{"id":852321,"date":"2026-09-18T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852321\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:00:10","slug":"box-office-resident-evil-has-8-8-million-in-previews-for-zach-cregger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852321\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: Resident Evil Has $8.8 Million in Previews for Zach Cregger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe zombie virus is spreading to the box office as Sony\u2019s \u201cResident Evil<\/a>\u201d reboot is taking over this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom \u201cWeapons\u201d director Zach Cregger, the new and original take on the horror video game series has made $8.8 million in previews at the box office. It\u2019s aiming to make $40 million to $50 million domestically this weekend, but some projections put it closer to $60 million due to positive reviews. The movie cost $75 million to produce, so it\u2019s on pace to become a back-to-back, box-office hit for Cregger after his horror movie \u201cWeapons\u201d ignited last year with $270 million globally after opening with $43 million. In comparison, \u201cWeapons\u201d started out with $5.7 million in previews.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cResident Evil\u201d will mark the largest opening for the auteur horror director and the largest of the video game series after it has run for eight movies. The series started out as a 1996 horror video game that has spawned several sequels, spinoffs and remakes, in addition to adaptation across film and TV. Milla Jovovich starred in eight movies, helmed by director Paul W.S. Anderson, across the 2000s and 2010s that were once the highest-grossing video game movies (until they were dethroned by the \u201cSuper Mario\u201d films). Currently, the franchise\u2019s biggest movie is 2010\u2019s \u201cResident Evil: Afterlife,\u201d which opened with $26 million domestically and finished its run with $300 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the new movie, \u201cWeapons\u201d star Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier who delivers a mysterious package to a zombie-infested town. It will easily take the No. 1 spot at the box office after last week\u2019s \u201cPractical Magic 2\u201d failed to spark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The zombie virus is spreading to the box office as Sony\u2019s \u201cResident Evil\u201d reboot is taking over this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,49933],"class_list":["post-852321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-resident-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}