-alone episode’.  

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The double-length Battlestar Galactica movie Razor is set to premiere in movie houses in eight major US cities two weeks before it debuts on network television.

According to Variety, the free theater showings take place Nov. 12 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas and Seattle. Four theaters (Palmdale, Huntington Beach, Orange and Ventura) will participate in the Los Angeles area, with each screening the episode twice, beginning at 7 p.m.

The SCI FI Channel event is sponsored by Microsoft’s upcoming science fiction role-playing game Mass Effect, which is rated mature. Consequently, moviegoers will have to be 17 years of age and older to attend the screenings.

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Warner Bros. has appointed Greg Berlanti to direct the live-action take on DC Comic’s Green Lantern, reports Variety. 

Berlanti has previously worked as a writer and executive producer on character-driven TV series like Dirty Sexy Money, Brothers & Sisters, Everwood, Jack & Bobby and Dawson’s Creek. He previously directed the 2000 film The Broken Hearts Club. Berlanti will write the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green (who’ve both worked on Marvel comics in the past).

Green Lantern centers around Hal Jordan, a second-generation test pilot who is charged with protecting a sector of the universe.

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