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Milla Jovovich is an actress known for her portrayal of Alice in the action-horror film franchise Resident Evil. Among her works in various roles as Katrinka in Zoolander and Zoolander 2, A Perfect Getaway, and the 2019 rendition of Hellboy. Jovovich has also made television appearances in the shows Married... With Children and Robot Chicken. Besides being an actress, Jovovich is also a model and singer with her album The Divine Comedy in 1994.
Her main career has been as an actress on the big screen, with one of her roles being LeeLoo in the science fiction action film Fifth Element alongside Bruce Willis. Needless to say, Jovovich's film's roles have accumulated serious gross income.
The Fourth Kind ($47.71 Million)
Jovovich starred in the science-fiction thriller film The Fourth Kind as psychologist Abigail "Abbey" Tyler. The film had a budget of ten million and grossed roughly $47.7 million. The plot revolves around Tyler's psychological experiment of similar events others experienced, as well as herself. Tyler confirmed that the people in the hypnosis experiment have been abducted by aliens and concludes she was as well.
The film was based on real-life events that occurred in Nome, Alaska in 2000. The Fourth Kind also starres Elias Koteas and Corey Jonhson.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ($67 Million)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc was one of Jovovoich's earlier roles as the historical martyr Joan of Arc. The film is a French historical drama, also starring John Malkovich and Faye Dunaway. The film had a budget of $60 million, and the film made slightly more in gross income at $67 million.
The film follows the classic story of the French heroine and martyr St. Joan of Arc in the 15th century. Seeing the atrocities of the English, she takes a stand. She has a supernatural vision as a young child that steers her to lead the French army against the English forces allowing Charles VII to take over the throne.
Resident Evil ($103 Million)
The first installment in the Resident Evil franchise starts with Resident Evil in 2002. The film's protagonist, Alice, made Jovovich famous and is her most recognized role to date. The films are loosely based on the survival horror game of the same name. The film had a budget of $33 million, but surpassed it by making three times its budget at $103 million.
The film follows Alice, who wakes up in a deserted mansion with little knowledge of who she is. She and a group of individuals find out they are employees of the Umbrella Corporation. Underneath Racoon City is a genetic research facility named the Hive. A thief steals the T-virus and infects the Hive causing its artificial intelligence, The Red Queen, to seal the facility and kill its employees.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse ($129.3 Million)
The franchise's next movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, is Jovovich's next highest-grossing film. The film had a budget of $45 million and set at a gross worth of $129.3 million. The film continues the story of Alice. Alice wakes up in a hospital room while civilians in Racoon City are forced to remain inside the city after the Umbrella Corporation closes the only exit out. The T-Virus made its way out of the Hive.
With the city ridden with zombies, Alice has to fight off the Umbrella Corporation again. Umbrella has a couple of tricks up their sleeves. The film was met with a mixed response, but won many awards for its sound editing.
Three Musketeers ($132 Million)
Next in Jovovich's highest-grossing films is the 2011 film, The Three Musketeers. The film is based on the classic tale by Alexandre Duma in 1844. The film had a budget of $75 million and made $132 million in gross worth. The Three Muskateers starres Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson,Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, and Milla Jovovich. Jovovich plays the supporting role of Milady De Winter, who double-crosses Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the musketeers.
D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) leaves his small village in hopes of becoming a musketeer. The four men must save England as MiLady helps sabotage King Louis XII under the orders of Richelieu to declare war.
Resident Evil: Extinction ($147.7 Million)
Beck to the Resident Evil franchise films, the third installment Resident Evil: Extinction continues with Alice being played by Jovovich. The 2007 film made a gross worth of $147.7 million with a budget of $45 million. The story continues with Alice being genetically altered by Umbrella Corp. Now, Alice has superhuman abilities. It comes to light that she was part of Project Alice, that made multiple clones of her.
She joins a group of renegades while hiding in the deserts of Nevada. Her and her former cohorts, as well as new survivors, work to eliminate the virus that infected humans into zombies.
Resident Evil: Retribution ($ 240.1 Million)
The Resident Evil franchise has done well for Jovovich. The fifth installment of the film is the sequel to Resident Evil: Afterlife. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) made $240.1 million in gross worth with a budget of $65 million. Jovovich reprised her role as Alice. Clad in a skin-tight latex black suit, corset, kickass boots, and weaponry; Alice wakes up in a new facility.
She becomes part of various simulations that were created to test the effects of the T-virus in the real world. The facility was also creating clones. Alice is faced with new threats and obstacles in trying to save humanity from extinction.
The Fifth Element ($263 Million)
The science fiction action film of 1993, by Luc Besson, has become a science fiction cult classic. The film starred Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman. It also includes Chris Tucker and Ian Holm. Jovovich played the co-starring role as LeeLoo. The Fifth Element had a budget of $90 million and received a gross worth of $263.9 million.
Korben Dallas is a former major in the special forces and drives a cab in the years 2263 in New York. He becomes tangled in an adventure to save the Earth from a great evil that manifests every 5,000 years. LeeLoo is the fifth element, who was created to stop the great evil from destroying Earth, and it becomes Korbin's mission to keep her safe.
Resident Evil: Afterlife ($300.2 Million)
The fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife comes in at number two with the highest-grossing film for Jovovich. The film made $300.2 million in gross worth with only a $60 million budget.
Alice continues her mission to eradicate the virus that has turned almost all of Earth's humans into zombies. In this film, with the help of an old friend and survivors, Alice makes the journey to a supposed safe haven in Los Angeles. She comes to find more turmoil as Arcadia is a ship in the ocean that was once used by Umbrella Corp. to get test subjects. By the end of the film, it seems that employees and prisoners of Umbrella Corp. are being mind-controlled.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ($312.2 Million)
Subsequently, the highest-grossing film and the top spot on the list goes to the last film in the Resident Evil franchise. The film created Jovovich's highest-grossing worth at $312.2 million. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter brings Alice's story to a close, for now.
Viewers come to know the backstory behind the T-virus that plagued humans to become ferocious zombies. Alice wakes up once again and is informed by The Red Queen that Umbrella Corp. developed an anti-virus that would be airborne and would kill anyone infected with the T-virus. The Umbrella Corp. had plans to have the remaining humans die first.
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