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SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Without Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick in the marketplace, the Thanksgiving box office was much lighter than previous holidays, grossing an estimated $141.3M over 5-days, off 46% from 2019’s pre-pandemic holiday over the same period of time. Two family movies, Disney’s animated Encanto, which banked…

Disney will continue to embrace the theatrical window over the Thanksgiving stretch with the Colombia-set animated musical Encanto. The film directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Charise Castro Smith is looking to hook families with a $35M-$40M five-day domestic start and another $35M+ overseas as it debuts…

The Resident Evil films (six films from 2002-2016) starring Milla Jovovich have earned over $1 billion worldwide. The action movies were well-liked by international audiences but otherwise shunned by hardcore fans of the Resident Evil video game. When Resident Evil was first released, fans expected a faithful film…

It’s not easy to reboot a movie franchise, especially one which is close to 20 years old and based on a video game series that’s 25 years old. But when it came to tackling a new iteration of Constantin/Screen Gems’ Resident Evil after longtime collaborators filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich hung up…

Sony’s Screen Gems and Constantin Film have released the official trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, which is being billed as an origin story of the Capcom video game that previously spawned six films that grossed $1.2 billion in global box office. The new action horror pic is set to be released in…

Update: Screen Gems and Constantin’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is going to Wednesday Nov. 24, leaving its Labor Day weekend release. The zombie video game feature adaptation reboot will be up against United Artists Releasing/MGM’s House of Gucci and Disney animated feature Encanto on its new date. The…