Brad Pitt's $540 Million Horror Hit Officially Conquers Streaming Ahead of the Sequel

Any successful spooky season box office needs the bite of a zombie. This year, the flesh-eating highlight came from the brilliant Zach Cregger, who looked to continue his impressive early directorial run after his 2025 sensation, Weapons, won an Academy Award. His latest movie, a reboot of the popular video game Resident Evil, has been met with similar high praise, including from Collider’s Carly Lane, who said that “when Resident Evil works, it really works.”

The movie might’ve just been removed from 900 theaters, igniting the beginning of the end of its big-screen run, but Resident Evil has already found success. Against a reported $75 million production budget, the video game adaptation has scored a huge $362 million in global revenue, which puts it almost $100 million ahead of Weapons. But if you’ve missed your chance to catch this Halloween’s best zombie movie on the big screen, you could join the rest of the world in watching another zombie favorite on streaming.

At the time of writing, Brad Pitt‘s World War Z is one of the ten most-watched movies on Paramount+ in the world. The film marked Pitt’s highest-grossing movie of his career at the time, a record which stood until last year, with a global haul of more than $540 million. Still the highest-grossing zombie movie ever, there’s no doubting World War Z‘s impact on the genre, even if it faced mixed reviews when it first debuted. James Badge Dale, Mireille Enos, and Daniella Kertesz also star.

Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.

Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.

• Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
  guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
• You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
  own head is where this does its damage.
• These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
  because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
• You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.

Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.

• Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
  describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
• You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
  know that feeling from real life too.
• The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
  have met those adults.
• By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.

Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.

• Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
  somebody who was at the party.
• You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
  same way you watch films.
• The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
  the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
• Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.

Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.

• The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
  room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
• Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
  personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
• This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
  the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
• Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
  standing in the hallway.

What Is Brad Pitt Making Next?

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Following his 2025 Oscar-winning blockbuster F1 and the recent quiet box office hit Heart of the Beast, Pitt is returning to one of his best modern characters to round out a relatively low-key 2026. Released exclusively in IMAX on November 25, before moving to Netflix on December 23, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth sees Pitt reprise his war veteran stunt double after picking up the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Quentin Tarantino‘s 2019 masterpiece Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Tarantino has stepped away from the camera for this standalone sequel, instead writing the script, which is being brought to life by long-time Pitt collaborator David Fincher.

World War Z is one of the ten most-watched movies on Paramount+ in the world. Stay tuned to Collider for more.

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