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Back in 1998, director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt made the infamous sci-fi action movie
Soldier, starring Kurt Russell. A notorious flop, it gave Anderson some downtime to consider his next move. I couldn’t get hold of Paul for weeks, Bolt told
Empire in 2016. Eventually he returned my calls and I asked him what he’d been doing and he said, ‘I’ve been playing
Resident Evil! We have to make the movie!’ He’d literally been up all night for weeks playing this game.
That film arrived in 2002 and has spawned, to date, five increasingly bonkers sequels and a reboot that’s due in December. The six films so far have taken more than a billion dollars at the international box office. For a while it was officially the most successful horror film franchise of all time, until James Wan’s
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Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the
Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
When we think of movie franchises, we tend to focus on the monster blockbusters the ones that cost upward of $250 million and bring in around a billion dollars. But there’s a world outside of Pixar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe,
Star Wars, the
Resident Evil is fairly major.
Over the span of six films in 15 years, the franchise, based on a popular video game series, has grossed $1.2 billion not bad for movies that are usually only budgeted at around $60 million. It all got started with the first installment,