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Q: Well, are we seeing a more aggressive Alice?
"Just as aggressive as ever. Always really super aggressive and she still is but now it's even more so. I think there's a relaxation in this one for her as a character that she hasn't had in the other movies because in a way she's earned some freedom. She's taking advantage of it and making some good relationships within the movie."
Q: Is there any other action hero you'd like to play?
"Gosh, I feel like I'm sort of at the limit that I could do action wise. It would be almost disloyal to Alice to be another action Heroine so I'm kind of just doing independent films and comedies and fun things that just help me kind of grow as an actress and get better for the next Resident Evil."
Q: What's next for you?
"Well, I've got a movie that I'm working on right now called Dirty Girl which is fun. It's a comedy, not an adult film, okay? It's with a child. I'm working with a child. I'm working with Juno Temple, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Macy, Tim McGraw, a really wonderful cast of people, really fun. I play Juno Temple's mom which is really funny. I'm like an Oklahoma girl that had a baby at 16. Stone, which is pretty crazy, man. I just watched it the other night actually. It's not for everybody but it's a pretty crazy movie. It's very tense, very dramatic, just deep. It's about a man who's in prison and he's trying to convince his parole officer to pretty much say, "Look, I've done my time. Are you the only one that can judge me? How can you judge me? You've never done anything wrong." It's really talking about good and evil and where we stand in life."
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I'm guessing we're going to be seeing a lot more of her as she promotes the fourth 'Resident Evil' film, along with Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller. I like all three of them, so I'm looking forward to reading their interviews.
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Milla - who is married to director Paul W. S. Anderson - said: "She's not going to be a working child. For me it's kind of creepy, the whole working kid kind of thing. "We were struggling financially, we were immigrants from Russia and we really needed to succeed. My mom saw talent in me and she wanted to make the best and most out of it. "There is no real use for Ever to work. I definitely want my daughter to just be a child. Work hard in school and find your passion, slowly."
As well as not wanting Ever to work, Milla, 34, is planning to scale back her own career commitments to spend more time with her family. She told People magazine: "When I'm not working, I want to be with my baby. The multitasking-Milla is a thing of the past. "I'm about prioritising now. I can't do all the modelling and movies that I want and still have time for my baby and my family."
However, Milla admits it can be difficult spending time with her daughter outdoors because the presence of photographers "p**ses off" other parents, meaning she has to send Ever to the park with her nanny.
She explained: "She's like, 'Momma come to the park with me,' and I say, 'When Momma goes to the park, all the photographers come, so you go and play with your friends.' It gets really tense at the park. "She's getting used to photographers but she says, 'I want to break them. Oh camera. I want to break them.' Sometimes I don't even see them and she spots them, like, from a mile away."
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Even generous with her fans, Milla Jovovich has via her Twitter account @MillaJovovich posted a fourth picture of her on the set of Abe Sylvia’s Dirty Girl, for which filming has been ongoing since late March. In this latest pic, Milla poses for a shot with co-star William H. Macy, with whom she was previously set to work on Keep Coming Back, an independent film that eventually fell through (reportedly due to financing difficulties).
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Just a quick heads-up that according to this interview with actor Julian McMahon, Julien Magnat’s face-blindness thriller Faces in the Crowd will begin filming with McMahon and Milla Jovovich in early May in Winnipeg, Canada. From Winnipeg Free Press:
Milla Jovovich and Julian McMahon are scheduled to come to Winnipeg by May 1 for a scheduled five-week shoot of the serial killer thriller Faces in the Crowd. [...] [Jovovich] will play a woman afflicted with “face blindness” after surviving an attack by a maniac. McMahon will play a cop on the trail of the killer.
Winnipeg production company Frantic Films will be co-producing with Minds Eye Entertainment, Radar Films and Forecast Pictures. It will be McMahon’s second film shoot in Winnipeg. The Nip/Tuck star shot the Shannen Doherty TV movie Another Day here in 2001. In 2007, the Sydney-born actor hilariously referred to Winnipeg as “the weirdest place on Earth,” during a press junket for the Sandra Bullock movie Premonition.
