Zach Cregger's Resident Evil gave the North American box office a shot in the arm in its first weekend in theatres. The Sony Pictures release earned US$60 million (S$76 million) in ticket sales from 3,684 locations in the US and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday. That's a best for the video game inspired franchise, of which there have been seven prior movies dating back to 2002, and for the filmmaker behind Weapons and Barbarian. It's also more than most of the previous films made in their entire domestic runs. The only exception is Resident Evil: Afterlife, which was released in 2010 and netted out with US$60.1 million, not…
