The Big Picture: ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!

Published 2026-09-17; 1:41:57 by the feed.

As extracted (engineer-sonnet-2026-10-13)

The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Resident Evil' Absolutely Rips!”.

Hosts: Sean Fennessey. Guests: Chris Ryan (CR).

Subject films: Resident Evil (2026).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; Sean Fennessey hosts with guest Chris Ryan (CR); Amanda Dobbins is not present (referenced only). Producer Jack Sanders is thanked at the end. Numbers like '8th film adaptation' and '$80000000' are as transcribed.

Films that came up

Claims (44)

unmapped (negotiations): Noah Baumbach → Barbie. Baumbach and Gerwig are reportedly negotiating a payday to return to Barbie, while Baumbach goes to Warner's Clockwork.
“Bombach and Gerwig are currently mired into negotiations to get a really good payday to come back to Barbie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:08:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
people (director): Miami Vice 85 → Joseph Kosinski. Sean anticipates Miami Vice 85 as a Joseph Kosinski fan; Dan Gilroy wrote the script.
“I'm anticipating the film as a Joseph Kaczinski fan.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:16:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Resident Evil → The Crow. Fennessey says DP Darius Wolski is working in his The Crow / Dark City register on Resident Evil.
“the director of photography of this movie is 70-year-old Darius Wolski, who is best known, I think, recently for his work with Ridley Scott, but who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Resident Evil → Dark City. Same remark: Wolski's look here is his Dark City mode, a shared-cinematographer style comparison.
“who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Darius Wolski → Ridley Scott. Wolski is identified as best known recently for his work with Ridley Scott.
“Darius Wolski, who is best known, I think, recently for his work with Ridley Scott”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
people (people): Resident Evil → Ryan Hayes Holladay. The Holladays return to score, implying a repeat collaboration with the earlier Cregger films; Fennessey loves the score.
“Ryan and Hayes Holiday are back doing the score.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
lineage (tonal influence): Resident Evil → Evil Dead II. Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
“I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Evil Dead. Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead.
“a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (character comp): Resident Evil → Die Hard. Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod.
“He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
people (performance comp): Austin Abrams → Michael J. Fox. Abrams recalls Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future: spirited, snarky, sweet, outlandish situations, gumption.
“the actor that Abrams reminded me of most is Michael J. Fox and Back to the Future.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:53 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Back to the Future. Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film.
“Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (silent-comedy lineage): Resident Evil → Charlie Chaplin. The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well.
“there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Fargo. Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene.
“it almost is like he's recreating that.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (avoided trope): Resident Evil → Lone Wolf & Cub. Sean feared the girl would become a Lone Wolf and Cub companion; the film does the opposite.
“is this going to be fucking lone wolf and cub again?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (creature design): Resident Evil → The Thing. The little girl turns into the dog from The Thing.
“as does this girl who turns into the dog from the thing.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): Resident Evil → The Thing. The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
“You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): Resident Evil → John Carpenter. Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
“It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Resident Evil → 28 Days Later. Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror.
“You could pull the Romero zombie movies.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (structure contrast): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons chopped the story across perspectives; Resident Evil is linear through one guy's eyes, but both make you want to recap the beats.
“This movie is as linear as they come.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
“most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Evil Dead II → Scary Movie. Evil Dead 2 fuses comedy with horror history rather than upending it; making fun of horror usually leads to Scary Movie, not an actually funny and scary film.
“making fun of horror usually leads you down the road to scary movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:51:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Resident Evil → Green Room. Without the comedy release valve it would be as upsetting as Green Room or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
