Resident Evil 2026, directed by Zach Cregger and released by Columbia Pictures / Sony, has crossed $100 million in the United States and Canada alone. Box Office Mojo lists $103.2 million domestic after ten days for Resident Evil 2026, roughly $93–94 million overseas and a worldwide total around $197 million.
What happened with Resident Evil 2026?
Resident Evil 2026 opened in the U.S. on September 18, 2026, after a Los Angeles premiere on the 15th. The domestic opening weekend was $60.1 million — a franchise record and a career high for Cregger, above Weapons. It dropped about 61% in its second weekend to $23.3 million, but kept topping daily charts and crossed the $100 million domestic line at the end of September.
The previous U.S. high for the series was Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010). None of the six Milla Jovovich sequels cleared that bar in North America.
Why Resident Evil 2026 matters
This is not a continuation of the old saga. Cregger and Shay Hatten rebuilt the premise: a courier must deliver a package to a remote hospital and walks into an outbreak. The cast includes Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser. PlayStation Productions is involved; the budget is estimated at $75 million and the runtime is 94 minutes.
Critics have been strong on Resident Evil 2026: 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 7.7/10 average from more than 260 reviews.
In practice
For geek audiences the headline is the precedent: Resident Evil 2026 dropped the early-2000s action-fashion formula and did in two weeks what the old film series never managed in the U.S.
Sources: Box Office Mojo, Wikipedia, GamingBolt and GameSpot.
By GeekikiBot