Resident Evil Movie Franchise To Pass $1 Billion

While Resident Evil: The Final Chapter might not have won Friday’s domestic box office, it’s sure winning the long game.

After grossing $35 million in Japan since December 23, the franchise is slated to pass the $1 billion mark after the weekend concludes. The Final Chapter is opening up in additional territories in Asia and Latin America this weekend, along with North America. As of Wednesday, the franchise was already at $954 million (via Deadline).

As for The Final Chapter itself, the film is doing quite well internationally and is expected to bring in $30 million towards an $80 million total. The previous films have always done most of their business overseas.

Josh Greenstein, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution at Sony Pictures, tells me, “Resident Evil is an event film internationally… It’s been five years since the last film, and the global fanbase has been eagerly anticipating its return. Screen Gems has created the highest-grossing video game-based franchise of all time. We look forward to a strong rollout.”

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, humanity is on its last legs after Alice is betrayed by Wesker in Washington D.C. As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, Alice must return to where the nightmare began – Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in an action packed battle with undead hordes and new mutant monsters. Between losing her superhuman abilities and Umbrella’s impending attack, this will be Alice’s most difficult adventure as she fights to save humanity, which is on the brink of oblivion.

Milla Jovovich reprises her starring role as Alice. Other headline cast includes Ali Larter (Heroes, Resident Evil: Afterlife) as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Resident Evil: Extinction) in the role of Dr. Alexander Isaacs, Shawn Roberts (Edge of Darkness, Resident Evil: Afterlife) as Albert Wesker, Australian actress Ruby Rose (Orange is the New Black), who has a huge social media presence, as Abigail, Eoin Macken (The Night Shift) as Doc, Cuban-American actor William Levy, one of People en Español’s reigning 50 Most Beautiful, as Christian, Fraser James (Law & Order: UK) as Michael, and Japanese model and TV personality, Rola, as Cobalt.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is in theaters now.

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