Resident Evil Crosses $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Franchise’s Biggest Film Ever

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has crossed $400 million at the worldwide box office, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s 24-year history. The Sony reboot added about $10 million worldwide in its seventh weekend — $2.5 million in North America and $7.5 million overseas — taking its total to $400 million, split between $157.4 million in North America and $242.6 million internationally. All figures are trade estimates.

The milestone topples the previous franchise record held by 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which finished with $312 million worldwide. The new film is also the first in the series to cross $100 million at the North American box office, and it has now passed recent horror hits including Sinners ($371.6 million), The Nun ($366 million) and Weapons ($270 million). It sits just behind A24’s Backrooms at $400.6 million in the worldwide horror race.

The run began with a franchise-best opening. The film debuted on September 18–20 with $60.2 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, then held steadily through October, helped by strong overseas markets. China is its largest international territory at $71.4 million, followed by the UK at $19.4 million, with Mexico and Japan at $12.7 million each, Australia at $9.6 million, France at $9.5 million and Germany at $9.3 million. It is playing on more than 21,550 screens across 66 overseas markets.

Against a reported production budget of around $75–80 million, the $400 million total makes the reboot clearly profitable for Sony, and it has also become Cregger’s highest-grossing film as a director, surpassing Weapons. No sequel has been officially greenlit, though the result will inevitably fuel talk of one.

Here is the Filmverse take: Resident Evil’s success is a case study in what horror can still do that franchise action cannot — deliver a large return on a comparatively modest budget. The film did not need a $200 million budget or a star-driven opening to reach $400 million; it needed a clear premise, a faithful but fresh take on Raccoon City, and the kind of steady week-to-week holds that horror films earn when word of mouth is good. China doing the heaviest lifting overseas is equally telling — it shows how a horror title can travel when its scares are visual rather than dialogue-dependent. For a genre that Hollywood often treats as a low-budget side bet, this is a $400 million argument for taking it seriously. Read our report on the 2026 global box-office recovery here: https://filmverse.in/2026-global-box-office-35-7-billion-best-since-2019-forecast/

Resident Evil stars Austin Abrams as a medical courier fighting through a viral outbreak in Raccoon City, alongside Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis and Zach Cherry. It is directed by Cregger, who co-wrote it with Shay Hatten, and is produced by Capcom Entertainment, Columbia Pictures and Constantin Film.

Sources: Variety, Deadline, Media Play News — all box-office figures are trade estimates.