Cregger's Resident Evil Hits Home Video Today

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil has crossed $400 million at the global box office, the highest earner in the franchise's history. Now the film is ready to move off the big screen and into living rooms. According to Fandango, the home video release is set for November 3, when viewers can buy the movie outright or rent it digitally. A Blu-ray physical release will follow at a later date.

Streaming will come later. Netflix is the likely destination, given the multi-billion-dollar pay-one deal the studio and the platform have in place, though no firm streaming date has been announced. Netflix has also been feeding longtime fans in the meantime. It just added Paul W.S. Anderson's original Resident Evil from 2002 and its follow-up, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, to its catalog. They join Afterlife, Retribution, Extinction, and The Final Chapter, plus the 2022 Resident Evil series.

The new movie isn't leaving theaters just yet. It has been announced as returning to IMAX and other premium large format screens, which gives people who missed it a chance to catch it on the biggest screens before it shows up at home.

Cregger has also spoken about the reaction from the hardcore gaming community, which was not kind to his take on the source material. He admitted he should have known better than to expect the fans of the games to embrace his ideas. Still, he said he felt "gratified" by the strong reviews and the box office, which he considers a sign the film connected with a wider audience.

Don't expect more Resident Evil from him. Cregger has said he has ideas for additional entries but won't pursue them. Going forward, he plans to make only original, non-franchise films. His next project is The Flood, a sci-fi movie starring Jennifer Lawrence.