<![CDATA[io9: milla jovovich]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: milla jovovich]]> http://io9.com/tag/millajovovich http://io9.com/tag/millajovovich <![CDATA[First Look At Alice On Set For Resident Evil: Afterlife]]> Finally, here's our first good look at everyone's favorite Umbrella Corp resistance leader, Alice. Take a peek at Milla Jovovich and the cast of the next Resident Evil film, looking bad as hell. Plus on-set reports from Milla herself. Spoilers...

First off, it's so good to see Milla in her ass-kicking Alice gear again. We can't wait to find out what happened to her sexy naked clone army and what new mind powers she'll have in this movie. Also, you can see Ali Larter — so it's nice that she survived the last movie. Still, it looks like they never made it to Alaska, ah well.

For a better look check out all the strange white hospital like garb over at Shock Til You Drop, which has a bigger picture. Let's go ahead and assume that these white-dressed extras are part of some exceedingly excellent experiment group.

Meanwhile, Milla has been Twittering up a storm while on set, and I have to say, it sounds like fantastic, violence heavy, mayhem. Exactly how we like our Resident Evil. Here are a few highlights, including a couple items we touched on in yesterday's morning spoilers:

"When Ali and i were doing the fight in the shower block, i had to point my shotgun into camera and shoot...but when i did, the glass protecting the camera completely shattered! that is definitely going on the gag reel for the dvd! lol!"

"and its supposed to be super heroic with all of us shooting thru a wall of undead as we run towards a potential escape route..."

"They were of the big action sequence with Alice and Claire fighting THE EXECUTIONER who in reality is an 8 ft. tall heavy weight boxer! He has a HUGE axe and we're in a prison shower, so every time he swings the axe, showers explode! So thru the whole scene its literally raining! so beautiful!"

"I fly a small aircraft in this film and they did a shot of it landing on the boat we're on the night before last and get this, all the people who live in the skyscrapers around the harbor phoned 911 reporting a plane crash on the ship! how rad! they got HUNDREDS of call!"

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<![CDATA[Is Milla Jovovich's Alien Problem Real Or Fake?]]> Alien abduction movie The Fourth Kind builds on several strange sleeping disturbances in Alaska, all involving an owl, and maybe an alien. The film mixes "documentary footage" with reenacted bits. Will you buy the hype? Check out our first clips.

Check out these clips and weigh in on whether you actually believe any of this alleged "documentary footage." Is this film too much, or is there always room for more aliens?



The Fourth Kind will be in theaters November 6th.

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<![CDATA[Resident Evil's Alice's Heads To Infected Hollywood For Bloody Revenge]]> Last we heard about the next Resident Evil movie, Milla Jovovich was going to team up with Wentworth Miller inside an infected prison, but now the official synopsis is out. And Paul W.S. Anderson is back in the director's chair.

Sony Screen Gems finally announced the official synopsis. Sounds like the prison we heard about earlier inside the the burning remnants of Los Angeles may be a trap. But I'm loving that Alice is going after the evil Umbrella Corp, where the last film left off. Kill em all Alice!

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

And it's official: Paul W.S. Anderson is coming back to direct the fourth film in the series he launched. The film will be released August 27th, 2010.

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<![CDATA[Prison Break's Miller Heads Back To Zombie Filled Jail For Resident Evil's Afterlife]]> Milla Jovovich just got some end-of-the-world eye-candy competition. Wentworth Miller has joined the next Resident Evil film, but the Prison Break star is still stuck in jail in LA... which has been burning for three years.

In an interview with Black Film new cast member Bodjoe Kodjoe talked about his latest role in the next in the long line of Umbrella Corp films. Sadly there is no mention of the cloned Alice army, but he does reveal that the movie takes place in LA:

Boris Kodjoe: : I play the leader of the survivors in LA. Milla Jovovich's character, Alice, is roaming the world looking for survivors and she's wound up in LA, which has been burning for three years. She comes across an LA jail surrounded be these half-dead, uhh…[zombies]. Yeah, they're those monsters, what are they called? Anyway, she comes across the jail and there's a couple of survivors and she lands on top of the roof and partners up with me to fight the guys that are coming after them. We're trying to get all of the survivors out of the jail to safety. We're starting next week, actually.

He goes on to reveal that Ali Larter will also be returning and Miller's new role is someone who already was in prison when everything went down.

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<![CDATA[Resident Evil's Army of Alices Get a Preboot]]> Once the army of short-skirted Alices roundhouse kicks the flood of zombies back into oblivion, Milla's story gets a reboot. New Resident Evil flicks will focus on the original underground movement to destroy Umbrella and the T-Virus.

Bloody Disgusting has confirmed a new crop of Resident Evils is on the way after Milla Jovovich's final 3D showdown, Resident Evil 4: Afterlife. The next feature will be all about the secret military operation that tried to infiltrate and destroy Umbrella Corp. It's currently titled Resident Evil Begins.