“otherwise it's like you're watching Green Room. You're watching, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Get Out. Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening.
“get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): Resident Evil → George A. Romero. The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun.
“the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (creature/set-piece comp): Resident Evil → Aliens. The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall.
“this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): Resident Evil → Die Hard. The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass).
“You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (genre comp): Resident Evil → Re-Animator. The finale slips into science-lab horror with a bit of Re-Animator.
“you get a little bit of, like, reanimator.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (creature design): Resident Evil → Freaked. Abrams's final monster looks like Alex Winter's monster from Freaked.
“It looks like Alex Winters is monster from Freaked.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (box-office comp): Resident Evil → Obsession. Obsession was also disgusting and a huge sensation, showing gross horror can have a high ceiling.
“obsession is also disgusting at times, and it is a huge sensation.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Paul Thomas Anderson. Early-career PTA was a comp for Cregger, but Resident Evil would be his Punch-Drunk Love (a simpler follow-up after the bigger film).
“I had been thinking about his career in terms of PTA's early career.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career comp): Resident Evil → Punch-Drunk Love. The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings.
“this would be his punch drunk love.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career-position comp): Resident Evil → Jackie Brown. Resident Evil is to Cregger as Jackie Brown (third film, stripped-down, source material) was to Tarantino.
“It is kind of like Jackie Brown.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:12:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (audience-clout comp): Zach Cregger → Christopher Nolan. Cregger has already done what Nolan did, smashing through online fan concern-trolling.
“he's already done what Nolan did, which is apparently just like smashed through the, like, fake concern control online.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:13:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career parallel): Zach Cregger → Jordan Peele. Cregger's first three films resemble Peele's: a short window, escalating ambition, genre with Carpenter influence; both come from sketch comedy.
“The thing that it reminds me of the most is Jordan Peele.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:14:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (near-miss production): Jordan Peele → Weapons. Peele reportedly wanted to produce Weapons or Barbarian and changed management companies when he did not.
“Peel wanted to produce, was it weapons or barbarian?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:14:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (output comp): Zach Cregger → John Carpenter. Twelve 87-minute Cregger films would feel like when Carpenter put out a movie every 18 months.
“What we imagine it was like to be like our age when Carpenter was putting out a movie every 18 months.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Quentin Tarantino. Four films then a breather would be like Tarantino's Kill Bill then the stop-down.
“for Quentin, that would have been like the kill Bill and then the stopdown after that, right?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation benchmark): Resident Evil → The Last of Us. Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV.
“I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (respectability): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
“this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (inspiration): Kane Parsons → Backrooms. Parsons was hugely inspired by Portal; explorable games move at their own pace.
“Kane Parsons was hugely inspired by portal”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:22:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation hope): Alex Garland → Elden Ring. Garland loves Elden Ring and that is why he is adapting it; the lesson may be to give great filmmakers license.
“Garland loves Elden Ring, and that's why he's doing the movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:24:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (horror-comedy short list): Resident Evil → Fright Night. Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead.
“Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (foundational influence): Evil Dead → Casablanca. Evil Dead has been ripped off so many times it is foundational, like Casablanca.
“it's like Casablanca at this point.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (comedy-horror): Barbarian → Resident Evil. Barbarian's Justin Long convertible cut is a horror-comedy peak, but sustaining it is tough.
“barbarian is like the hard cut to Justin Long singing along in the convertible”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

