Resident Evil Box Office Set To Overtake Disney's Moana Flop

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot is about $10 million away from beating Moana's entire North American run, and it could get there by Sunday. That's the number everyone in the trades is circling right now, and it's a genuinely odd one, because Moana cost roughly $250 million to make. Resident Evil cost $75 million.

Friday numbers first. The horror film pulled in $3.6 million on its third Friday domestically, a franchise record for that slot, even though it fell 48.2% from the previous Friday and shed 425 theatres along the way. Decline and expansion losses aside, the film's domestic cume now sits at $116 million. Industry trackers have it pegged for another $11 million to $14 million across the three-day weekend, which would push it past Moana's lifetime domestic figure of $126.2 million, per box office database numbers cited by Koimoi.

That Moana number is the real story underneath this one. Disney's live-action take on its own animated hit, starring Dwayne Johnson, has been flagged as one of the studio's bigger 2026 misfires, a $250 million production that never recovered its costs. Resident Evil clearing its North American total would mean a movie made for $175 million less ends up with more money in the till domestically. Budget-to-box-office math doesn't usually work out this cleanly in either direction, and when it does, studios notice.