In The Lost Lands has not been a box office hit for Milla Jovovich, or anyone involved, and that continues an especially rough stretch for the action movie star. As an adaptation of a short story from Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, having Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista in the lead roles, and with Paul W.S. Anderson directing, there was some belief that the 2025 fantasy film could find success at the box office. Bautista is no stranger to box office hits with various franchises, and Jovovich and Anderson were behind the $1.2 billion Resident Evil franchise.

That franchise ended eight years ago with the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. In the years since, Jovovich has continued to work and search for a тιтle that could launch her next big franchise. Instead of In The Lost Lands replacing Resident Evil in that regard, the movie’s performance leaves the star still without a reliable property at the box office. She has not been able to replicate the success of the Resident Evil films anywhere. That has put Jovovich in the midst of a horrible box office trend that may continue well after In The Lost Lands.

In The Lost Lands Is A Disastrous Box Office Performer For Milla Jovovich & Paul W.S. Anderson

The Movie Has Made About $3 Million Worldwide

Any hope that In The Lost Lands would surprise at the box office thanks to Jovovich, Anderson, and Bautista’s involvement quickly went away. Vertical Entertainment released the film in 1,370 theaters on March 7, 2025. However, In The Lost Lands only made $1,072,019 domestically during its opening weekend. It finished in 10th at the box office that weekend. That led to the film rapidly losing theaters and not even crossing the $2 million mark domestically before its third weekend of release.

There may have been expectation that In The Lost Lands would be a bigger hit internationally thanks to Jovovich and Anderson’s past collaborations. That has not been the case so far. Following critics blasting the movie through In The Lost Lands‘ reviews, interest has been muted. It’s barely made more than $1 million internationally. There may still be a glimmer of hope that the box office total will grow substantially. In The Lost Lands isn’t releasing in any Latin American countries until mid-April. If the movie gets a Chinese release, which isn’t confirmed, that could help too.

Even if In The Lost Lands‘ box office gets some help internationally, it is unlikely to be a box office hit with its reported $55 million budget. It would need to make over $110 million worldwide to accomplish that. Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson have a pretty strong track record of doing that, which is why In The Lost Lands‘ poor box office performance is so much more disastrous. Their histories suggest a better performance should have happened.

Milla Jovovich Hasn’t Had A Major Box Office Hit Since Resident Evil Ended

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Made $314 Million

In The Lost Lands‘ performance adds to the brutal decline Milla Jovovich has had at the box office since Resident Evil ended. The video game franchise was a huge hit for her for 15 years. Every movie in the franchise made over $100 million at the box office worldwide. All but the fifth film made more than the previous installment too. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ended the franchise on a high note, as it made a franchise record $314 million. That’s also Milla Jovovich’s highest box office total for any of her movies.

Yet, she has not managed a single major hit in the eight years after Resident Evil: The Final Chapter broke records. She’s been in five movies that did not even make $1 million at the box office in that time, as each did not get a domestic release at all and only played in limited theaters internationally. The 2019 Hellboy remake is her biggest box office hit after Resident Evil, but the David Harbour-led comic book movie only managed to make $53 million. She and Paul W.S. Anderson’s last movie, Monster Hunter, made $47 million in 2020.

In The Lost Lands is sure to continue the abysmal global grosses for Milla Jovovich movies at the box office. The result is Jovovich enduring the longest streak of her career without having a movie make at least $100 million at the box office. It’s been eight years since her last one. The longest she went previously was five years, between The Fifth Element and Resident Evil and again between Resident Evil: Retribution and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Milla Jovovich Isn’t A Bankable Box Office Draw Anymore (If She Ever Was)

Milla Jovovich Has Been Attached To Some Huge Hits

It’s easy to look at Milla Jovovich’s highest grossing movies and think of her as someone who is a major box office star. She’s been part of a $1.2 billion franchise and played a major role in a hit $263 million sci-fi movie. In The Lost Lands is a reminder that Jovovich’s biggest box office hits rarely were the result of her involvement specifically. Many other factors contributed to her biggest hits, suggesting she never was someone who should be considered a reliable draw to get audiences to movie theaters.

The biggest example of this is Resident Evil. The movies were mᴀssively successful, but that can largely be attributed to the fandom surrounding the video game series. Resident Evil is a well-known property, and while Jovovich and Anderson’s movies made some big changes to the source material, the name recognition of the brand still carried a lot weight. Clearly, audiences became invested in Jovovich’s journey as Alice and seeing it continue and conclude. But that did not translate to audiences seeking out her other projects.

Looking at Jovovich’s other box office hits, she’s not really the main selling point for them either. She was still a very new face when she starred in The Fifth Element, as people went to see Bruce Willis primarily. She was one of the bigger stars in 2011’s The Three Musketeers, but that movie also benefited from the recognizability of IP. Her role in the Zoolander movies was also smaller and not a main selling point of the Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller comedies.

Milla Jovovich’s Rough Box Office Trend Is Bound To Continue

She’s Attached To More Movies With Smaller Box Office Potential

The bad news for Milla Jovovich is that her box office struggles will likely continue following up a potential bomb with In The Lost Lands. She is currently attached to three upcoming movies that have shaky box office prospects. None of them have confirmed release dates, but the projects are Protector, an action-thriller where Jovovich’s character goes into the criminal underworld to save her child; Midnight, an action-thriller where Jovovich plays a criminal leader hunting down a pair of sisters; and World Breaker, a sci-fi action movie co-starring Luke Evans.

While each of Milla Jovovich’s upcoming movies sounds exciting on some level, none of them are particularly strong bets to do really well at the box office. World Breaker is the only one that has confirmed to have even gone through filming. While that movie comes from a critically acclaimed director, Brad Anderson (The Machinist), it’s not a known property like Resident Evil was. Considering Jovovich’s struggles to launch original properties or smaller adaptations, like In The Lost Lands, and turn them into box office successes, it’s difficult to have confidence that will change with these тιтles.

Source: The Numbers