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The Resident Evil movies have never been huge box office hits but the modest budgets of the films based on Capcom's zombie action games have always made the movies profitable. Now Box Office Mojo has posted word that Sony's genre film label Screen Gems has already announced that the fifth Resident Evil movie will be heading to theaters on September 14, 2012.

Last year's release of the fourth film, Resident Evil Afterlife, did just OK here in the US with about $60 million generated at the box office. However the movie, the first to be shot and shown in 3D, did extremely well overseas with over $236 million in box office returns. It's currently unknown if the star of the first four Resident Evil movies, the always armed Milla Jovovich, will return for the fifth installment.

The Resident Evil movie series, while only loosely based on the Capcom survival horror series, have been pretty successful for its studio Sony Pictures. This weekend's release of the fourth movie in the series, Resident Evil Afterlife, has been no exception. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the film easily won the box office crown this weekend with a total of $27.7 million in ticket sales.

The amount was boosted by the movie's 3D release which raises the ticket prices for those who want to see zombies coming out of the screen. The movie reportedly cost just $60 million to produce and with this weekend's box office success it's likely that a fifth movie in the series will be made. Indeed (spoiler alert) Afterlife ends with a cliffhanger that would strongly suggest a new film is already planned.

The three live action films based on the Resident Evil game franchise have always been very loosely based on the Capcom games but the movies have always made their money back and more thanks to relatively low budgets, solid box office returns and high sales of the DVD and Blu-Ray versions. So it's no shock to hear that a fourth Resident Evil movie might be in the works.

According to Shocktillyoudrop.com a "studio source" at Sony's Screen Gems division has supposedly confirmed that the movie, to be titled Resident Evil: Afterlife, is in the works with Sony wanting to put the movie in theaters by September 17, 2010. There's no word yet if the star of the three previous movies, Milla Jovovich, will return for the fourth filick.