Box Office: September 14-16, 2012: RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION

Box Office September 14-16, 2012. Resident Evil: Retribution premiered in the Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $21.1 Million. Finding Nemo (3D) premiered in Second Place with $17.5 Million. The Possession was Third with $5.8 Million. Lawless was Fourth with $4.2 Million. ParaNorman was Fifth with $3 Million. The Expendables 2, The Words, The Bourne Legacy, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and The Campaign rounded out the top ten respectively.

Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the fifth installment in the Resident Evil film series, based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil, and the third to be directed by Anderson. It is a direct follow-on from the previous film Resident Evil: Afterlife. The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new characters from the video game not featured in the previous films.

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The film sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) captured by the Umbrella Corporation, forcing her to make her escape from an underwater base in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus. Many characters from previous films return, including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), James “One” Shade (Colin Salmon), and Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts). Three new characters from the games appear for the first time in the franchise: Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), and Barry Burton (Kevin Durand).

Finding Nemo is an American computer-animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 30, 2003, and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It tells the story of the over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who, along with a regal tang named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), searches for his abducted son Nemo (Alexander Gould) in Sydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself. It is Pixar’s first movie to be released in cinemas in the northern hemisphere summer.

Source: Boxofficemojo, Wikipedia