Resident Evil reaches $361.1M worldwide as China fuels Cregger’s biggest hit

Deadline puts Cregger's Resident Evil at $361.1M worldwide after five weekends, with $212.7M overseas and China's holiday run driving the climb.

By Fact-checked by Fiona Dalrymple Updated

UPDATED · Oct 26, 2026

Update, October 26, 2026: Deadline now puts Resident Evil at $384.5M worldwide after its sixth weekend, up from the $361.1M in our headline, and its $153.6M domestic total puts it ahead of Weapons. Variety reports the film held No. 1 in China for a third straight weekend, and an unverified Koimoi ranking places it among the all-time top 10 video game adaptations.

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil added $13.3M worldwide over its sixth weekend (Oct. 23-25), lifting its global total to $384.5M, Deadline reports. China carried the load again. Variety reports the film stayed No. 1 there for a third consecutive weekend, and the market now accounts for about $65M of the total.

Third weekend at No. 1 in ChinaCONFIRMED B Variety citing Artisan Gateway data
All-time top 10 game adaptationRUMOR C Koimoi ranking derived from Box Office Mojo
$400M-$425M worldwide finishRUMOR D Koimoi and 411Mania projections

What we know

Deadline’s global report splits the sixth weekend into $10.3M foreign and $3M domestic. Foreign gross now stands at $230.8M.

At home, Deadline has the weekend at about $3M, down 45%, in 2,148 theaters, 557 fewer than the previous frame. Clayface opened at No. 1 with $24M, and Resident Evil slipped out of the top 10 to roughly No. 11.

The domestic milestone is the big one for Cregger. Deadline previously put Weapons at $151.5M domestic and about $270M worldwide. Resident Evil’s $153.6M makes it his biggest domestic grosser, not just his biggest global one.

China keeps delivering. According to Variety, which cites Artisan Gateway data, the film took RMB37.6M ($5.6M) over Oct. 23-25 in a market that grossed $18.6M overall. Its mainland total is $64.8M since its Oct. 5 Golden Week release. Variety reports it first took No. 1 on Oct. 9-11 with RMB81.2M ($12.1M), passing Traces of Justice. It then held the top spot on Oct. 16-18 with RMB62.5M ($9.3M) and a $55.8M cumulative total.

The run started big. Deadline reports a $60M domestic opening on Sept. 18-20, the best ever for both Cregger and the franchise. That more than doubled the previous series record, Afterlife’s $26.6M from 2010. Deadline also notes a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score and a reported $75M budget.

By the end of its fourth weekend, Sony announced a global total of $320.2M ($138.5M domestic, $181.7M international), as reported by Screen Rant.

What we don’t know yet

Where it finishes. No studio forecast has been published, so every end-of-run number you see is a projection.

The decimal places also vary. Deadline lists $153.6M domestic while 411Mania and TwistedVoxel have $153.7M, and worldwide figures sit at $384.4M or $384.5M depending on the outlet. Weapons’ final domestic total is reported as either $151.5M or $151.6M. None of those gaps changes the story.

The all-time top 10 claim has also not been confirmed by Sony or any outlet we treat as a primary source.

What is rumored

Koimoi, a box office aggregator that is not on our approved-outlet list, says that at $384.5M Resident Evil is now No. 10 among the highest-grossing video game adaptations worldwide, pushing Prince of Persia and The Angry Birds Movie out of the top 10. Koimoi bases this on Box Office Mojo data. The underlying gross matches Deadline’s, but the ranking itself is Koimoi’s own derivation, and no approved outlet has stated it.

Koimoi and 411Mania also project a $400M-$425M worldwide finish and about $160M domestic. These are outlet forecasts, not studio guidance, and nobody official has backed them.

What it means

The domestic run is clearly winding down. A $3M weekend, hundreds of lost screens and a slide out of the top 10 mean nearly all remaining growth depends on foreign markets, and China in particular, where weekend grosses are shrinking but still leading the chart.

Against a reported $75M budget, $384.5M is already a remarkable result. Cregger went from Barbarian cult favorite to Weapons breakout to directing the Resident Evil reboot, and he has now topped his own previous hit at home as well as abroad. For a franchise that spent years as a punchline among survival horror fans, that is a delightfully strange place to land, whether or not it ever reaches $400M or earns a confirmed spot in the game adaptation top 10.

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Behind this article

Written by

Rowan Vale covers horror movies and horror news for Ecto-Web: new releases, trailers, box office results, franchise developments and recommendations on what to watch. Rowan tracks studio release calendars and festival lineups so that dated items, from a theatrical opening to a streaming premiere, land on the site with the correct date attached. Trailer breakdowns focus on what the footage actually shows rather than guesswork about plot. Box office pieces use reported figures and name where they came from. Franchise coverage, from long-running slashers to newer series, gets the same treatment: what has been confirmed by a studio, what has only been reported, and what remains rumor.

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