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The subtitling of Paul W. S. Anderson’s Resident Evil franchise can be a little difficult to keep track of (though not as difficult as the game series, where a numbered installment only comes along once in a blue moon), so a quick recap might be useful before discussing the latest news regarding Resident Evil 6. The film series has so far been roughly divided into two trilogies, the first consisting of Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction, with the saga continuing in Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: Retribution. At this point, we probably need a mnemonic by which to remember all the subtitles.

Despite having confirmation of the release date for Resident Evil 6 back in , it was not yet certain whether Anderson would choose to direct once again or if his schedule would require him to delegate the job as he did with Apocalypse and Extinction. Now it’s official – Paul W.S. Anderson will direct Resident Evil 6.

First Showing has confirmed that Anderson will definitely be returning as both director and producer and will begin shooting the film this fall. Perhaps it’s fitting that – having produced all of the Resident Evil films so far directed three of them – Anderson should be at the helm for what is supposed to be the concluding chapter of the second trilogy (and based on the poor critical reception and declining box office profits, it might also be the final installment of the franchise).

As far as we know, Anderson is still attached to direct an adaptation of another video game, Castlevania. He’s also lined up to direct Pompeii, a disaster movie based on the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed an entire city in AD 79. Pompeii was originally supposed to start filming in spring 2012, but now appears to be back on track with Kit Harrington recently announced to play the lead role.

No plot details for RE6 have yet been released, but fans of the existing Resident Evil films will probably have a good idea of what to expect. Milla Jovovich is set to return as Alice, and the perennial bad guys of the Umbrella Corporation will no doubt be back again, joined by the undead and mutated horrors that they've unleashed upon the world. Anderson plans to shoot Resident Evil 6 in 3D, as he did with Afterlife and Retribution.

Whether or not the franchise will rise once more, in the form of a reboot or further additions to the existing saga, will no doubt depend largely on the box office success of Resident Evil 6. Despite the occasional Razzie nomination, the Resident Evil films have been fairly reliable in terms of profit, with the last installment grossing over $220m worldwide.

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Resident Evil 6 opens in theaters on September 12th, 2014.

Not only is Cora dead, but Snow White killed her. What is going to become of our beloved Snow, who always has been so good?

Ginnifer Goodwin has already teased that what Snow did is “going to shake her self-identity, her self-definition ... she doesn't know who she is. I think that actually opens a lot up for her. She can get in touch with a more evolved way of protecting herself and her family.”

We cannot wait to see the fall-out from Snow -- Regina is going to be on the warpath. 

Speaking of Regina, "The Miller's Daughter" gave us all a glimpse into young Cora's life before the birth of her daughter, beautifully demonstrated by guest star Rose McGowan.

We had to ask McGowan -- was Cora truly in love with Rumpelstiltskin?

“I think so. Yeah, I do,” says Rose. And did he love Cora back? “ es. Could be ego speaking, but I think so.”

McGowan adds that her one request in doing the show was to act opposite Robert Carlyle. 

“When the creators approached me, I requested that my scenes be with Robert Carlyle ... the scene that we have where we're kind of ending things, it was a marvelous scene. Very emotional,” says McGowan. “ t was everything that I wanted to do with him as an actor, which was great.”

In the episode, it is implied that Cora and Rumple will never have any children together and that Regina is Prince Henry's daughter. But the way the family tree has been shaping upon this show, we wonder if Regina is actually Rumple's daughter. 

“It's possible. Anything is possible in that world,” says McGowan. “I think it does leave it open-ended, I think you're very canny.”

What do you think, "OUAT" fans? Is Rumpelstiltskin both Henry's real grandfather on one side and adopted grandfather on the other?

Source: Zap2It.com

ETonline: Were you previously a fan of the show?

Rose McGowan: I had seen the show, but not been able to follow it because of traveling. Ginnifer Goodwin owns my old house, so we've always been friendly -- then the creators, invited me into their office and asked if I'd ever consider doing something on their show, and I wanted to ... as long as I could play some high level acting tennis with Robert Carlyle. We had a tremendous time. He's an amazingly talented actor and anytime you get to play act with someone of that caliber, you jump at it.

ETonline: Considering you're playing a younger version of a pre-existing character, did you watch Barbara Hershey did to inform your performance?

McGowan: I did watch quite a bit of her stuff, and then I threw it all away. I let it sink in and land where it was going to in my pea brain, but then I forgot about it. I didn't try to match her at all, so if it's there, that's just a result of my previous research.

ETonline: I also have to say, the costumes you get to wear are kind of next level.

McGowan: Oh, he kills me. Eduardo Castro is the costume designer, and he actually costumed me when I played Ann-Margret in the Elvis miniseries, so I'd already met him and what they serve up on that show is spectacular. It's like doing Marie Antoinette back in the golden days of film.

ETonline: It's been 7 years since Charmed ended, and 7 years since you did anything on TV. Are those two things correlated?

McGowan: It took me a long time to want to set foot back on another TV set because Charmed was such a special and long experience for me. I had a great time making the show, but there's no balance in your life. You're so tied down doing a TV series; I didn't see my friends, I didn't see my family or really do anything but work for five years, practically. So after it ended, I started traipsing around the world and not caring that much about being tied down to Los Angeles. But everyone on [the OUAT] set is so amazing, I'm ready to do another TV show as a result of the experience.

ETonline: Like Charmed, Once Upon A Time features a lot of greenscreen work....

McGowan: [laughs] Yeah, so have a lot of my movies. I've done some of my best work to a tennis ball that's hanging off of a metal clip. Literally sobbing my heart out to a green tennis ball. For some reason, that's how it shook out for me.

ETonline: Is it hard to re-adjust to that kind of acting after 7 years?

McGowan: Yes, but also, there are little things -- like Rumple has to get a contract to appear, so you freeze, the prop guy comes in, gives him the contract, and you resume action. I already knew all those little details because of Charmed. Whereas when I started on Charmed, no one explained to me what was going on. They'd say, "And now you orb." I was like, "What?!?!" [laughs] No one ever really told me what all those words meant.

ETonline: You joined Charmed halfway through its run, so you already knew it was a popular show, but has the audience's enduring love for it surprised you?

McGowan: Oh my God, completely. I think it really became people's family more than anything. I've met people who have named their babies Paige -- which is such an honor. It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people. There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves -- people love things for different reasons, but I think people loved Charmed because it felt like a family. And like with Once Upon A Time, they love that battle between good and evil!

Once Upon A Time airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Source: ETOnline.com

Behind the scenes photos featuring Rose McGowan:

AMD announced that they have been working with Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics to create a new technology that generates the most realistic hair seen to date in a video game. The technology is called TressFX. With it, physics and collision detection can be done for each individual strand of hair, according to AMD. AMD goes on to explain how AMD Radeon cards, specifically the Radeon 7000 line, are best suited for the technology.

AMD says that, until now, realistic hair has been out of reach of games designers to implement as it’s one of the “most complex and challenging materials to accurately reproduce in real-time.” A new blog post on the AMD Game Blog says that games characters have historically tended to be very fond of wearing helmets or seem to overindulge in hairspray. This is because “Convincingly recreating a head of lively hair involves drawing tens of thousands of tiny and individual semi-transparent strands, each of which casts complex shadows and requires anti-aliasing. Even more challengingly, these calculations must be updated dozens of times per second to synchronize with the motion of a character”.