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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Alice's new costume was designed by Milla Jovovich's clothing line, Jovovich-Hawk.
  
  
• The production still of Alice (Milla Jovovich) holding two Kukri knives is a visual reference to Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)'s Poster.
  
  
• The idea for the two Kukri knives were from Milla Jovovich's fight trainer from Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Ron Balicki.
  
  
• The film was originally intended to be filmed in the Australian Outback but was changed to Mexico.
  
  
• This is the first live-action movie trilogy based on a video game.
  
  
• The accompanying music for the first theatrical trailer is The Crystal Method's "I Know It's You". Milla Jovovich provides the vocals/wailing for the song, which was released three years earlier.
  
  
• Prints were shipped to some theaters under the fake title "Raccoon City" - which is the name of the city featured in many of the video games.
  
  
• In the Tokyo scene the sign next to 'Tokyo Metro' reads 'Zatoichi Square' an obvious nod to the fictional Japanese film and television character.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: The man who is using the flamethrower when he gets knocked off the top of the truck by the infected ravens.
  
  
• The film was not screened for critics, most likely due to the overwhelmingly-negative reviews from critics for the first two films.
  
  
• For the crow attack scene, only two crows were used for the entire sequence. The rest of the crows were entered with special effects.
  
  
• There's a sneak preview of the next Resident Evil movie _Biohazard: Degeneration (2008)_ in the bonus material of the DVD.
  
  
• This is the first Resident Evil movie not to be released onto the VHS format, all the other movies were.
  
  
• Claire Redfield's role in the movie is different than in the games. She leads a convoy of survivors across the dead desert, but in the games, she on a mission to find her lost brother Chris Redfield.
  
  
• The crows sitting on power lines and attacking in large numbers pays homage to 'Alfred Hitchcock''s movie The Birds (1963).
  
  
• The Blu-Ray release was the first Blu-ray movie that offered the 'picture in picture' feature.
  
  
• Both director Russell Mulcahy and second unit director Douglas Aarniokoski have directed films in the 'Highlander' series. Mulcahy directing Highlander (1986) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), while Aarniokoski directed the fourth installment Highlander: Endgame (2000).
  
  
• Raccoon City is clearly Detroit, Michigan from the graphic about 6-7 minutes into the film. The Detroit river and Belle Isle are clearly discernible, as is the half moon shaped industrial park to the North (towards the left in the film).
  
  

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