Arnold Schwarzenegger and Milla Jovovich have teamed up for a marketing campaign with Wargaming‘s World of Tanks.

This December, the Hollywood heavyweights will guide players in missions across the World of Tanks franchise’s Holiday Ops campaigns. Ahnold is a big gun since he helped get the mobile game Mobile Strike off the ground for Machine Zone in 2017 in a Super Bowl ad.

The aim is to drum up support for World of Tanks, World of Tanks Blitz, and World of Tanks Modern Armor across the PC, mobile and console. This is one of the first bigger projects we’ve seen from Wargaming since it had the difficult task of extricating itself from Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war.

“I have played the hero in video game-based movies, but this is the first time ever I, myself, have had been put into an actual game, and I am ready for action,” Jovovich, in a statement. “Another first for me is that I am costarring with the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger. With him at my side, we will be guiding players to a magical Holiday Village and handing out special gifts to the players in World of Tanks.”

In the Holiday Ops cinematic trailer, Schwarzenegger and Jovovich undertake the most important mission
yet — to save the holidays for Arthur and his son Mikey. They will take a magical Holiday Express train that will take them to the heart of the Holiday Village, in World of Tanks.

“Last year I had an incredible experience with World of Tanks and when I was asked to return, I immediately replied ‘I´ll be back,’” said Schwarzenegger, in a statement. “I knew this year’s event was really going to be special and I was right. I am honored to star alongside the amazing Milla Jovovich, in our first time working together. The Holiday Ops rewards and challenges are even better this time, and I get to combine two of my favorite things; the holidays and tanks.”

Tankers will first encounter the duo in the garage, where they will assign challenges and quests. When players conquer these tasks, they will receive Arnie and Milla customization items like tank skins, themed emblems, inscriptions, decals, and commanders. Milla and Arnold’s voiceovers will be featured in World of Tanks PC and console.

Christopher Chung, World of Tanks Franchise Director, said it’s an honor to have the stars gracing the screens together for the first time in history, in World of Tanks.

“Like many of our millions of players around the world, I have watched movies starring Arnie
and Milla separately, over the decades,” said Chung, in a statement. “It’s truly a dream come true to partner with both global stars in our first-ever franchise-wide holiday celebration. There will be something special for our players on whichever platform they enjoy World of Tanks.”

The holiday events begin on December 1 and run through January 9, 2023. Each game’s version has their own set of dates and holiday offerings, custom fit to for that platform’s gameplay.

That’s an official wrap for me on my new movie “Breathe”!! So excited to have been a part of it. Huge thank you to our stars @iamjhud and @iamquvenzhane for being two of the most wonderful ladies to be on set with, to #samworthington and @raulcastillo who had us all in stitches the entire shoot and to our amazing director @stefonbristol who’s patience, vision, talent and perseverance was the driving force that got this movie made! The movie is about a not so distant future earth that has no air and how good people end up doing terrible things to try and breathe again. And on that note, now it’s time to start prepping for my next film “In The Lost Lands” with the one and only @davebautista! It’s based on the short story by George R.R. Martin. It’s a project my husband and I have been developing for about 6 years now and I’m so proud that we’re finally about to start shooting it!!!

Milla Jovovich is set to star in the action-thriller movie “Breathe”. Jennifer Hudson, Sam Worthington, Quvenzhané Wallis, Common, and others. Stefon Bristol directs from a Black List screenplay written by Doug Simon.

The movie, described as an “edge-of-your-seat survival thriller”, is expected to begin principal photography in Pennsylvania this summer.
“Breathe” follows a mother named Maya (Hudson) and her daughter (Wallis) who are forced to live underground after Earth is made uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen. Only short trips to the surface are made possible by a state-of-art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband Darius (Common), whom she presumes to be dead.
When a mysterious couple arrives claiming to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to let them into their bunker but are they all they appear to be?

“Breathe” is the second feature from Bristol, who previously collaborated with Spike Lee on his debut feature “See You Yesterday”, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and earned him a nomination for Best First Feature at the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Milla Jovovich in her fan-favorite role of Leeloo in The Fifth Element. And then there’s Resident Evil‘s Alice, who Jovovich presumably left behind with 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. But now she’s joined a new science fiction action thriller with a lot of promise. Jovovich is joining two Oscar winners for the post-apocalyptic film Breathe.

As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Milla Jovoich will be starring in Breathe alongside Oscar winners Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and Common (John Wick: Chapter 2). While he apparently has not fully committed yet, Sam Worthington (Avatar) is in talks to become part of the cast. Breathe‘s screenplay was written by Doug Simon (Brotherhood) and will be directed by the award-winning Stefon Bristol who made a big splash with his 2019 Netflix original See You Yesterday.

As the name suggests, Breathe is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth where oxygen is in short supply. Most survivors live underground and can only visit topside by wearing special oxygen suits. When the movie begins, Maya (Hudson) believes her husband Darius (Common) is dead. But a “mysterious couple” eventually arrives claiming things didn’t go as Maya and her daughter Zora (Wallis) believe. THR doesn’t name Milla Jovovich’s role, but considering Worthington’s possible addition to the film, it seems likely she’s one half of the aforementioned “mysterious couple.”

Soon, Paul W.S. Anderson will be helming an adaptation of a George R.R. Martin story with his wife in a starring role. Milla Jovovich will appear with Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) in In the Lost Lands. Jovovich plays the sorceress Gray Alys while Bautista plays a “drifter” named Boyce. Together they must fight men and demons at the behest of a love-hungry queen.

According to Variety, Milla Jovovich has also been attached to the action thriller Hummingbird for the past 4 years, but it feels like a “don’t hold your breath” situation. Jovovich was tapped once Munn dropped out. Back in 2018 when Jovovich’s casting was announced, Variety reported production was scheduled to begin that summer, but IMDb still lists the project as in pre-production.

Milla Jovovich is synonymous with the Resident Evil franchise having starred in all six live action films across the last two decades.

However, there is now a reboot in development. Helmed by Johannes Roberts and starring Kaya Scodelario and Robbie Amell, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City is scheduled for release this November. While Jovovich may not feature, she told Yahoo that it’s a world she’d love to enter again one day.

Speaking in 2020 while doing press for her latest film, the Paul W.S. Anderson actioner Monster Hunter – also adapted from a hugely successful Capcom video game series – when asked if she’d liked to return one day, she said: “Hopefully. Listen, I would love to.

“I love the franchise, I love the property, I had so much fun and it was such a huge part of my life. So I’m always open for anything!”

The forthcoming reboot, based on the first two Resident Evil video games, has encountered a personnel change since its conception, as James Wan left the project as producer to work on Mortal Kombat, and Roberts took over screenwriting duties from Greg Russo. The cast features Kaya Scodelario in the lead role of Claire Redfield, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, alongside Tom Hopper and Hannah John-Kamen, and Jovovich predicts they’ll all have had a lot of fun making the movie. And she’d know.

“I think it’s the perfect franchise to reboot,” she said. “It’s amazing and so much fun to be a part of, and I hope they do a great job of it. I’m sure all the actors will have a great time doing it.”
“Resident Evil is such an incredible universe and it’s why the game was so successful,” she said. “I remember when I was playing it, I loved tapping into the darkness of it and never knowing what’s around every corner.”