{"id":896608,"date":"2026-09-18T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896608\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:10:22","slug":"reviews-boost-resident-evil-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896608\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews Boost &#8220;Resident Evil&#8221; Box-Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/reviews-boost-resident-evil-box-office.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sony Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/reviews-boost-resident-evil-box-office.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"reviews-boost-resident-evil-box-office\"\/><\/a>Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the great critical reviews, sales for Zach Cregger\u2019s \u201cResident Evil\u201d film are surging, with box-office estimates going up.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/boxoffice\/comments\/1wj2rft\/sales_are_surging_for_resident_evil_and_starting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EmpireCity Box Office<\/a>, projections of a $40-50 million domestic debut are being revised upward, with numbers now pointing to a potential $60 million opening or more.<\/p>\n<p>With a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and 79 on Metacritic, the film has not only easily landed the best reviews of the franchise to date but some of the best for a horror film in some time.<\/p>\n<p>It also looks set to open to the best box-office numbers of the series as well, even as it has come under fire from a section of the game fanbase who aren\u2019t happy with it essentially being a standalone film that ignores the lore and doesn\u2019t include any familiar characters.<\/p>\n<p>Those dismissals are expected to be drowned out by walk-ups curious to check it out after they learn it requires no previous familiarity with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also another hit for Sony right as \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d has finally cooled down at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Pictures has Cregger\u2019s next film, \u201cThe Flood,\u201d which will launch in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/flanagan-gives-the-mist-dark-tower-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flanagan Gives \u201cThe Mist,\u201d \u201cDark Tower\u201d Updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/universal-sticks-with-gibneys-musk-overseas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Sticks With Gibney\u2019s \u201cMusk\u201d Overseas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures In the wake of the great critical reviews, sales for Zach Cregger\u2019s \u201cResident Evil\u201d film are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-896608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}