Seven-Day Summary: 'Resident Evil' Owns First Week of Fall

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Resident Evil: Afterlife shot to the top this week with the highest-grossing start in its franchise. The rest of the field didn't fare so well: after receiving Labor Day boosts last week, holdovers The American, Takers and Machete all fell more than 50 percent. Overall, the week was down nearly 11 percent from the same timeframe last year when I Can Do Bad All By Myself led the way.

Grossing $33.9 million, Resident Evil: Afterlife topped previous series-best Resident Evil: Extinction's $28.8 million. When adjusted for ticket price inflation and 3D premiums, however, Afterlife actually had the least-attended opening week of the eight-year old franchise. Despite fewer people seeing it, Afterlife will soon exceed the first Resident Evil's $40.1 million final gross and will ultimately challenge Resident Evil: Apocalypse's series-high $51.2 million total.

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TIFF: Milla Jovovich eats Truffle Lobster Pasta every day: Senses chef

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East-meets-West culinary guru, Chef Patrick Lin, has a new fan among the devoted diners at Senses in the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel in downtown Toronto. Actress Milla Jovovich, in town for the Toronto International Film Festival and the premiere of her new film Stone, stayed at the hotel and ordered Chef Lin’s signature dish — Truffle Lobster Pasta — every day. Even with all the lobster foam and decadent carbohydrates, she still made a svelte appearance on the red carpet.

A few questions for Chef Lin were certainly in order, given the compliment to the dish — unless she just likes to stick to a routine?!

Q: Milla Jovovich — it’s not every day you have a Hollywood star ordering from your menu? Was the pressure on?
A: Yes. [The staff was] so nervous. We were on high alert. We had to stop everyone’s days off … I personally cooked for her. It had to be perfect. She ate in the restaurant and ordered room service.

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Milla Jovovich juggles zombies & serious roles

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TORONTO - Milla Jovovich does not just want to rule the box office by killing zombies. She aims to show versatility beyond her "Resident Evil" action-horror franchise with a pair of movies at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jovovich co-stars with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton in the psychological drama "Stone," which premiered at Toronto ahead of its theatrical release in October. Her second Toronto film, the teen comedy "Dirty Girl," also premiered at the festival over the weekend.

"I just keep chugging away at the smaller, more interesting character studies that I get to play," Jovovich said in an interview. "The 'Resident Evil' world is amazing. I love it and I love the action. But really, when you do the little indies, you get a chance to play the parts you don't normally play."

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