Zach Cregger’s extremely acclaimed Resident Evil film had one other sturdy displaying on the field workplace for its second weekend, propelling the movie to interrupt one other franchise document. It already broke the document for greatest opening weekend for the franchise, and now the film has made greater than $100 million domestically.
That is a brand new document for the franchise–before this, the largest success domestically for the franchise was 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife ($60 million). Globally, Resident Evil has now made $196.5 million towards a reported $75 million manufacturing funds (not counting advertising and marketing prices).
The best-grossing Resident Evil film globally is Resident Evil: The Remaining Chapter, which made $312 million worldwide. Time will inform if 2026’s Resident Evil will catch up.
Try the listing under to see how the opposite mainstream theatrical Resident Evil motion pictures did on the home field workplace.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson made six Resident Evil motion pictures that starred his spouse, Milla Jovovich, and whereas none of them individually did very nicely commercially or critically, they mixed to earn over $1 billion worldwide.
The worst-performing theatrical Resident Evil film was 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis, which made simply $17 million domestically. It was directed by Johannes Roberts and starred Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield and Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy.
After that movie upset, rights-owner Constantin put the franchise on hiatus and deliberate to maintain it on ice till Cregger got here to the corporate with a pitch for Resident Evil.
His film is doing nice, so persons are questioning if there will probably be a sequel. That is still to be seen, and whereas Cregger has mentioned he has concepts for the place they story may go subsequent, he is additionally mentioned he’s completed with franchise motion pictures.
The Resident Evil film is a large success, however the current elevate in gross sales of video games within the sequence just isn’t utterly attributable to that, in response to a analysis agency.
Resident Evil home field workplace outcomes
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis (2021) – $17,000,612
- Resident Evil: The Remaining Chapter (2016) – $26,830,068
- Resident Evil (2002) – $40,119,709
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) – $42,345,531
- Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) – $50,648,679
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – $51,201,453
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) – $60,128,566
- Resident Evil 2026 (up to now) – $103,476,247
