Paul W.S. Anderson Filmography

Born:: March 4, 1965
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Paul Anderson gained a fair bit of notoriety in his native England when he directed the ultra-violent Shopping from his own script. The film, highly regarded for its stylish direction and production on a shoestring budget, featured Jude Law and Sean Pertwee in a story about ram-raiders, thieves...Read More

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Castlevania

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This adaptation of the popular Konami series concerns a vampire hunter who journeys deep into the heart of Dracula's labyrinthine lair to battle history's most fearsome bloodsucker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Death Race

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez

Synopsis: The Transporter star Jason Statham takes the wheel in director Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of the Roger Corman classic about a hyper-violent cross-country race that breaks all of the traditional rules of the road. The time is the not-so-distant future, and as America's prisons begin overflowing Read More

8/22/08
Resident Evil: Extinction

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti

Synopsis: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout Read More

9/21/07
DOA: Dead or Alive

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki, Kane Kosugi

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings Tecmo's best-selling video-game franchise to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza featuring an impressive quartet of female fighters including Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance. Tina (Read More

6/15/07
The Dark

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophie Stuckey, Abigail Stone, Richard Elfyn, Maurice Roeves, Maria Bello, Sean Bean

Synopsis: Hollywood success d'estimes Maria Bello (Payback, Duets) and Sean Bean (Troy) team up for the 2006 direct-to-video horror opus The Dark - a gothic tale of supernatural terror with echoes of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Manhattanite divorcee Adelle (Bello) and her young daughter, Sarah (Sophie Read More

2005
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur

Synopsis: One of the only survivors of a man-made plague joins forces with a team of private warriors in a bid to save what's left of the Earth in this sequel to Resident Evil, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game. Picking up where the first film left off, Resident Evil: Apocalypse finds Read More

9/10/04
Alien vs. Predator

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) and his team of drillers, scientists, and archaeologists, to an obscure pyramid site in Antarctica. Among the icy ruins, allegedly, lies the proof of an empire predating humankind. Once Read More

8/13/04
Necropolis

Crew: Screenwriter

2004
Resident Evil

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oscar Pearce, Indra Ové, Anna Bolt, Joseph May, Eric Mabius, Michelle Rodriguez

Synopsis: The director of Mortal Kombat (1995) adapts another popular video game for the big screen with this gory action thriller. Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as Alice and Rain, two members of a commando team assigned to infiltrate the Hive, an underground research laboratory owned by the Read More

3/15/02
The Sight

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Filmed in London, the cable-TV movie The Sight stars Andrew McCarthy as American architect Michael Lewis. Like the youthful protagonist in the theatrical feature Sixth Sense, the reluctantly psychic Michael "sees dead people." In fact, he sees the ghosts of 21 dead people in a single location, the Read More

2000
Soldier

Crew: Director

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: After scripting Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys, David Webb Peoples continued to traverse the science fiction landscape with this action-adventure directed by Paul Anderson. A prologue shows infants classified 1A and placed in an academy promoting violent militarism. Spawned in such an Read More

10/23/98
Event Horizon

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/horror scarefest, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) is a scientist who has designed a spacecraft called Event Horizon which will explore the outer reaches of space past the planet Neptune; the ship employs a special transport mechanism that, in effect, creates a black hole that the ship Read More

1997
Mortal Kombat

Crew: Director

Actors: Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: Three reluctant fighters are drafted for an intergalactic martial-arts tournament that will determine the fate of the human race in this special-effects-driven adventure. Inspired by the popular and notoriously bloody video game, Mortal Kombat provides a semblance of a plot as an excuse for Read More

1995
Shopping

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonathan Pryce, Sean Bean, Marianne Faithfull

Synopsis: Though not as successful as Trainspotting (1996) or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), this high-energy, kinetic crime thriller belongs in the same British New Wave category as those later films. In a decaying British city of the near future, Billy (Jude Law) is an ex-con adrenaline Read More

1994