“It’s a great city. Great place. Weird place, though. It’s cold for nine months of the year and nobody goes out,” he said. “You can’t go out. You can’t, I swear to God. Your eyeballs freeze over!”
"She's nicer, I think,. She is a nice person, and she's fun. I think now that she's defeated the control that Umbrella has on her; she's kind of more of a regular person in the sense that she's not so scared to make ties with people and become friends with people because she knows that they're going to be killed by Umbrella if they're close to her. It gives her a new freedom as a human being to just be more open to people around her, which I think is great, because the last few films, she has been so closed off and trying to deal with the virus and deal with this satellite control that they have, so it's made her much more of a loner. I think in this one she opens up more and is able to accept people into her life, which is wonderful."
"I was writing the script before the game came. Once the game came out, it had huge elements that were already in the screenplay. Capcom is so funny. Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom, it's like seeing the Umbrella Corporation. They won't give you straight answer about anything. So I kind of new they would tell me that Wesker was in the game, kind of, but never really confirming it. Sure enough, he was the main villain and he was the main villain in the movie, as well. Completely by coincidence, a large chunk of this movie takes place in a big ship and there was the ship in "Resident Evil 5". We have an awful lot of stuff that they already put into "Resident Evil 5". So I did a whole big pass on the script to bring it more in line with the imagery from the latest game because I felt the latest game was fantastic. I think it kind of reinvented the video game franchise. I wanted to take a lot of it, frankly, kind of steal from it and put it into the movie. There is a whole fight scene with Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller that's taken almost shot by shot from "Resident Evil 5". It's the one when Chris and Shiva are fighting Wesker. So we're putting Claire in there instead so it's brother and sister fighting against Wesker. So what's great in the game is its one continuous shot where the camera rotates around Wesker fighting the two and he kicks their asses. They never cut which of course, you can do in animation. It's a bit more difficult in live action. Se we're probably going to shoot the fight in 10 different segments then seam it together in visual effects. So the finished effect will be as if the camera never stops rotating around."
"I have an incredible life. I get to come to this set every day, act like a kid... everyone feels like a kid on this set. Guns are going hot! Zombies are coming out! You've gotta love it. We have the family together, we get to spend so much time with our baby. I have friends who hardly see their kids until the weekend. We get to see our daughter every day at lunch, and every night before sleep. We have her on LA time, so she gets to stay up later. By the time we get home from work, we have a few hours to play. It's hard when we are both working on separate projects. Next year when I go off on a new project, daddy's not going to be there. It sucks."
How different is it for you to shoot in 3D?
"It's pretty interesting. I got punched in the head the other day because you have to get super-close to make [a shot] work. In a normal 2D screen, you aren't seeing the same depth, so they don't see that a punch is a complete miss."
We’ve furthermore embedded a couple of videos of Milla from the panel and the WonderCon “red carpet” below. Kicking things off with this great arrival interview with Milla:
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Have a look at this very interesting, Resident Evil: Afterlife- as well as more generally oriented interview with Milla Jovovich from FEARnet, as conducted on the set of Afterlife in Toronto, Canada late last year. In the interview, Milla talks among other things about her Afterlife co-star Shawn “Wesker” Roberts, how it was coming back for another Resident Evil film, stuntwork, how she’d like to raise her daughter (the now 2-year-old Ever Gabo Anderson, with Afterlife writer-director and husband, Paul W.S. Anderson)… and not being able to do the splits. It’s a great interview!
Read the article in full at FEARnet.com; excerpts follow:
Shawn Roberts is a relative newcomer to films, but he has a pretty plum role. How is he to work with?
We are so lucky to have him. He’s really got the character down, and he’s really going for it with the accent. You could tell that he really watched the game. And he’s such a nice guy, but he gets on set and he’s just stoney-faced. One time, he sat on his Wesker throne for at least 15 minutes without moving. He has the glasses on, and at one point I was like, “Shawn. Shawn!” He said [seriously], “What?” I asked, “Are you sleeping under there?” He was so still for so long I thought he might be asleep!How different is it for you to shoot in 3D?
