Sunday, September 20, 2026

Box Office: Horror Film “Resident Evil” Makes More in First Weekend than “Practical Magic 2” and “Coyote Vs. Acme” Each So Far

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Showbiz is a funny world.

Over the weekend, horror film “Resident Evil” swooped in and did what other recent films could not achieve.

The new release raked in $60 million from Thursday previews through today.

That’s considerably more than both “Practical Magic 2” and “Coyote vs. Acme” have made in their total release time.

If only those two had been more frightening!

Still, “Coyote” has done very well considering it almost never came out. At $54 million, you can’t complain.

On the nostalgia front, the 40th anniversary of the cinematic classic, “Transformers,” brought in $3.1 million. That’s $4.1 million since it was re-rel4eased. The crackling dialogue and cinematography are well chronicled in movie history.

At the lower end of things, “The Dog Stars” made $20,000 in 1,030 theaters. Even actual dogs avoided it,

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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