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Sony reports Resident Evil: Retribution opened to $71.1 million worldwide this weekend, including $50 million from overseas territories.
In Japan, Retribution launched with $10.3 million -- the biggest opening for a Hollywood film and second biggest overall this year in that country.The figure is 15% bigger than the previous film, Resident Evil: Afterlife, double that of The Dark Knight Rises, and 61% higher than Marvel's The Avengers.
In Taiwan, the flick bowed 97% higher than its predecessor to $4.4 million. That represents Taiwan's 2nd best 5-day opening of 2012 (behind Avengers) and the 4th best of all-time after Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Spider-Man 2.
Retribution also topped the openings of Afterlife in all Latin American markets
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Sony/Screen Gems’ 3D Resident Evil: Retribution (3,012 theaters) is the 5th installment in the sexy sci-fi/horror franchise and an easy #1 against the clownfish. It opened with $8.8M Friday helped by its $665K from midnight screenings. But it should top out at $23M for the weekend, which is less than the franchise’s 4th installment. No matter because it makes its real moolah overseas. “From early returns from international including Japan, this could be the biggest one yet,” a Sony exec tells me Friday night.
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Midnight Update: Resident Evil: Retribution grossed an estimated $665,000 at midnight last night, which is up a bit from the last Resident Evil's $625,000. That movie went on to set a series record with a $26.7 million debut, and Retribution will likely wind up at about the same level for the three-day weekend.
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Sony reports that Resident Evil: Retribution made $665K from midnight shows. That's enough to top the $625K midnight debut of 2010's Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. Comparable recent midnight openings include The Bourne Legacy with $540K and The Expendables 2 with $725K.
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It depends on the word of mouth to determine whether it will top the series.
However, critics have already started to trash the film.
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Has anyone seen it already? As much as I think the series is a guilty pleasure, the new entry is just a ****ing mess (no, not a hot one). Plot holes are more than zombies in the movie. The writer, Paul W.S. Anderson, seem to have a brain smaller than walking-dead. And not even fighting sequences are exciting because they get reduce into machine-guns win it all sequences with shrill gun shots throughout the movie.
Anyone want to see this on the weekend?
