Universal Soldier: Regeneration

Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Official DVD cover
Directed by	John Hyams
Written by	Victor Ostrovsky
Based on	Characters created by Richard Rothstein Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin
Produced by	Craig Baumgarten Mark Damon Moshe Diamant Courtney Solomon
Starring	Jean-Claude Van Damme Dolph Lundgren Andrei Arlovski Mike Pyle Garry Cooper Corey Johnson Kerry Shale Aki Avni
Cinematography	Peter Hyams
Edited by	Jason Gallagher John Hyams
Music by	Kris Hill Michael Krassner
Production companies	Foresight Unlimited Signature Pictures
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release dates	October 1, 2009 (2009-10-01) (Austin Fantastic Fest) February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02) (United States)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9 million[1]
Box office	$844,000[2]

Universal Soldier: Regeneration is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed and co-edited by John Hyams, written by Victor Ostrovsky, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It is the fifth installment in the Universal Soldier franchise and an alternative sequel to the original Universal Soldier (1992), ignores the events from the 1999 theatrical sequel Universal Soldier: The Return and the two made for television sequels that were produced in 1998.

Mixed martial artist Andrei Arlovski stars as NGU (Next Generation UniSol), a Universal Soldier of the latest type, along with fellow fighter Mike Pyle as Capt. Kevin Burke. Tekken star Jon Foo appears as a cameo in the film as one of the four UniSols. In the United States the film was released directly to video by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on February 2, 2010. It had a theatrical release in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and some other parts of the world. The film has received mixed reviews and theatrically grossed $844,000 with a production budget of $9 million.