Quick answer: Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has earned about $400 million worldwide ($157.4 million in North America and $242.6 million overseas) after seven weekends, making it the highest grossing Resident Evil movie ever. It cost about $75 million to make and arrives on digital on November 3. Current as of Nov 2, 2026.
Sony’s Resident Evil reboot just did something none of the six Milla Jovovich films managed. Zach Cregger’s take on the Capcom series has reached $400 million at the global box office, according to Sony’s weekend figures reported by Variety and Deadline on November 1.
The numbers
- Worldwide: about $400 million after seven weekends
- North America: $157.4 million
- International: $242.6 million from 66 markets
- Opening weekend: $60 million domestic and $108 million worldwide in September
- Budget: about $75 million, per Variety
- Top markets: China $71.4 million, UK $19.4 million, Mexico and Japan $12.7 million each
The seventh weekend alone added $10 million worldwide, $2.5 million of it in North America. The Numbers lists the running total at $399.999 million, so expect the next update to clear the line on paper too.
A franchise record by a wide margin
The previous series high was Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which made about $312 million worldwide in 2016. The new film has now beaten that by close to $90 million, and its $60 million domestic opening more than doubled the old franchise best of $26 million set by Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010.
It is also Cregger’s biggest film by a lot. His 2025 hit Weapons made about $270 million worldwide, and Barbarian made $46 million. Deadline notes the reboot has passed Sinners and The Nun, sits about $600,000 behind A24’s Backrooms, and is roughly $30 million short of The Exorcist’s lifetime gross.
Why this one worked
The last attempt, 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, made about $42 million worldwide. That film tried to restage the games scene by scene. Cregger went the other way: an original story about Bryan, a medical courier played by Austin Abrams, caught in one night of the Raccoon City outbreak. Fans got the world and the Umbrella connection without a checklist of cameos, and general horror audiences got a Cregger movie that kept selling tickets all through October.
Our take: this is the strongest argument yet that game adaptations land when a filmmaker gets room to tell a new story inside a famous world. It is a far better result than the Street Fighter movie’s $51 million global start last month, and it gives Sony and Capcom an easy case for a sequel, which neither has announced.
How to watch it at home
Resident Evil is set for digital purchase and premium rental on Tuesday, November 3, with a $24.99 purchase price listed on storefronts such as Prime Video, according to Forbes. Its first subscription streaming home has not been dated.
For Capcom, the timing helps. The publisher just posted a record first half led by Resident Evil 4 and Requiem, and the RE2, RE3 and RE4 remakes are on Switch 2 for anyone the movie pulls back into the series.
