Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul William Scott Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creative voice behind the Resident Evil film series. His first feature film, Shopping, was released in the United Kingdom in 1994. His second film was the fantasy martial arts video gameadaptation MortalKombat in 1995.
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Paul William Scott Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creative voice behind the Resident Evil film series. Anderson made his feature film debut with the British independent film Shopping. He found commercial success with his second film, the Hollywood-produced Mortal Kombat, based on the first couple of video games of the same name by Midway Games. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt founded Impact Pictures in 1992, under which most of Anderson’s films have been made. The Resident Evil series consists of six films, of which Anderson directed four, that have collectively grossed over USD 1 billion worldwide, making it the most commercially successful video game adaptation to this date. Anderson is married to actress Milla Jovovich, and they have two children, a son and a daughter. He has also worked on the television series El C. I. D., starring Alfred Molina, which ran for three series, from 1990 to 1992, and starred Alfred Molino in its first two. Anderson has also directed Alien vs. Predator, a remakeprequel to 1975’s Death Race 2000, and Event Horizon, which found renewed appreciation on home video, and Death Race 2, which was a remake of the original Death Race. He also directed Super Mario Double Dragon, and Super Mario Super Dragon 2, starring Robin Shou and Christopher Lambert. Anderson was born in Wallsend, Northumberland, England, and grew up watching American and mainland European movies, never seeing himself becoming a British filmmaker.
He graduated as the youngest student ever from the University of Warwick with a B. A. in film and literature. He currently lives in London with his wife, Milla, and their two children. He works as a director and producer for Impact Pictures, which he co-founded with Jeremy Bolt in 1992. He was previously a writer on the British crime drama comedy series El. C.I. D. and has worked on a number of other films, including Alien and Alien 2, Alien 3, Alien 4, Alien 5, Alien 6, Alien 7, Alien 8, Alien 9, Alien 10, Alien 11, Alien 12, Alien 13, Alien 14, Alien 15, Alien 16, Alien 18, Alien 19, Alien 20, Alien 21, Alien 22, Alien 23, Alien 24, Alien 25, Alien 26, Alien 28, Alien 29, Alien 30, Alien 32, Alien 34, Alien 35, Alien 36, Alien 38, Alien 39, Alien 40, Alien 50, Alien 51, Alien 52, Alien 53, Alien 54, Alien 55, Alien 60, Alien 62, Alien 64, Alien 69, Alien 70, Alien 75, Alien 74, Predator, Predator and Predator. His first feature film, Shopping, was released in the United Kingdom in 1994. His second film was the fantasy martial arts video gameadaptation MortalKombat in 1995, from a script written by Kevin Droney, and starring an ensemble cast that includesRobin Shou as Liu Kang.
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