Modders are having an absolute field day with Resident Evil Village.

Capcom’s survival horror franchise has proven to be a particularly popular pick for hobbyist content creators since the release of the RE2 remake back in 2019, which saw one of the game’s major antagonists, Mr. X, outfitted in all sorts of fan-made costumes. Others went one step further by replacing the intimidating Tyrant with different characters entirely, mostly to humorous effect. Nemesis would ultimately receive similar treatment 12 months later with the retelling of Jill Valentine’s own escape from Raccoon City and now, it’s the turn of this year’s installment to get some equally ridiculous adjustments.

GeorgeIEoo’s creation, for instance, as depicted in the video above, completely replaces Village‘s Moroaica enemies with one of the slasher genre’s most iconic villains.

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Admittedly, Scream‘s Ghostface appears more comedic than scary here due to the height mismatch, but if you’re searching for the means to spice up repeated playthroughs of Ethan Winters’ adventure, look no further. In fact, if you’ve no qualms about throwing immersion out the window, there are plenty of optional extras to choose from. Another mod released earlier this week allows users to replace Chris Redfield’s chiseled features with those of Albert Wesker, changing the jaw-dropping opening scene’s tone.

As for those of you still tentatively moving through Resident Evil Village‘s campaign for the first time, you can get help with some of the sequel’s toughest segments by checking out our boss guides for Mother Miranda’s minions, Donna Beneviento and Heisenberg by hitting the respective links. Likewise, if you’re constantly finding yourself strapped for cash and unable to upgrade your gear with the Duke, see here for our treasure guide. Good luck!

The opening 15 minutes of Army of the Dead have been released online. Fresh off the release of his extended cut of Justice League on HBO Max a couple of months ago, Zack Snyder fans can’t wait for his first collaboration with Netflix, which takes the form of a zombie/heist mash-up thriller starring Dave Bautista.

Ahead of its debut in limited theaters tomorrow and arrival on streaming next week, Netflix has now made the movie’s first 15 minutes available to watch on YouTube (see above). The streamer hosted a live event for fans this Thursday afternoon, which saw Snyder and the cast – including Bautista – shepherding livestreamers through a first-person, video game-like recreation of the film’s plot. Once fans watched the half-hour experience, they were then redirected to the exclusive link to Army of the Dead‘s action-packed opening scenes.

The movie follows a group of mercenaries, led by Bautista’s Scott Ward, who embark on a dangerous but lucrative mission – to undertake a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak. The Guardians of the Galaxy actor is joined by the likes of Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Matthias Schweighöfer, Tig Notaro and Garret Dillahunt.

Remember, Netflix isn’t just waiting to see how this one does before launching a franchise around it, as they have so much faith in Snyder’s movie that two spinoffs are already in the works. Schweighöfer is set to return to not just reprise his character in a prequel film, titled Army of Thieves, but he’s also on board to direct the project, too. What’s more, anime-style spinoff series Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas is likewise in development.

Army of the Dead is set to premiere on Friday, May 21st on Netflix, but will be in theaters starting tomorrow.

2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard combined the powers of Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson to deliver an entertaining action-comedy and now – four years later – the duo are back for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, which sees Salma Hayek get a bigger chunk of the action this time, too. A month after the first trailer for the sequel arrived, Reynolds has debuted a new red band promo for the movie, which teases another winning blend of R-rated violence, strong language and hilarity.

“I never know if we’re filming or if this stuff just happens when you hang out with [Samuel L. Jackson] and [Salma Hayek],” the actor joked in his caption to the promo, which he shared on Twitter this morning.

Years after the events of the first film, Reynolds’ Michael Bryce is on a sabbatical from his job when his life becomes intertwined with the Kincaids once again as Sonia (Hayek) recruits him to help her stop an assassination attempt on her husband Darius (Jackson). Complications arise, though, due to Bryce’s sabbatical meaning he’s not licensed to use any firearms, forcing him to get creative as he fights to protect the Kincaids and save the day.

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Gary Oldman played the villain in the last movie and this time that role is filled by Antonio Banderas. Frank Grillo, Richard E. Grant and Morgan Freeman are also in the cast. Say what you like about these pics, but they definitely offer up more A-list actors for your buck than most.

