YouTube interest for resident evil printed 29 for the week of September 19 2026, up 61.11% from 18 on September 12 and up 107.14% from 14 on August 22. Trends MCP get_growth on source youtube, pulled September 26 2026, also reads +141.67% over 1 year from 12 on September 20 2025. The weekly freeze holds 260 points from October 2 2021 through September 19 2026. Sony opened Zach Cregger's film in the United States on September 18 2026, the Friday inside that Saturday week. Variety, dated September 20, put the domestic opening at $60 million and the global start at $108.3 million.
About Resident Evil
Resident Evil is Capcom's survival-horror franchise, with the first game shipping in 1996, cumulative game sales above 170 million units in Capcom's June 2025 Requiem announcement, and a 2026 live-action reboot that Wikipedia lists as the eighth film and the second reboot after 2021's Welcome to Raccoon City. Zach Cregger directs from a script with Shay Hatten. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier in Raccoon City. Budget is $75 million.
Sony opened the film in the United States on September 18 2026 after a Los Angeles premiere on September 15. Variety's September 20 box-office report put the domestic opening at $60 million from 3,684 locations, above a $40 million to $50 million tracking range, with $48.3 million overseas for a $108.3 million global start. That domestic figure beats 2010's Afterlife at $26 million. Capcom dated Resident Evil Requiem to February 27 2026 and said on March 4 that worldwide sales had surpassed 5 million units, then on March 16 that the total had cleared 6 million.
What the time series shows
YouTube interest for resident evil jumped from 18 on September 12 2026 to 29 on September 19, an 11-point opening-week lift that still sits 71 points under the March 7 2026 peak of 100, the Requiem game-launch top on this freeze. get_growth on youtube matches the freeze: 18 to 29 (+61.11%) over 7 days, 14 to 29 (+107.14%) over 30 days, 12 to 29 (+141.67%) over 1 year. Last eight weekly values are 18, 15, 15, 14, 14, 15, 18, and 29, a flat mid-teens summer then the theatrical Saturday.
The 100 on March 7 is the game, not the film. Requiem shipped February 27. The series printed 31 on February 21, 61 on February 28, and 100 on March 7, then 75, 56, 43 through March 28. CinemaCon footage arrived April 13, when the weekly value was already 32. Sony's public teaser followed April 30. By August 22 the series was 14. The chart window starts 2026-01-03 (value 17) under Since Jan 2026.
Which Trends MCP calls return this series
The stored keyword is resident evil on source youtube, and that exact pair is what get_time_series and get_growth used for the 29, the 61 percent 7-day move, and the 260-week freeze pulled September 26 2026. A Google Search series for the same string exists and printed 48 the week of September 19, with get_growth at +140.0% over 7 days. That Search 48 is a different index. It is not mixed into the 29, the 100, or the chart.
IMDb MOVIEmeter listed Resident Evil (2026) at rank 1 on the September 26 2026 pull. Wikipedia Trending had Resident Evil (2026 film) at rank 16. Neighbor 30-day get_growth on google search, same day: practical magic 2 +486.67% (15 to 88), silent hill townfall +200.0% (2 to 6), mega man +5.88% (68 to 72), gta 6 -42.86% (35 to 20), the odyssey -60.0% (20 to 8). Those Search deltas are neighbors only.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="youtube" keyword="resident evil"
get_growth source="youtube" keyword="resident evil" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth. The freeze is 260 weekly {date, value} points, first 2021-10-02, last 2026-09-19, with no smoothing. Chart PNG reads chart_from 2026-01-03 and chart_label Since Jan 2026.
Trailer-native watch boards sit on YouTube Trends. Game-adjacent topic pages include Mega Man and GTA 6. Those pages use their own sources and should not be added to this 29.