This is a fantastic idea. Umbrella and Raccoon City will never get old to me, but I have to admit, once they gave Milla mind powers, my mind checked out a bit as well. Good to see this franchise getting back to its conspiracy theory roots.

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<![CDATA[Milla Jovovich's Real-Life Alien Abduction Trailer Is Freaky As Hell]]> Milla Jovovich's The Fourth Kind is based on "actual case studies" from a group of mentally troubled patients in Alaska who've been stalked by aliens. Even though the new trailer's "documentary footage" looks deliberately fake, it's still creepy.

The film places reenacted footage side-by-side with "actual case footage" from doctor patient sessions with the alien abduction victims. You know it's true, because Milla says so in the beginning, so clearly that's enough for you and me, because when a famous person says something it becomes a fact. And yet not even Milla's sweet words can get us past the super stagey real life patient scenes. Is there a cover-up behind the cover-up? Would Milla lie to us?


Here's the official synopsis:

1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document ... until now.

Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where-mysteriously since the 1960s-a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered.

Here in this remote region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.

Using never-before-seen archival footage that is integrated into the film, The Fourth Kind exposes the terrified revelations of multiple witnesses. Their accounts of being visited by alien figures all share disturbingly identical details, the validity of which is investigated throughout the film.

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<![CDATA[Serial Killings Lead To A Surreal Luc Besson Nightmare]]> Director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) is making another science fiction thriller, starring Korean mega-star Dong Kun-Jang (Tae Guk Gi — The Brotherhood Of War). The as-yet-untitled action movie is based on a novel by a South Korean professor about a serial killer in New York, whose actions spark a series of unforeseen consequences. Milla Jovovich and Natalie Portman are "expected" to co-star in the French-Korean co-production, according to reports. [China Daily]

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<![CDATA[Why Alice Ain't Married Anymore]]> I adored Resident Evil: Extinction, the third in the series of movies starring Milla Jovovich as the bio-engineered, satellite-controlled ninja Alice. She has to fight evil computers, plus all the zombies created by a virus that's escaped from the evil R&D mad science outfit Umbrella Corporation. But to fully appreciate why Alice is so badass, you have to go back to the first Resident Evil movie and watch her throw off the shackles of the man she's been programmed to love.

I've got two short clips for you here. One comes as the movie begins, after Alice's mind has been wiped by a chemical released by the AI running Umbrella. She starts to remember her "past" in little bits as she enters the Umbrella complex to find out what's gone wrong. There's this early, creepy moment where she remembers that she was supposedly married, but her wedding ring is "property of Umbrella corporation," which makes it seem as if her marriage memories are just implants to keep her in line. So in the second scene, towards the end of the flick, we discover her "husband" is one of the bad guys, and she has to get rid of him with her rediscovered superpowers. This scene is the ultimate breakup moment. Now you know why Alice has serious relationship baggage. [Resident Evil via IMDB]

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<![CDATA[Will Milla Jovovich Pee On Shia LaBoeuf's Head?]]> The Internet is buzzing with the rumor that Fifth Element star Milla Jovovich could be cast as the first female transformer in Transformer 2. More specifically, rumor has it she's going to play a sexy Decepticon. We'd love to see Milla playing a villain, even if it's only voice work, and her throaty snarl might help increase the threat level of the hitherto bland movie Decepticons. Meanwhile, Rainn Wilson will play a college professor (who wears leather pants?). [MTV]

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<![CDATA[Ultraviolet Goes Noir In Anime Remake]]> Can an animated reboot make sense of Kurt Wimmer's Ultraviolet, two years later? Wimmer's visually stunning vampire-plague movie, set in a future dystopia where everything is always color-coordinated, became a confusing mess at least partly due to studio interference. And now acclaimed anime director Osamu Dezaki (Aim For The Ace!, Lupin III) is supervising an adaptation, called Ultraviolet: Code 044. It premieres on the Animax satellite channel in Japan on July 1. No word on when it hits the U.S., but here's a teaser trailer, which shows a much moodier, less candy-colored version of the saga. [Animax]

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<![CDATA[Which Overexposed Scifi Actor Should Take A Nice Break?]]> You keep seeing the same faces over and over again in science fiction. At first it's like, "Oh, there's my old friend Summer Glau. I'm so glad she's getting work." And then, it slowly turns into, "How many maniacs of science can Jeffrey Combs play before he actually falls asleep in mid-speech and lights his hair on fire with his bunsen burner?" Especially when people like Will Smith admit they're only doing scifi because it's commercial. Click through to vote for the most overexposed science fiction actor.

I resisted the temptation to include people like Katee Sackhoff, who's only done two shows: Battlestar Galactica and Bionic Woman. Or Scott Bakula. Or half the cast of Firefly, who've gone on to be on other things. I also decided to leave out Bruce Willis and Cilian Murphy, who have been in a lot of scifi but aren't really "scifi actors" in the way that Will Smith is. Who would you have included on this poll?