2021 is a busy year for all three of this film’s leads. Ryan Reynolds has two other projects coming out over the next few months – Netflix’s Red Notice and the video game-themed Free Guy – and Salma Hayek stars in Marvel’s Eternals and Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, both arriving in November. Samuel L. Jackson, meanwhile, can be seen in Spiral: From The Book of Saw later this week.

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is scheduled to hit theaters next month, on June 16th.

Based on the way things are going, you’ll probably be able to show somebody one of the Purge movies a couple of decades from now, tell them it’s a fly on the wall documentary and they might just believe you. Indeed, looking at what’s unfolded over the last twelve months, an annual 24-hour window where anything goes would only serve to scale back the insanity of the modern world.

Having been delayed for a year as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, the first trailer for The Forever Purge has now arrived just over seven weeks from the movie’s theatrical debut, continuing the trend of this summer’s releases launching their marketing campaigns in earnest very late in the day.

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The franchise has earned more than $446 million at the box office to date, but there’s extra pressure on The Forever Purge to succeed. Not only is it being touted as the last entry in the series, something former star Frank Grillo has already cast doubt on, but with a budget of almost $26 million, it’s been twice as expensive to produce as any other installment.

The plot follows two characters who end up on the run from a Mexican drug cartel in the middle of the Purge and seek refuge on a Texas ranch. However, they soon discover that their old and new pursuers alike have no intentions of calling it quits even after the curfew runs out, which should at least serve to freshen up the formula a little bit. As you’d expect, The Forever Purge is rated R for strong, bloody violence, language and gore, so let’s hope the brand goes out in a blaze of blood, guts and glory.

Fans were shocked when the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming fantasy series Sweet Tooth was released, if only because it’s a DC Comics adaptation being produced by Robert Downey Jr. Having played the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Tony Stark for over a decade, there was a lot of surprise in some circles that the star had pitched up to work for the competition, but it’s not as if he’s bound to the MCU for life.

The project’s been in development since November 2018 when it was initially set up at Hulu, and Downey Jr. has been involved from the start as an executive producer alongside his wife Susan through their Team Downey banner, so it’s hardly breaking news. Netflix acquired the rights in April of last year, and if the footage is anything to go by, it could be next in a long line of hit fantasy shows for the streaming service.

Sweet Tooth premieres in just over three weeks on June 4th, and a new featurette featuring Robert Downey Jr. seen above now gives us some insight into how the series came together. The premise focuses on a fantasy world where human-animal hybrids emerge as the result of an event known as The Great Crumble. 10 year-old Gus is part-deer, and during his travels he partners up with a mysterious wanderer before they embark on an adventure across America to search for answers.

It’s a solid concept, with the trailer promising plenty of lavish visuals and interesting worldbuilding for good measure. A glance at the Top 10 most-watched rankings on any given day makes it perfectly clear that Netflix subscribers are hugely keen on the fantasy genre, so Sweet Tooth stands an excellent chance of finding success on the platform.

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a severe effect on the theatrical industry, and we’re still waiting to find out if the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters is going to go boom or bust. Once upon a time, Jared Leto’s Morbius was set to hit the big screen in July 2020 before Venom: Let There Be Carnage arrived just a couple of months later, but it would be an understatement to say that things have changed since then.

Morbius is going to be sitting on the shelf until next January now, but we’ll at least get to see Tom Hardy return as Eddie Brock on September 24th. The first Venom was a surprisingly massive success at the box office after hauling in over $850 million, but reviews were less than enthusiastic and at times it felt as though director Ruben Fleischer deliberately set out to make a superhero blockbuster from the 1990s.

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Andy Serkis is behind the camera for the sequel, and it’s already looking as if he’s adopted a much different visual and tonal aesthetic. Meanwhile, the promise of some scenery-devouring exchanges between Hardy’s nervously sweating Eddie Brock and Woody Harrelson’s broad Cletus Kasady should be more than enough to let you know if you’re on board with the follow-up, which seems like it’s going to be a whole lot of intentionally ridiculous fun based on this first trailer.

It’s unlikely that it’ll come close to reaching $850 million during its theatrical run given the lingering effects of the pandemic, but it should at least put the SPUMC in good stead for the release of both Morbius and the slew of in-development projects to have been announced during the long wait for Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Deepfake videos have taken fan casting to a whole new level, allowing editors to swap out the faces of performers with whatever actor they chose. A recent effort sees Jean-Claude Van Damme as Johnny Cage in the original Mortal Kombat movie, after the reboot renewed interest in the less-regarded ‘90s efforts.

