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‘Resident Evil’ Becoming Zach Cregger’s Highest Grossing Movie Ever At $280M+ WW Boosted By $35M China Debut

‘Resident Evil’ Becoming Zach Cregger’s Highest Grossing Movie Ever At $280M+ WW Boosted By $35M China Debut

EXCLUSIVE: By the end of this week or sooner, Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil, will become Zach Cregger’s highest grossing movie ever at the box office, surpassing his previous high, New Line’s Weapons which ended its run at $270M WW. This all comes with the theatrical release of Resident Evil in China on Monday. Through Monday and […]

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Oct 7, 2026 · byDeadline
How Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands out from all other game adaptations

How Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil stands out from all other game adaptations

There’s no Leon, Claire or Ada Wong in Cregger’s adaptation. Instead, it re-creates something more fundamental – the strange, terrifying experience of actually playing the game • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’ve been surprised by the number of Resident Evil fans complaining on social media about Zach Cregger’s cinematic adaptation of the survival horror series. “It’s not a real Resident Evil movie,” they’ve claimed. Were we watching the same film? Certainly, it doesn’t feature any of the familiar heroes – there’s no Leon, no Claire, no Ada Wong – and there’s a distinct lack of recognisable antagonists and well-known locations. Despite all of this, Cregger’s interpretation is one of the most accurate and interesting video game films ever made. On the surface, it’s about a zombifying virus that gets accidentally released in Raccoon City by the Umbrella Corporation. These are, of course, the foundations of the Resi mythos. More interestingly, Cregger seeks to replicate and explore the structural and narrative conventions of the series. In the film, the player character, hapless courier Bryan Hodukavich, is thrust into a viral outbreak, with no weapons and no idea what’s going on. He is then submerged into an uncanny shadow world of escalating peril and body horror. The film takes us through a series of locations dragged straight from the games – an abandoned farmhouse, a road tunnel crammed with abandoned cars, a hospital and the obligatory sewer level . As he progresses, Bryan finds increasingly powerful weapons, from a handgun to an assault rifle – but he is always short on ammo. And there are typewriters in at least two scenes! Continue reading...

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Zach Cregger
Sep 30, 2026 · byThe Guardian
‘Resident Evil’ Breaks Franchise Opening Records & Even Some Cumes With $108.3M WW; Also Zach Cregger’s Highest – Global Box Office

‘Resident Evil’ Breaks Franchise Opening Records & Even Some Cumes With $108.3M WW; Also Zach Cregger’s Highest – Global Box Office

TriStar Pictures/Constantin Film/Davis Films’ Resident Evil rang up a massive $108.3M worldwide, not only the best start the franchise has ever seen, but also Zach Cregger’s biggest start as filmmaker surpassing the $70M WW reported opening of last year’s Weapons. In addition, the opening alone for Resident Evil beats the global final of the original […]

Zach Cregger
Sep 20, 2026 · byDeadline