Description of the project from the Government of Ontario website: 
“The Toronto International Film Festival will create an online experience with a multi-platform augmented reality game, “The Worlds of David Cronenberg.” This web application will allow users to explore items in the archive and use them in an interactive, online experience. The application is staged in phases that progress into an augmented reality experience and will use a combination of social media technologies, locative services and 3D-photo modeling technology in stylized social-media meets psychological-thriller game play.”

Get ready for twelve months full of Cronenberg. He just wrapped A DANGEROUS METHOD and is post on COSMOPOLIS. The perfect subject for an interactive body and mind video game experience? Absolutely!

Source: CinemaBlend, Government of Ontatio

Description (source: Konami):
Over 500 years have passed since a mortal named Bryce Boltzmann endured a life-altering tragedy at the hands of Astaroth, the Demon King. His wife murdered, left defeated and rendered immortal, he now moves through life without aspirations other than where he will find his next drink. Lending a hand to the clandestine group, the National Anti-Demon Agency(NADA), he pursues redemption through the extermination of demonic forces within the modern day world along with his agency partner, Arcadia.

NeverDead is a third person action/shooter offering a radically new game experience within the genre based on decapitation and regeneration. Lose any limb and still have the ability to endure the fight as death has already passed you by…

Here’s a look at the game’s features:

• Live forever and become immortal through a unique decapitation and regeneration mechanic that offers a different approach to 3^rd Person Action gameplay. Detach your arm and use it as an exploding detonation device against the enemy, or tear off your head and use it as a scout within the level design.
• Fight in critical situations making use of the hero’s immortality! Get electrocuted and shoot electric bullets, catch on fire and use your body as a light source, fight enemies in a hurricane or on the highway among passing cars and several other invigorating environments.
• Combination of various weaponry at your disposal including an array of guns for long-range attacks. Whip out the Butterly Blade to slash and destroy what is in front of you.
• Online co-operative and competitive “Challenges” against the enemy or each other. Play with up to 4 players and outwit those you’re going against using the decapitation/regeneration elements as strategy.
• Destroy the world you are in as wide-ranging destructible environments will influence how players take out the enemy. Large-scale destruction includes entire buildings, or smaller-scale destruction with pillars, the floor and interior wall sections.
• Enhance character abilities with an experience leveling system that ramps up player abilities, weapon power and unlocking content within the game.

Take a peek at the trailer and commentary from GameTrailers.com and share your thoughts below:

Our NEVERDEAD hero apparently paying tribute to Michael Myers in HALLOWEEN II (image courtesy Konami)

Milla Jovovich, one of the most prolific celebrity tweeters out there, took to her account once again this morning to drop some more hints about what to expect from the next installment of RESIDENT EVIL.  Here’s what she had to say:

Gmornin every1 where it’s morning! Gevening to all those where it’s evening! There’s a HUGE wire stunt 2day here at camp evil as guess what?! Im not allowed 2 do it! Aargh! It’s a 50 ft. Fly on a wire rig w a flip AND gunfire (sob) to kill a gynormous creature, but the set is too tight and my incredible stunt double -Jo Anne Leach- has to land in2 crash pads 2 make it and the insurance company and my husband said Absolutely NOT. I’m bummed but there u go. Safety first.the sequence is gonna KILL tho n no matter what Jo is my girl and she’s THE BEST, so trust me when u c it in the film it will b overwhelmingly awe inspiring! That’s my news of the morning. Gotta get hair n make up on.

This, coupled with a photo of a giant licker claw posted by Jovovich’s costar Boris Kodjoe, suggests that RETRIBUTION will feature some of the biggest, craziest monsters we’ve seen from the franchise.

The games certainly have their share of creatures from which to draw inspiration.  As a long-time devotee of the games, I’m hoping we might get some Las Plagas and El Gigante action in this sequel.

RESIDENT EVIL:  RETRIBUTION, from director Paul W.S. Anderson, opens September 14, 2012.

So today, instead of the typical “Milla Jovovich Tweets a Pic of Leon Kennedy’s New Scruffy Look” that we normally link to (although stay tuned for that), we thought we’d bring you the latest in the RE videogame world!

First off, check out the cool new trailer for RESIDENT EVIL: REVELATIONS, scheduled to be released on the Nintendo 3DS February 7.  The game promises to reunite series vets like Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine with a bevy of newcomers for an all-new, monster-filled RE title.  And one of these newcomers is apparently Peter Falk.

And though it’s not much to go on, a couple of voice actors had RESIDENT EVIL 6 listed under credits on their websites.  The first, Joe Cappelletti, has since removed the credit listing.  Wendy Mok, the other VO artist in question, is credited as Chinese Villager/zombie.  This has led many to speculate that the next numbered iteration of the franchise will take place in China.  It makes sense given the globe-trotting escapades of the previous couple of titles.  Thanks to Destructoid for the rumor.