It’s pretty interesting. I got punched in the head the other day because you have to get super-close to make [a shot] work. In a normal 2D screen, you aren’t seeing the same depth, so they don’t see that a punch is a complete miss.Is your daughter old enough to really have a concept of what you do?
Well, mommy has a lot of swords around the house. Practice swords – wooden swords. So she will see me practice. One of her first words was “sabla,” which is “sword” in Russian. She always wants to play with mommy’s swords.So do you think she will follow in your footsteps?
I definitely want her to do martial arts and dance and all that. I think it’s really important. She can do the splits right now, and she’s only two. I want her to do the splits every day and not know what it is like to feel pain when doing the splits. I can’t do the splits. But my daughter will grow up, able to do the splits! I want her to have a sense of confidence, I want her to feel comfortable in her own skin. I want her to walk into a room with her shoulders back and her chest out. You know, like Tony Montana [from Scarface]. At the same time, I think she will be a protector. I think she has the potential to be a bully. She is a very strong kid – they call it “high spirited.” That is the diplomatic term for it. But I think martial arts will take that strength and energy and make her a protector rather than a bully.[...] I got a pretty serious injury on RE 2, during training. I went to do a kick and missed the target and ended up doing the splits, which I’ve never been able to do. I tore a muscle and it is something that still bothers me to this day. But I’ve been lucky: never broken a bone, never stung by a bee.
Co-star Ali Larter also talked to FEARnet on the set of Afterlife last Fall, the interview which is now available on their website. Be sure to give it a look as well, as she among other things talks about what it was like to work with Milla on the new film.
Finally, don’t forget to check out the newly released official teaser trailer for Afterlifeif you haven’t yet. The film is currently slated for a September 10 2010 U.S. premiere.
As we predicted, although the official online trailer release for Resident Evil: Afterlife, as set to premiere at 2:15 PM today via the MySpace Horror Movies Blog, is still some hours ahead, a cam-corded version of the trailer has already leaked onto YouTube from yesterday’s WonderCon 2010 Word Premiere.
The video is uneven seeing as it’s been recorded from a 3D presentation, so you’ll definitely want to watch any official, full quality releases that surface online today and later, however if you just can’t wait until then, here’s the leaked trailer embedded for viewing. And it’s mind-blowingly awesome, you guys!
This is gonna be so good, you guys! Just listen to the audience responses in the background. Stay tuned for official trailer release and more WonderCon coverage!
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Have a look at this interesting interview with Resident Evil: Afterlife writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson from MTV.com, about working on the latest installment in the popular zombie film franchise. In the interview, Anderson talks about his upcoming 3D debut and the transition process, working on the film with his wife, Milla Jovovich, and how he feels the upcoming film brings something new to the franchise.
Read the full interview at MTV.com, excerpt follows:
MTV: In 2002, your Resident Evil became a zombie classic and quite possibly the best video game movie ever made. Then you chose to write and produce 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse and 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction. Why did you feel that now was the time to return as director?
Paul W.S. Anderson: Well, Resident Evil is a franchise I’m hugely excited about and always have been. I regretted not directing the other ones; I always wanted to, but I had scheduling conflicts. This time around, I thought, “You know what? I miss directing Resident Evil, I want to direct another movie, and I’m going to.” So I made it happen.MTV: What did you see as the biggest challenge this time around?
Anderson: Well, it’s the fourth film, so what are you going to do that’s fresh? How are you going to invigorate the franchise? How are you going to keep it alive? How are you going to keep the audience you already have and make that audience grow and reach out to new people? My intention was to make this like T2 was to The Terminator. It’s the same franchise, but it’s bigger and it’s improved and it’s making a large conceptual leap.MTV: You’ve worked with your lovely wife Milla on all these films, but this is the first “Resident Evil” you’ve shot since she gave birth to your daughter. Now that she’s a mom, was Milla less eager to do some of the more hard-core stunts?
