The fourth movie based on the Resident Evil game franchise has won the weekend box office war, pulling in almost $28 million. Resident Evil Afterlife features 3D, and looks to become the highest grossing film in the series. The reviews however, have been less than stellar. In fact, they’ve been quite crappy, as Resident Evil Afterlife only has a 17% rating on RottenTomatoes. Which is bad, in case you don’t know.

A new Resident Evil trilogy has spawned, beginning with the new Resident Evil: Afterlife film. It turns out that the entire movie will be in 3D. Paul W.S. Anderson, director and writer of the film, had a few words to say about the movie:

“I always envisioned Resident Evil as a trilogy of films,” Anderson said. “And we’ve been very lucky where it’s a trilogy where the audience has built and built. I wanted to kick off a brand new trilogy. I’m really excited we’re doing it [in 3-D] and we’re using the same camera system [James] Cameron used for Avatar. There are a lot of exciting things about this one. I don’t regard it as Resident Evil 4, I regard it as a re-tooling and rebirth of the entire franchise.”

Details are still scarce at the moment, but we know that Milla Jovovich will return as Alice. Resident Evil: Afterlife will be hitting cinemas September 17, 2010.

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