‘Clayface’ Tops the Global Box Office as ‘Resident Evil’ Hits $400 Million

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Clayface wins the world, not quite the US

DC Studios’ Clayface opened Oct. 23 to $24 million and held up well in its second weekend, falling to $10.4 million domestically. It actually won Halloween day itself with $4.2 million, but You Can See Everything edged it over the full three days (Deadline (domestic); IndieWire). PCP covered the opening in ‘Clayface’ Oozes to No. 1 With $24 Million.

Overseas, the film added $12.4 million for a $38.9 million international total. Its worldwide gross of $83 million is now almost double its reported $44 million production budget (Deadline).

You Can See Everything now stands at $63.9 million domestically after three weekends (IndieWire).

Resident Evil joins the horror elite

Sony’s reboot opened in September to a series-best $60 million domestically and $108 million globally, and it stayed a draw through October (Variety; Box Office Mojo). Its top markets are China ($71.4 million), the U.K. ($19.4 million), Mexico ($12.7 million) and Japan ($12.7 million) (Deadline).

Deadline notes the film is now ahead of Sinners ($371.6 million) and The Nun ($366 million). It is $600,000 short of A24’s biggest movie, Backrooms ($400.6 million), and about $30 million behind The Exorcist ($430 million) (Deadline).

Sony made the film for $75 million, according to Variety, so it will turn a healthy profit. It stars Austin Abrams as a medical courier fighting through an outbreak in Raccoon City (Variety). Our opening-weekend story is Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Opens to $60 Million.