The video features a trio of scenes with the original and edit shown in side-by side comparison, first where Cage is introduced to the titular tournament, then the beginning of his battle with Scorpion (with the film’s ropey CGI painfully apparent) and finally the conclusion of his bout against Goro.

The character was played by Linden Ashby, who’s probably best known to modern audiences from drama/horror series Teen Wolf as Stiles Stilinski’s father Sheriff Noah, and to be honest, he was about as distinctive as much of the rest of the pic. It’s slightly jarring to see JCVD’s face but not hear him speak in his Belgian accent, which may well have been why he wasn’t approached to play the part in spite of the character being based on him, since Cage is intended to be quintessentially American. Interestingly, Van Damme did previously get the chance to portray an all-American hero of a video game adaptation, but unfortunately that was 1994’s Street Fighter.

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Of course, Cage wasn’t featured in the recent reboot despite a popular fan theory that franchise newcomer Cole Young would adopt the moniker as a stage name, and while he was the only one of the original game’s lineup of warriors to not be included directly, the allusion to his future presence formed a prominent sequel hook.

Despite many fans calling for Van Damme to play Cage in Mortal Kombat 2, this is highly unlikely to come to pass as he’s now far too old unless some de-aging techniques are implemented. However, we at least have this video to imagine what might have been.

Some actors are limited in the range of their performances, but can be relied upon when well within them. Jason Statham is one such person, consistently embodying gruff and taciturn roles in mid-level action movies. The latest such outing of his is Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man, for which a new clip has now been released.

The story sees a mysterious man known as H hired as a driver for armored trucks, only for his talents as a marksman and killer to be quickly revealed when he puts down an attempted hold-up, massacring the would-be thieves with callous efficiently and revealing that there is more to his presence than first appeared.

The clip shows Holt McCallany’s Bullet and Josh Harnett’s Boy Sweat Dave (and if you think they’re odd names, take a look at the character rundowns of some of Ritchie’s other movies) discussing the aftermath of the robbery that H foiled with seemingly effortless ease and addressing that something wasn’t right about both the situation and the man who dealt with it.

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The rest of the video consists of the trailer for the pic, but adds greater context to their words if you’ve yet to encounter it. The video highlights that the film is likely to be as much about the mystery of H’s past as it is about him slaughtering his way through an army of anonymous mooks, and although his motivation is already revealed in the released material, exactly where he acquired his very specific set of skills will only come up in the movie itself.

Wrath of Man marks the fourth collaboration between Statham and Ritchie, after London-set gangster flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and pretentious crime thriller Revolver. It looks to take itself far more seriously than much of the director’s previous work, though, even if the star’s granite expressions will be perfect for maintaining the mystery of the man he portrays.

Less than 24 hours remain until the latest entry in Capcom’s illustrious survival horror series arrives.

Come May 7th, the gates to Resident Evil Village‘s titular setting will swing open, welcoming players to explore its snow-touched streets and the dark secret it hides in plain view as Ethan Winters. Believing his encounter with the Baker family to be a freak occurrence, the hapless protagonist finds himself embroiled in yet another nightmare scenario several years after RE7, with the catalyst for his actions this time being the abduction of his daughter, Rose.

In light of Chris Redfield’s apparent turn toward villainy, Ethan is left to infiltrate a bizarre cult infatuated with the enigmatic Mother Miranda and her four servants. One of these, of course, is the abnormally tall Lady Dimitrescu, who swiftly became the face of the marketing campaign following her debut in initial trailers. Speaking of which, a brand new promo has been released today featuring previously unseen content, and you can check it out up above.

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Of course, Dimitrescu is just one lord of four that you’ll be forced to confront in order to retrieve Rose, all of whom lay claim to their respective territory. Heisenberg, Moreau and Beneviento each represent a creature from folklore but we won’t spoil the specifics – that’s for you to discover on your own. Anyone who pre-orders the title will be granted access to some helpful bonus items for use in the campaign as well as RE: Verse, a multiplayer accompaniment intended to celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary. Following confirmation of the latter’s delay, however, this feature is now scheduled to arrive sometime during the summer.

Resident Evil Village is available tomorrow for Xbox One, Series X|S, PS4, PS5 and PC and you can find WGTC’s review over here.