Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Opens to $108.3 Million
IndieWire reports that Zach Cregger's new "Resident Evil" film opened to $108.3 million, a weekend figure the outlet says makes the director of "Weapons" and "Barbarian" one of Hollywood's biggest hitmakers.
The number is the story here. A franchise reboot landing at that scale in its first weekend puts Cregger in rare company among directors working in horror-adjacent studio filmmaking.
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The interesting question with a number like this is casting. Cregger built his reputation on original, tightly controlled horror premises, then stepped into a legacy franchise. If the opening holds, studios will read it as proof that an auteur can be handed a known IP and deliver.
One weekend doesn't prove a pattern. Opening grosses reward marketing and built-in franchise recognition as much as they reward the director, so the same number could just as easily be credited to the brand.