LegendZilla wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:54 am
^I think that the first
Resident Evil film owes much of its success to the fact that
28 Days Later came out the same year. Had both films not been released in 2002, zombies may not have proliferated quite to the extent they have now.
The first
Resident Evil was released in the US in March and the UK in July, while
28 Days Later was released in the UK in November and didn't hit the US until January of the following year. I can't really see how the latter film could have helped the box office of the former.
Proximity of releases for similar titles is rarely considered a boon to either. For example, sticking to zombie movies, George Romero attributed the relative box office failure of
Day of the Dead to its having been beaten to theaters by
Return of the Living Dead.
Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world.