Anderson: No, it was the other way around, in fact. I have to keep her away from dangerous things on the movie set, because she’ll do absolutely anything and wants to do everything. There’ll be times when I say, “Look, you just cannot do this.”MTV: Over the course of these movies, she’s done some pretty insane stuff. Anderson: There’s no stopping her. She is fearless, and she is very committed. That’s the great thing about Milla — she really commits to what she does, and that’s why I think she is so good in these movies; she sells the reality of it. She’s there, 150 percent. She believes in the characters, she’s committed to the films and she wants to really deliver for the audience.
Just a quick heads-up that Sony Screen Gems have put up the official website for Resident Evil: Afterlife at www.residentevil-movie.com, or rather a placeholder for one, seeing as there is absolutely no real content on the site as of yet. You’ll want to bookmark the link anyway, however, for possible future updates, particularly in view of this weekend’s trailer premiere .International fans might also be interested in the film’s worldwide release dates, as listed on the new website.
Don’t forget the Afterlife trailer, which premieres in 3D today at the 2010 WonderCon in San Fransisco, CA, will be followed tomorrow by a 2D repeat and panel discussion with writer-director Anderson, Milla and co-star Ali Larter, not to mention the 2:15 PM official online release of the trailer via the MySpace Horror Movies Blog. Lots to look forward to tomorrow!
Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the popular zombie film franchise from writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson, stars Milla Jovovich as Alice opposite Ali Larter, Spencer Locke and Wentworth Miller. The film, the first in the franchise to be presented in 3D, is currently slated for a September 10 2010 U.S. theatrical release.
As many of you will know, the Olatunde Osunsanmi-directed alien encounter thriller The Fourth Kind, in which Milla Jovovich stars as psychologist Abigail “Abbey” Tyler, was released on North American (Region) and European (Region 2) DVD and Blu-Ray earlier this month. And now we have the HQ caps! Today, the gallery has been updated with 1,430 site-exclusive Blu-Ray HD screen captures of Milla in the film. These are in extremely high quality and were not easy to obtain, so we do hope you enjoy this treat from us!
Although The Fourth Kind was received poorly in the United States upon its November 2009 release, I personally don’t think it was half as bad as some reviewers and critics wanted to make it seem. Although certainly not without its flaws, I think a good deal of people disliked the film not because of the film itself but because they didn’t take kindly to the “hoax” regarding the film supposedly being based on a true story. Setting that aside, the film is fairly enjoyable and at times genuinely creepy, my only real complaint there being that I wish those creepy moments had been a few more. Milla, however, delivers a great, strong and emotional performance and as one of the highlights of the film is worth a watch just by itself.
Following the Friday, April 2 World Premiere of the 3D trailer (also a ticketed event), the trailer will be replayed in 2D on Saturday, which will be followed by a Q & A session with writer-director Anderson, Larter and Milla. Milla is a confirmed guest. From the WonderCon website:
1:45-2:15 Screen Gems: Resident Evil: Afterlife
In case you missed last night’s exclusive WonderCon World Premiere at the Metreon of the 3-D trailer for Screen Gems’ fourth film in this fan favorite franchise, writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson along with stars Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter will be on hand to show it again (in 2D) and answer your questions. Esplanade Ballroom
For more information on registration for this year’s WonderCon, please visit the WonderCon website here. The annual event is held in San Fransisco, CA.
Don’t forget the 3D trailer for Afterlife, written and directed by Milla’s husband Paul W.S. Anderson, premieres today at the 2010 WonderCon in San Fransisco, CA. Although the trailer will premiere online already tomorrow, fans too excited to wait might want to keep an eye on YouTube should someone upload a cam-corded version from WonderCon already today. Either way, be sure to log on to the MySpace Horror Movies Blog tomorrow at 2:15 PM for the official online trailer release.
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