That’s just one of the reasons to check out these new set videos from the actress.  The prolific Twitter user took to her account again today to give a brief tour of the set of  RESIDENT EVIL:  RETRIBUTION.  This time, Toronto has been done up to look like a Russian subway station.  No word on what this has to do with the plot, but having been an avid RESIDENT EVIL videogame player, I can’t help but think they might be taking cues from CODE VERONICA.  A barren, snow-covered country, something we’ve seen in other RE:R set videos, would fit in quite well with that game’s Antarctic setting.  Might we even get a peek at that game’s villain Alexia Ashford?  It’s far too early to know, but it could be an interesting direction for the series to take.

Check out the new set videos below, and be on the lookout for Jovovich’s husband and the film’s director Paul W.S. Anderson.  And if anyone knows Russian, we would welcome a translation in the comments section.

RETRIBUTION arrives September 14, 2012.

The videogame that allowed legions of players (myself included) tear apart cities like little pixelated Godzillas is being brought to the big screen by New Line Cinema.  John Rickard (FINAL DESTINATION) is set to produce.  The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop earlier today.

In the various incarnations of the game, players play as a giant lizard, a giant gorilla, or a giant werewolf to wreak as much destruction as they possibly can in a given time limit.  Good times.

With Guillermo Del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM officially in production, a GODZILLA reboot in the works,  and now RAMPAGE on the way, the world is going to be a pretty crowded place what with all the humongous monsters battling across the globe.

It’s amazing then that Del Toro was able to spare time to talk to Wired about all these various projects.  Some of the most tantalizing quotes regard RIM, including confirmation that Ron Perlman has indeed joined Charlie Hunnam in the cast, reuniting the SONS OF ANARCHY duo for the big screen.  Excerpts from the interview below:

We start shooting next Monday [Eds. note: Nov. 14] on Pacific Rim, which is a gigantic production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. We are wrapping production on a smaller, very powerful horror film called Mama, which I am producing. Chuck and I are working on a series of books that I can’t talk too much about. But we started on that about two weeks ago. I’m still working on animation at DreamWorks. I’m keeping myself pretty busy.

We are working with actors that I absolutely adore. Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It’s really, it’s a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters. We’re trying to create a world in which the characters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it would affect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea, etc.

No word on if Hunnam and Perlman will be doling out vigilante biker justice to the giant monsters…

Click here for the rest of the excellent interview, in which Del Toro discusses his inspiration for THE NIGHT ETERNAL, the development of his video game, the ability of a property to be grown across multiple platforms, and the fact that the first drafts of THE HAUNTED MANSION and THE HULK pilot are both turned in to the studios.

Ken Levine, creator of BIOSHOCK and head of Irrational Games, recently cast doubt on the possibility of a movie adaptation of the hit game franchise.  The interview arrives courtesy of Industry Gamers.

“We got very close to having it get made – we had a deal in place and a director. But for us there’s no burning [desire] to have a movie made just to get it made.  For us and for Take-Two, it’s really got to be something that will a) give the fans something that they want, and b) for those who don’t know BioShock, really introduce them to something that is consistent with the game, and is it going to be a good representation of the game.”

“There are differences between games and movies, no doubt, but the movie has to draw from the same DNA in terms of the world and the story beats.  But you know, we don’t have a need to get it made.”

The director Levine is referring to is likely Gore Verbinski (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), who was forced to walk away from the project a couple years back due to creative differences.  One of the key sticking points has always been the rating, with studios not opting to put up the budget for a hard R version of Rapture.

Time will tell if we’ll ever see Little Sisters, Andrew Ryan, or super-power bestowing Plasmids on movie screens anytime soon.  Until then, Mr. Levine, would you kindly release BIOSHOCK INFINITE immediately before I turn into a stark raving mad splicer in anticipation of the 2012 release?

Writer Evan Spiliotopoulos, who most recently was a writer on the upcoming SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNSTMAN, has been hired by Universal to work on ASTEROIDS, an adaptation of the classic Atari videogame.

The news comes from The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision, who even clues us in on what to expect from the movie:

The studio outbid other suitors for film rights to the simple, late-’70s Atari video game two years ago.The plotline for the film adaptation has evolved into the story of two estranged brothers that must team up to save Earth from an alien race.

Finally, a movie that will focus on the thrilling aspect of how it feels to play an arcade game with two players instead of one.  Meanwhile, Universal will also be releasing BATTLESHIP in May, based off the hit board game, and continue to not make THE DARK TOWER or Guillermo Del Toro’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.