Canadian producer Don Carmody’s Toronto-shot Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D is to debut in China on 1,000-plus 3D screens from Nov. 16.

Beijing-based distributor DMG and its local partner, the China Film Group, will release the fourth installment of the Capcom video game-to-movie franchise in the Chinese market.

Resident Evil: Afterlife was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson at the Cinespace Films Studios and stars Milla Jovovich and Wentworth Miller.

DMG is also to release in China in early 2011 another movie shot in Toronto – Summit Entertainment and DC Comics’ action Bruce Willis-starring spy thriller Red.