'Resident Evil' Breaks Franchise Opening Records & Even Some Cumes With $108.3M WW; Also Zach Cregger's Highest – Global Box Office

The new Resident Evil movie opened with $108.3m worldwide. That is the best start in the history of the series. It is also the biggest opening for director Zach Cregger. His earlier film Weapons opened with about $70m. Opening weekend alone beat the total earnings of the first Resident Evil film from 2002. It also easily beat the 2021 reboot Welcome to Raccoon City. The highest-earning title in the series is still The Final Chapter from 2016. That film took in $312m.

Resident Evil began as a video game series in the 1990s. Hollywood turned it into a long-running film franchise. Some of the films did very well, while others lost money. Zach Cregger is known for tense, scary films. Horror movies have performed strongly at cinemas in recent years. Films based on games have also found new audiences. Studios now look closely at opening weekend numbers. They use them to decide on sequels.

This matters because it shows how a popular video game can become a hit movie. It also tells you what is filling cinemas right now.