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This should be the last Alice outing. This is like the 2nd time they've tried to sorta retire that character.
Screen Gems/Constantin Films’ Resident Evil: The Final Chapter blazed into China this weekend with a $94.3M debut to score the biggest-ever FSS opening in the market for an import. The Milla Jovovich-led epic zombie battle is also the No. 2 FSS launch for all films, behind 2015’s Lost In Hong Kong. As Anita Busch reported on Friday, the Paul W.S. Anderson-helmed sixth installment had an opening day Middle Kingdom gross of $33M, the third-highest ever for a Hollywood film.
The sensational China debut for The Final Chapter — whose title may end up being premature given these outsize grosses — catapults the market into the lead position, overtaking traditional No. 1 hub Japan. The film was released in China through Constantin’s local partner Leomus Pictures and benefited from a very targeted campaign with early in-cinema materials and advertising during the heavily-trafficked Chinese New Year holidays. Jovovich also attended Hong Kong’s CineAsia where she met members Chinese exhibition community and received the franchise achievement award with her director/husband Anderson.
The $40M movie was built for international audiences and is showing its strength at offshore turnstiles with a $212M cume to date which makes it the biggest of the franchise on a constant currency basis. In total this weekend, the gross was $97M from 21,200+ screens in 51 markets. Including domestic, the worldwide cume is $239M. The current leader among its predecessors is 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife with $296.2M.
In late January, Final Chapter helped push the full series across $1B worldwide to become the biggest video-game-based franchise of all time.
Some franchises just translate better in China.China has something against Star Wars, haha. Rogue One barely got 60 million over there.
China has something against Star Wars, haha. Rogue One barely got 60 million over there.
why do the Chinese eat this crap up?
I'm gonna be so pissed if we get another one. Enough. Let it die. I don't even want a faithful reboot anymore. Just let it die.
the film is literally called the final chapter
the film is literally called the final chapter
They don't have the history with the characters the rest of the world has. They didn't see the ORIGINAL TRILOGY until after the PREQUEL TRILOGY was released....and the PT turned off a lot of people...so not a giant fan base there like everywhere else.
See I've heard that it's the other way around. They saw the Prequels first and actually enjoyed them more than the Originals, and the current turn off is because the newer films have veered off from the asthetic and style of the PT.
The one before this was supposed to be "the final chapter"
The China numbers are insane, and I thought it wouldn't hit over $300 million worldwide.
Its great for Sony and I hope they realize that with a more faithful adaptation they could earn more. So reboot with adapting Re1 and introduce Chris, Jill, Barry, Wesker, Rebecca, Forest, Enrico and thatguy that was beaten by a large snake.
the film is literally called the final chapter
I finally watched this last night and all of that sums up what I was going to say. All the bad editing, the poorly thought out story, how quite obviously rushed it was. This felt like the dregs of an empty tank being scraped together in order to sell one last movie. Which of course is the truth.What a B movie this was. Acting atrocious (beside Iain Glen who looked like Oscar nominee compared to rest of the cast), directing below average, script no existent, actions scenes choped off like there is no tommorow. Glad this franchise ended as I silently waiting for true reboot with original characters and storyline. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed some of few popcorn Resident Evil flicks we had.
One the producers for the REboot, he worked on RE2 (game), said they want to go more action-oriented with the REboot. Moreso than the Anderson movies.