In any case, you needn't feel guilty about voting for a good actor in this poll. Everyone here is a good actor, but maybe one of these people should work in other genres for a while. (Which, to be fair, Smith did for a bit.)

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<![CDATA[Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 2)]]> Milla Jovovich's weird strappy leotard and crazy talk beguile Bruce Willis into helping her jet away from the cops in his flying taxi. He swerves through CGI tunnels at a breakneck pace. It's another one of the greatest car chases in science fiction, according to us as well as you, the readers. Click through for more hyperkinetic clips.

I wasn't able to include all of your suggestions in this list because I ran out of time. And I was already frantically sourcing clips from Fifth Element and Deja Vu when I posted part one yesterday. But this includes most of your suggestions as well as a few surprises:

The Fifth Element (1997). This is basically just an old-fashioned chase. You have a cop scanner-blocker instead of a radar-detector, and the cop cars have machine guns on their hoods. But then it ends in the traditional way, with Bruce scooting onto the train tracks and avoiding a freight train, which the cops crash into, spilling cartons onto their hood. You can practically hear the banjo music.

Deja Vu (2006). Denzel Washington is wearing a headset which lets him see four days into the past. He drives around looking at the past (night-time) through one eye, and the present (daytime) through the other. He's chasing the past movements of a terrorist who blew up part of New Orleans three days ago. And of course he wreaks major havoc in the present while he tries to chase a phantom from the past. It's an amazingly brilliant moment in an otherwise dull movie. Washington drives a Hummer H1 modeled on a real robot car, the H1ghlander. An autonomous robot car built by Carnegie Mellon for the 2005 DARPA challenge, the H1ghlander features LIDAR laser-ranging units, an intertial navigation system and SICK laser sensors. (I have no idea what SICK laser sensors are, but they sound hard-core.) Director Tony Scott used a Porche SUV with a special robot camera arm that can film at 180 MPH, for this sequence.


Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
(1999). Because you demanded it, here's the pod-racing scene. Wacky aliens, goggles, funny zappy lightning running between the poles of the pod, zoomy video-gamey action. It's pretty kinetic, and one of the few moments in Menace that isn't bogged down by weird ethnic alien people talking too much, or grasshopper-headed fight robots fighting.

Matrix: Reloaded (2002). Sure, a lot of this movie felt like a powerpoint presentation about fate vs. free will and the meaning of something or other. But it was almost all worth it for the giant freeway pileup, where Neo and Trinity try to get the Keymaker to safety. The white-dredlock guys have guns that magically make the cars flip over, and then they can turn into carjacking ghosts. Meanwhile, Agent Smith can jump onto cars and smush/flip them without slowing down. Here's the clip:

Terminator 3 (2003). Like we said, cyborgs just make better car crashes. Every one of the Terminator films has an awesome car chase at some point. In the first movie, Arnie steals a cop car and tries to run Reese and Sarah down. In the second movie, the evil Terminator is in a giant tanker truck trying to run down the Connors' pickup truck, but Arnie jumps onto the tanker and manages to flip it over, so it skids on its side into a steel factory and bursts. But the best car-chase spectacle of all is in Terminator 3, where a female Terminator chases John Connor's van while Arnie follows on motorcycle. Oh, and half a dozen cop cars also try to catch John Connor. Laser hand-blasts, crane-street-fu, Arnie carjacking a firetruck after he gets splatted on the windshield... it's all pretty awesome.

Next (2007). Nicholas Cage plays Johnny Cadillac, who can see two minutes into the future and adjust his actions accordingly. As any normal person would, he uses this ability to drive really fast and lead the cops on a crazy-ass chase through the streets of Las Vegas. It's based on a Philip K. Dick story, so you know it has to be brilliant. Right?

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<![CDATA[Must See: The Fifth Element]]> Fifth%20Element.jpg Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.

Title: The Fifth Element
Date: 1997

Vitals: A babe from another dimension teaches a hypercapitalist, urbanized world that love is the answer to all their problems - especially if love is wearing nothing more than bandages on her tits. Also, there are a bunch of flying car chase scenes.

Famous names: Luc Besson, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

Crunchy goodness: 2

Design breakthrough: Sometimes a breakthrough is a beta test that turns out to be woefully wrong. The Fifth Element demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that nobody wants the future to look like it was designed by aging French fashionistas who still think it's racy to reference the Virgin Mary.

Copycats: Thankfully there was no Sixth Element, but Fifth Element did launch the career of the world's first-ever female action star - Milla Jovovich. Sure there have been other women who played action roles, but Jovovich is the only one to play solely action heroes (see her wildly popular Resident Evil series). Hopefully her action hero career will not follow the trajectory of Arnold Schwarzenegger's, because that would mean she'd have to star in a series of terrible comedies before becoming a homophobic politician.

Sights you'll never unsee: The costumes.


Fifth Element - Script, Multimedia, Character Descriptions...

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