Seven years after it first ruled theaters, Avengers: Endgame is No. 1 again. The Endgame Encore re-release, which comes back with extra footage, grossed $26.1 million ($26,106,643) from 3,060 theaters over the Sept. 25–27 weekend. That works out to $8,532 per screen, according to The Numbers’ updated weekend chart. Sony’s Resident Evil, the new Capcom adaptation, took second with $23.0 million ($23,012,848) in its second weekend and pushed its domestic total to $103.2 million.
Those are the updated Monday numbers. By Monday, The Numbers had swapped Sunday’s rounded studio estimates for exact grosses, and the final figures moved both films. Endgame came in slightly above its $26 million Sunday estimate. Resident Evil came in below the $23.3 million Sunday estimate that Box Office Mojo was still showing when RCG checked around 5 PM CT Monday.
Endgame won the weekend, Resident Evil won the days
Endgame built its lead on Friday. The Numbers’ daily figures have it at $11.3 million that day, with Resident Evil fourth at $7.0 million. After that the video game movie took over. Resident Evil finished No. 1 on Saturday with $9.8 million to Endgame’s $8.7 million. On Sunday it edged out the Avengers again by less than $30,000, $6,173,534 to $6,145,942. That kind of front-loading is typical for a fan-driven event re-release, and it’s a good sign for a horror film in its second weekend.
Variety reported Sunday studio estimates of another $60 million overseas for the Encore, which would make an $86 million global weekend. FranchiseRe’s David A. Gross told Variety that “re-releases rarely earn more than $10 million,” calling the Encore “an effective way to build early word-of-mouth.” The word-of-mouth he means is for Avengers: Doomsday, which Variety notes opens Dec. 18.
The weekend lifts Endgame’s lifetime domestic total to $884.5 million, which The Numbers’ all-time chart ranks third. Ahead of it are Star Wars: The Force Awakens at $936.7 million and Spider-Man: Brand New Day at $950.6 million. Variety puts Endgame’s original worldwide run at $2.799 billion, second all-time behind Avatar’s $2.9 billion.
Resident Evil clears $100 million domestic
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil fell 62% from its $60.2 million franchise-best opening. It played in 3,684 theaters and averaged $6,247 per location. The Numbers now has it at $103.2 million domestic and $94.0 million international, or $197.2 million worldwide after 10 days, against a $75 million production budget. Variety’s Sunday estimates had put the global total at $196.5 million. Variety also noted the film has already outgrossed the entire domestic runs of its franchise predecessors.
The film comes from Sony with Constantin Film and PlayStation Productions. It stars Austin Abrams as a medical courier making a delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital. That’s a pretty good setup for a 93-minute night out in Capcom’s most famous zombie town.
The rest of the chart
- Heart of the Beast opened third with $20.0 million.
- Primetime debuted fourth with $19.2 million from 2,874 theaters.
- Forgotten Island opened fifth with $13.0 million.
- Practical Magic 2 took $5.6 million in its third weekend.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day slipped just 37% to $4.05 million in its ninth weekend, for $950.6 million domestic.
The Numbers counts $123.5 million across 55 reporting films. Both of the top two slots went to comic book and video game IP.
