Business Wire Resident Evil 2, sequel to the survival horror game that terrified more than 4 million video game players worldwide, is scheduled to ship Jan. 21, 1998, for the Sony PlayStation.

Variety reports Nicolas Cage may end up on death row at Warner Bros., which is planning a prison thriller about capital punishment.

Cage will produce and possibly star in the noirish project, currently titled "The Life of David Gale." Warner Bros. bought it for Cage's studio-based Saturn Films production company.

The pitch came from an original idea created by Vienna, Austria-based philosophy professor Charles Randolph, who has been hired to write the screenplay as well.

The story is described as a politically charged dramatic thriller set in present-day Texas and centering on a young philosophy professor who has vehemently lobbied against the death penalty. The story unfolds a la "Dead Man Walking" as the professor recounts his plight to a journalist from his seat on death row, where he has been sentenced for the brutal rape and murder of one of his anti-death-penalty activist colleagues.

The son of missionaries, Randolph is an American expatriate from Texas, who teaches aesthetic philosophy in the Universityof Vienna system. He has also written, directed and produced several film shorts in Europe.

According to the Hollywood Reporter Wolfgang Petersen is attached to direct Touchstone Pictures' Ten Good Men, based on a pitch by David Weisberg and Doug (The Rock) Cook. The picture is an action-thriller is set at the end of the millennium and centers on an ordinary man who finds himself in a situation with biblical ramifications.

According to the Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros. is putting the final touches on promotional deals for its family-oriented summer animated release, The Quest for Camelot, with Wendy's, Kodak, Kraft General Foods and Tyson Foods as the lead promotional partners. Warners, the second major studio to compete directly against the Walt Disney Co. in feature animation, will be following in the footsteps of 20th Century Fox's Anastasia, which was a moderate holiday success story last year. But promotion executives don't expect Warners will be able to muster the $200 million in promotional and media support that was put together for Anastasia. Still, Warners executives said they have met their goals.

E! Online reports the voice of cartoon siren Betty Boop and Popeye gal-pal Olive Oyl has been silenced. Mae Questel, whose career spanned nearly 60 years, died Wednesday in New York. She was 89.

Army Archerd reports after long discussions among The Mask Of Zorro's producers, director Martin Campbell -- and Amblin's Steven Spielberg -- it was decided not to shoot a new ending. Thus Don Diego (Anthony Hopkins) dies in the arms of his daughter (Catherine Zeta Jones).

But of course the "Zorro" tradition carries on in the person of Antonio Banderas.

But what about a sequel, could Don Diego return?

"Well," producer David Foster reminds, "Alec Guinness returned" to "Star Wars" after Obi Wan Kenobi's demise.