&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Resident Evil reboot dominates box office with record $60 million debut")
Resident Evil, a horror movie based on a video game franchise, swept the North American box office with a $60 million opening weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The Sony-distributed movie is directed by Zach Cregger and stars Austin Abrams, who plays a medical courier battling mutant creatures to deliver a package to a remote hospital.
Resident Evil displaced last week's top performer, Warner Bros' Practical Magic 2, a long-awaited sequel starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, into a distant second place.
The story of the modern-day witches, who face a curse that sees any man they fall in love with doomed to an early death, took $12.2 million after last weekend knocking Sony's Spider-Man from its weeks-long perch at the top.
Spidey took another $6.5 million this weekend, bringing its total take in the United States and Canada to $944.5 million. It was followed by another of 2026's strongest performers, The Odyssey, which took $4.9 million.
For the second consecutive weekend, Coyote vs Acme took fifth place, with Will Forte and an animated Wile E. Coyote snaring another $4.5 million for Falling Forward Films.
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Rounding out the top 10 were:
"The Runner" ($3.2 million)
"Daniel and the Fiery Furnace" ($3.1 million)
"Transformers: The Movie" ($3.1 million)
"The Weight" ($2.3 million)
"Buddy" ($1.9 million)