A Seven-Year-Old 'Avengers' Movie Knocked 'Resident Evil' Out of First Place

'Avengers: Endgame Encore' took $26 million, while 'Resident Evil' slid hard in its second weekend and still passed $100 million.

A seven-year-old "Avengers" movie knocked "Resident Evil" out of first place at the box office this weekend. It took an estimated $26 million over the Sept. 25-27 weekend.

"Avengers: Endgame Encore," Disney and Marvel Studios' re-release of the Russo brothers' "Avengers: Endgame," opened in 3,060 theaters, Deadline reported on Sunday, Sept. 27. It's a warm-up act for the next Avengers movie. It just outran every new release in the country anyway.

That topped last year's 20th-anniversary reissue of "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," which opened to $25.4 million. The all-time re-release record still belongs to the 1997 "Star Wars" return, at $35.9 million.

The bait is new footage. Deadline said Imax and Disney's own Infinity Vision premium screens show six minutes and 17 seconds of extra material. Regular screens get two minutes and six seconds. Fans paid up for the long cut, and premium screens drove 60% of the weekend's money.

Latino and Hispanic moviegoers made up the biggest share of the crowd at 36%, according to the PostTrak audience polling the outlet cited.

The zombies hung on

"Resident Evil," director Zach Cregger's Sony reboot of the horror franchise, slid to second with $23.3 million, down 61% from its opening. After ten days, its domestic total is $103.4 million. By Deadline's count, it's the 19th movie this year to pass $100 million in the U.S. and Canada.

The Avengers won the weekend almost entirely on Friday.

"Encore" pulled $11.2 million that day to $7 million for "Resident Evil." The horror movie's Friday was down 73%. Then the zombies came back. "Resident Evil" took $9.8 million on Saturday to the Avengers' $8.6 million. On Sunday it won again, $6.5 million to $6.2 million. Deadline had warned before the weekend that reissues can be front-loaded, and the daily chart looks exactly like that.

Deadline called the "Resident Evil" result a great hold, and it came while the horror movie was sharing its Imax and premium screens with the Avengers all weekend. It's still on pace to become Cregger's biggest film, passing the $151.5 million "Weapons" made domestically.

A crowded weekend

All films together took an estimated $122.3 million. That's the strongest 39th weekend of the year since 2015. That year, "Hotel Transylvania 2" led a frame worth $137.8 million. One distribution executive told Deadline the weekend was "a statistical anomaly."

Brad Pitt's survival drama "The Heart of the Beast," from Paramount and director David Ayer, opened third with $20 million. Its reported net budget is $82 million. A24's "Primetime," with Robert Pattinson in a story about "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen, took $19.1 million. That one cost a reported $15 million net.

Burbank carried "Primetime." AMC Burbank was its top-grossing theater in the country, with more than $108,000 through Saturday. The same multiplex led every theater for DreamWorks Animation's "Forgotten Island," which opened fifth with $12.8 million. It was also one of three Los Angeles screens, along with AMC at the Grove and AMC Century City, where Amazon MGM Studios opened the Mahershala Ali hitman movie "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother."

The next number to watch belongs to "Endgame" itself. At $2.799 billion worldwide, it sits $124 million behind "Avatar" as the biggest movie ever. Disney is waiting to see whether the re-release can close that gap before "Avengers: Doomsday" opens Dec. 18.

Source: deadline.com, retrieved September 27, 2026.