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Sigourney Weaver, Milla Jovovich, Shia LaBeouf, Vin Diesel, and more discuss what it's like to go from acting in big budget movies to providing the voices for video game characters. Despite the recession, video games are poised to have a great year following the record-breaking momentum of 2009. Since games cost a fraction ($10 million to $30 million) of what Hollywood spends on movies ($50 million to $500 million if you believe Avatar's reported costs), they have a better chance of succeeding if done right. Lending their talent to games also exposes actors to a huge new audience and gives them the potential to stay tapped into that audience for a much longer period of time than the average film. From Hollywood-licensed games like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Avatar to original franchises like Mass Effect 2 and Brutal Legend, more game developers are turning to Hollywood actors to bring virtual characters to life.

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Having already dabbled in horror with his science fiction flick Event Horizon, director Paul W. S. Anderson (later responsible for the atrocity that was Alien vs. Predator) turned his hand to video game adaptations with Resident Evil (2002).

Taking elements from the first two games, the movie starred The Fifth Element’s Milla Jovovich as an amnesiac who is forced to battle a horde of zombies after an outbreak is caused by the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. Its surprise success has led to the release of two sequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), with a fourth one currently in development.

The movie would also be cited as the catalyst for the subsequent zombie boom that would result in the likes of Dawn of the Dead (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and the much-anticipated Land of the Dead (2005).

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