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fun, about Noah Baumbach: Leaving Netflix after four features in eight years for Warner Bros.' Clockwork; Sean wants to see directors out of the Netflix cocoon.
“there is a Netflix cocoon around a group of directors”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:03:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Miami Vice 85: Sean guesses John Leguizamo plays Calderon; the guys joke about Evil Crockett and a Tubbs revenge plot.
“Tubs is revenge.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:18:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: Cregger told Sean the film would be a rock-em sock-em, brain-off Evil Dead 2 style movie, nothing like Barbarian and Weapons. Sean regrets asking him why he was making a franchise film right after Weapons.
“I took a little bit of an attitude with him.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one.
“we both were wide-eyed, and we knew.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: Runs 87 minutes and Chris did not want it to end; every movie in 2026 feels too long.
“I cannot remember the last time I was in a movie and felt, God, this is moving too fast.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:23:31 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Austin Abrams: Reacts to killing like a player in a video game, not like a traumatized man; Chris compares it to playing Max Payne with caffeine and cigarettes.
“I've had 4 coffees over the course of the day and now I've had 3 beers”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:25:21 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: The title credits do not appear until after the 20 minute mark; most of the trailer is from the first 20 minutes.
“the title credits don't appear until after the 20 minute mark”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Zach Cregger: Filmed in snow in Prague for seven months; he told THR you cannot erase footsteps to redo a take.
“once you step in snow, how do you erase those steps so you can redo a take?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:37:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: Brian shoots the bitten girl who turns into a lizard-footed tentacle monster, rather than becoming Lone Wolf and Cub; Sean wanted to applaud as the father of a daughter.
“He blows that fucking girl's head off.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:38:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: A running padlock gag: giant truck caught in a padlocked gate, the first of many padlocks that stymie Brian.
“the 1st of many padlocks that stymie him throughout this movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: A screening audience member shouted 'kill it' when Brian meets the little girl in the RV, breaking the seal on the laughter.
“Someone shouted out, kill it.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: The rat sequence: a huge zombie explodes into hundreds of rats; Chris's rat fear traces to New York apartment mice, and he is grateful they did not form a rat king.
“the rats did not become a king rat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: The suicide jumper scene: Brian runs through a canyon of people leaping off tall buildings and exploding near him; Chris calls it operatic but wishes it was not in the trailer.
“So I thought it was just completely operatic and amazing.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: A voice-note confession by the elevator is undercut by an intercom voice saying come up, take the stairs; he takes the elevator anyway, which becomes the acid-barf, snowball-zombie set piece.
“Takes 4 flights of stairs.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: The maternity ward with a glowing bubble that Sean compared to a rising sourdough loaf, and which bursts into a log flume of blood.
“which you compared to, a rising sourdough loaf.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:01:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Griffin Newman: Blank Check co-host Griffin Newman and Severance's Zach Cherry play scientists in the final lab; podcasters get extra pixie dust from the scene.
“there's a little bit of extra pixie dust on this sequence”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:04:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: Called one of the greatest get-in-get-out IP jobs in movie history; Cregger wants out of Raccoon City.
“It's one of the greatest get in and get out IP jobs in the history of movies.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: The ending has no happy ending: Abrams becomes a tentacled monster waving as a National Guard helicopter closes in, then a cut to black.
“this guy waving his tentacles in the air screaming as the National Guard helicopter is bearing down on him.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:08:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: Box office tracking is $80 million worldwide for the opening weekend, huge for horror; Chris thinks $300 million domestic is possible.
“can this movie like realistically make $300000000 in America, I think it can.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:10:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Zach Cregger: Constantin Film head said Cregger came to them with the idea; Cregger's next film is a big sci-fi action movie, The Flood, for Warner Bros.
“Zach Craiger came to them and was like, I have an idea for a Resident Evil movie.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:13:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Zach Cregger: Chris wishes Cregger would make twelve 87-minute movies.
“could you make 12, 87 minute movies?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:15:58 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Resident Evil: After Weapons, Cregger could have tortured himself to top it; instead he made a movie about blowing up a baby.
“what if I blew up a baby?”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:17:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Video games: Sean skips cut scenes; Chris likes being controlled by a movie and not controlling a game. GTA 6 arrives in two months and may blot out podcasting.
“In the movies, somebody else is in control.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:27:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Horror lately: Both hosts feel horror movies are becoming a drag, heavy on ponderous self-examination; Resident Evil could be a changer-comer back toward fun.
“horror movies are becoming a drag.”
The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:31:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Sean Fennessey (host): Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma.
Chris Ryan (guest): Loves gross, funny, tonally audacious horror that breaks rules and dispenses with redemption endings; adores Evil Dead 2, Carpenter, and video-game feel. Dislikes happy-ending cop-outs and self-serious reboots. A sucker for midnight-madness cinema, gore with comic timing, and director careers framed like trading cards.

The show's recurring bits

Drafts: Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument.
Hall of Fame: A star's or director's best, ranked and argued.
Countdowns: Ranked lists, top five or top ten.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Sean Fantasy → Sean Fennessey
Noah Bombach → Noah Baumbach
Zach Kreger / Craiger / Cracker / Gregor → Zach Cregger
Shea Hatton → Shay Hatten
Ryan and Hayes Holiday → Ryan and Hays Holladay
Callie Reese → Kali Reis
Mary Bronze → Mary Bronstein
Christian Parks → Christian Parkes
Joseph Kaczinski → Joseph Kosinski
Peel → Jordan Peele
Brigands of Rattle Creek / Park Shanwok / Zoller → Brigands of Rattlecreek / Park Chan-wook / Zahler
Constantine Films → Constantin Film
Inoritu → Inarritu
Tiff → TIFF
Elmer Leonard → Elmore Leonard
Jessica Roth → Jessica Rothe
Michael Sarnosky → Michael Sarnoski
Skydance animation → Skydance Animation
Warner Mount → Warner/Paramount (merger)
Kenneth Walker's usage → NFL reference, likely Kenneth Walker
Alden Erinright → unclear (a cast name, guess unknown)

The Big Picture: ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!

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