Resident Evil Reboot Scores the Biggest Opening in Franchise History
Summary
Sony's $75 million R-rated adaptation opened to $60 million domestic and $108.3 million worldwide, easily outgrossing the lifetime total of every earlier film in the series
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot opened to an estimated $60 million domestically and $108.3 million worldwide over the weekend, according to Sony's studio estimates reported by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. That domestic figure alone beats the entire lifetime domestic gross of the franchise's previous high point, 2010's Resident Evil: Afterlife, which topped out at $60.1 million over its full run. It is also the biggest opening of Cregger's career, ahead of Weapons' $43.5 million debut in August 2025, and the widest-ever start for an R-rated video-game adaptation, surpassing Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu's PG-rated openings. The film earned a 96 percent Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ CinemaScore, both series bests by a wide margin; no earlier live-action Resident Evil film cleared 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It played in 3,684 North American theaters and drew a younger, male-skewing audience, per Rentrak analyst Paul Dergarabedian. The film also took a share of the specialty and premium-large-format screens that had been carrying Practical Magic 2, which fell 75 percent in its second weekend.