In no great amount of surprise, Resident Evil: Extinction has come out on top for this past weekend's box office numbers, bringing in $24 million for Sony, or the equivalent of 40,000 PS3s. The film was in tough competition with the other three openers that weekend, Good Luck Chuck, which grossed $14 million and took second place, Eastern Promises, which grossed $5.7 million and took 5th place, and Sydney White, which only brought in $5.2 million, and took 6th place. All in all, Extinction took in some $8.400 per theater.
The film's budget was an estimated $45 million, so with the first weekend cutting that number in more than half, they might actually turn a profit in the theaters. Resident Evil: Extinction beat out Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse in terms of biggest opening numbers, with the original film grossing $17 million, while Apocalypse garnered $23 million when it debuted. In the domestic market, both of the previous films had managed to turn a profit while still in theaters.
How many of you Destructoid readers ended up contributing to this number?
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9:31 AM on 09.24.2007
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They were running from zombies for 5 years and they STILL don't aim for the head. Heads don't splode much for being a zombie flick. This was full of fail!
Decent zombie movies have fucking zombies.
Excellent Zombie Movies: Dawn of the Dead, Night of the living Dead, Reanimator, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, 28 days later, Zombie 2, The Devil's Rejects
Decent Zombie Movies: Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, 28 weeks later, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead (2004), My Dinner with Andre, House of 1,000 Corpses
Shitty Zombie Movies: Too many to list.
@dvddesign: I saw both House of 1,000 Corpses AND Devil's Rejects and remember zero zombies. Those were straight horror flicks, not zombie flicks. Unless, of course, you count them because they were ROB Zombie flicks. I kill me.
http://www.zerospoilers.com
*cough*
Please no more.
House of 1,000 corpses did have zombies in at the end when they put that girl in the casket and lowered her into the well.
I'm even sadder to say that my $5.50 towards Good Luck Chuck couldn't do enough to push it past Resident Evil. Shitty.
Or maybe I'll really wait until it's on USA or FX lol.