https://www.cnet.com/news/resident-evil-the-most-successful-video-game-movie-series-milla-jovovich-paul-ws-anderson/ > Considering the video game industry raked in $3 billion in the US alone in 2017, you'd think video game movies would be a sure thing. But bona fide hits that the Resident Evil movies are, it's their relatively frugal budgets that guarantee a healthy profit. > "We don't have Harry Potter money," laughs Milla Jovovich, who played the heavily armed lead character Alice in all six movies up to 2017's The Final Chapter.