Resident Evil looks to get off to a running start in its opening weekend at the box office. Sony Pictures releases writer-director Zach Cregger‘s horror-survival video game adaptation on Friday in roughly 3,500 North American theaters, with the studio projecting a debut frame of $40 million for the three-day weekend. This is in line with third-party tracking services, although some of those have upped their expectations in recent days as interest heats up, with the possibility that the opening gets close to $50 million or higher. It carries a $75 million production budget. A launch of $40 million would give the new Resident Evil the…
