{"id":411304,"date":"2026-01-16T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:44:06","slug":"28-years-later-makes-2-1-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411304\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Years Later Makes $2.1 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s time to go back to zombie-infested Britain with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/28-years-later-the-bone-temple\/\" id=\"auto-tag_28-years-later-the-bone-temple\" data-tag=\"28-years-later-the-bone-temple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>,\u201d the sequel to last summer\u2019s post-apocalyptic hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Bone Temple\u201d has made $2.1 million in previews at the box office. It\u2019s projected to make $20 million to $22 million in the extra-long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. In comparison, the first \u201c28 Years Later,\u201d which reinvigorated the Sony horror series, made $5.8 million in previews over the traditional three-day weekend last June. That film debuted to $30 million and ended its run with a solid $70 million in North America and $150 million globally against a $60 million budget. The \u201cBone Temple\u201d sequel has a slightly higher price tag of $63 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDirector Nia DaCosta takes the reins from Danny Boyle, who helmed last year\u2019s film and the original 2003 horror \u201c28 Days Later.\u201d She directs the series\u2019 first direct sequel from writer and creator Alex Garland\u2019s script, which takes place after the events of \u201c28 Years Later\u201d and follows Ralph Fiennes\u2019 deranged doctor Ian Kelson and Jack O\u2019Connell\u2019s cult leader Jimmy Crystal. Alfie Williams, the young breakout of the first films also returns, and the sequel introduces Erin Kellyman, Emma Laird and original star Cillian Murphy back into the zombie outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201c28 Years Later\u201d zombies will battle the Na\u2019vi of \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d for first place at the box office, as James Cameron\u2019s epic threequel aims to take in $18 million to $19 million in its fifth weekend. Cameron\u2019s previous entries, the original 2009 \u201cAvatar\u201d and its 2022 sequel \u201cThe Way of Water,\u201d both held strong at No. 1 for seven weeks and soared to more than $2 billion each at the box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to go back to zombie-infested Britain with \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,\u201d the sequel to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[62993,88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-411304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}