Movie to TV Show Mania: RESIDENT EVIL Will Be Readapted for TV — Plus 7 Others

It seems like every movie out there is either getting a companion TV series or a full readaptation for TV. Today Constantin Film has announced that Resident Evil, The Mortal Instruments, and Perfume are being developed for TV.

We have recently reported that Underworld, Rush Hour, Big, Minority Report, and Omen are getting the TV treatment. Movies being adapted into shows happens all the time, but we've had eight reported readaptations in about a month.

In movies there seem to be two kinds of budgets, big $100 plus million and low budget projects. All the $50 million or $20-$30 million movie budget movies seem to have largely disappeared. Studios seem to really only have confidence in serialized movies and cineverses. Why spend $30 million on a movie when you can create a high budget TV series? Instead of one weekend to make back 80% of your money, you make a deal with a network and get all your money back, and have an opportunity to make revenue off a hit series for years and years. There are more places for TV online, too. Netflix has changed the game, and even Amazon is getting into the mix.

Movie geeks have been complaining about remakes for years. If the studios don't pull off great readaptations, I'm sure we'll get more complaints. But there are some great movies that have made even better TV shows. A few examples that come to mind are M*A*S*H and Friday Night Lights. Add that to the fact that TV is making really compelling content like Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Arrow… the list goes on. The more I think about it the more all these announcements make sense. I'm sure there will be more to come.