Other notable films of Anderson's are Event Horizon (1997), an initial critical and commercial disappointment that found renewed appreciation on home media; Alien vs.

He met producer Jeremy Bolt and they founded Impact Pictures in 1992, looking to raise money for Anderson's feature film debut as a director, from an action crime drama script of his own called Shopping.

After much trouble securing funding,[3] Shopping, which stars Sean Pertwee, Jude Law (in his first feature film role) and Sadie Frost, was released in the United Kingdom in 1994.

When Shopping was accepted in the Sundance Film Festival, American studios noticed its impressive look and style despite its relatively small $2 million budget, which led to opportunities in Hollywood for Anderson.

The production company decided to hire him based on the accomplished visual flair of Shopping, which was filmed on a very low budget.

The film had extensive reshoots in order to add additional fights based on feedback from test screenings, which were attended by fans of the video game franchise.

[12] Anderson and most cast members, including Lambert, declined to return for the sequel, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, which, when released, was critically panned and underperformed at the box office.

[13] The success of Mortal Kombat gave Anderson free rein to choose his next project, the science fiction action film Soldier, written by Blade Runner screenwriter David Peoples.

Peoples' script—and eventually the film itself—contains references to his work on Blade Runner and can be considered to be taking place in the same universe, as a sidequel or standalone sequel of sorts.

Kurt Russell became attached to star but decided to take some time off to build up his body, as required by the role, which delayed the production.

[14] In the meantime, Anderson directed the 1997 science fiction horror film Event Horizon, written by Philip Eisner and starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.

Despite praise for its visuals and production design, it was not well received by critics[15][16] or audiences (D+ on a Cinemascore poll),[11] and failed to break even, which Anderson blamed on a tight post-production schedule and studio-enforced cuts.

Anderson has expressed his regret that the planned location shoots had to be changed to studio soundstages due to the El Niño hurricane, which ended up compromising the film's look.

[26] Anderson returned to cinema screens in 2002 with Resident Evil, a science fiction action horror film loosely based on the Capcom video game series of the same name.

Critically, Resident Evil was not received well,[31][32] although, similarly to Mortal Kombat, some reviews characterized it as one of the better attempts at adapting a video game.

A film version had been stuck in development hell for several years, despite the franchise's crossing into every other form of media, from books to comics to video games.

[51] During the filming of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), crew member Ricardo Cornelius died when he was caught beneath a Humvee sliding off of a rotating platform.

Stunt-woman Olivia Jackson lost most of an arm and was partially paralyzed when she collided with a camera crane during the filming of a motorcycle stunt in rain and freezing conditions.

[52] During the filming of Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), twelve extras were hospitalized with leg, neck, and back wounds after falling from a collapsing high-wheeled platform.

Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans and Logan Lerman, respectively, star as the characters from the novel Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan, while Milla Jovovich plays Milady de Winter.

Furthermore, Christoph Waltz stars as Cardinal Richelieu, Orlando Bloom plays the Duke of Buckingham and Mads Mikkelsen appears as Captain Rochefort.

Inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 which destroyed Pompeii, a city of the Roman Empire, the film was written by Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler, and Michael Robert Johnson; it stars Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, with Jared Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland.

[54] His first daughter with Jovovich, Ever Gabo Anderson, was cast in a double role, as both a young version of Alice and the character of Red Queen introduced in the original film.

[82] He is also set to write and direct an upcoming film adaptation of The House of the Dead video game, specifically its third canonical installment.

[101][102][103][104] Anderson has repeatedly said that he considers himself to be a "populist filmmaker", who only cares about whether his movies entertain the audience and make them cheer in the cinema, rather than their reception by professional critics.