Resident Evil: Extinction Does Quite Well At The Weekend Box Office

Summer 2007 has been all about the high-profile threequel - with Spider-Man, Shrek, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Bourne all bringing in big weekend box office money - but don't think that the trend's finished yet.

That's because the Resident Evil threequel, Resident Evil: Extinction, has only just come out. And as the year's most hotly-anticipated threequel about zombies sort of invented by spookily distant young girls where you're almost guaranteed to briefly see a vagina at some point, Resident Evil: Extinction has done the inevitable and topped the US weekend box office. So if your neighbourhood has been eerily stripped of hormonal ponytailed young male geeks with bumfluff moustaches who regularly wear black T-shirts with pictures of wolves on them, that's where they've been.

The Resident Evil series of movies has long been one of the most successful videogame movie franchises ever, and Resident Evil: Extinction's impressive entry at the top of the US weekend box office just proves its long-lasting appeal. And it's an appeal that couldn't be easier to locate. Zombies, guns, explosions and the promise of a vaguely sexy girl possibly taking her knickers off in a vastly gratuitous way for less than one second - how could a movie like that ever fail? Perhaps if The Jane Austin Book Club had more zombies or minges in it, it wouldn't have paled so spectacularly against Resident Evil: Extinction at the weekend box office. Speaking of which, here's this week's US weekend box office top five:

1 - Resident Evil: Extinction (And just in case the zombies/ guns/ vagina combo is wearing off, Resident Evil: Extinction has added the annoying woman off Heroes to the mix. It seems to have paid off, too - but not as much as if she'd been shot in the jaw with a bazooka three seconds into the movie. If that happened, we'd have doubled Resident Evil: Extinction's weekend box office tally all by ourselves) $24,000,000

2 - Good Luck Chuck (Nothing to do with I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Good Luck Chuck is actually the story of how Jessica Alba continues to infuriate her male fans by starring in a pointlessly safe romantic comedy that doesn't involve any nipples whatsoever) $14,000,000

3 - The Brave One (Minor criminal? Watch out - Jodie Foster's gonna get you, and then go home and stare at the ground really really intensely for 15 minutes straight, much like Kevin Bacon did the other week) $7,425,000

4 - 3:10 To Yuma (Such has been the success of 3:10 To Yuma at the weekend box office that a sequel is already in the works. 3:11 To Yuma will feature the same harshly realistic tone and moral ambiguity of the original, with the added inclusion of a cartoon rapping antelope called Jazzy Horn MC) $6,350,000

5 - Eastern Promises (A movie that plumbs the depths of London's murky Russian underworld in a starkly realistic way. Already Eastern Promises has been a critical darling and looks set to become yet another cult clas… oh, OK, it's the film where you get to see Aragorn out of Lord of The Rings' cock and balls. Happy now?) $5,747,000

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