{"id":3765,"date":"2026-09-21T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T09:06:53","slug":"resident-evil-opens-with-60-million-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/resident-evil-opens-with-60-million-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil\u2019 Opens With $60 Million in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The horror franchise is back \u2014 and audiences are turning out in force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sony Pictures\u2019 latest \u201cResident Evil\u201d has made a powerful debut at the North American box office, collecting an estimated $60 million during its opening weekend.<\/strong> The film played across 3,684 theaters in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directed by <strong>Zach Cregger<\/strong> and starring <strong>Austin Abrams<\/strong>, the new installment delivered the franchise\u2019s biggest opening weekend to date. International audiences added another <strong>$48.3 million<\/strong>, taking the movie\u2019s reported worldwide opening to approximately <strong>$108.3 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strong opening puts <em>Resident Evil<\/em> at the top of the weekend box office and gives the long-running video-game adaptation franchise a significant return to theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horror franchise is back \u2014 and audiences are turning out in force. Sony Pictures\u2019 latest \u201cResident Evil\u201d has made a powerful debut at the North American box office, collecting an estimated $60 million during its opening weekend. The film played across 3,684 theaters in the United States and Canada. Directed by Zach Cregger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo1.evirtualservices.com\/mediacriticsandassociates\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}