{"id":412212,"date":"2026-01-17T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412212\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:16:07","slug":"bone-temple-hits-2-1-million-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412212\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Temple’ Hits $2.1 Million Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM: Na\u2019vi and the Infected are locked in a battle for No. 1 over what is a very sluggish MLK weekend. The major motion picture studios, in their commitment to theatrical, forgot to release more wide entries, Sony being the only one to have the grit to take on the fifth weekend of 20th Century Studio\u2019s Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>. Currently both are looking at $15M over four days. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, the fifth weekend of Disney\u2019s Mufasa: The Lion King led with $15.4M over four days<\/a> with Sony\u2019s One of Them Days in second with $14M and Universal\/Blumhouse\u2019s Wolf Man \u2014 which was expected to well but did not \u2014 debuting at $12.2M. The entire Friday-Monday frame came in at $94.2M. Let\u2019s hope we\u2019re not lower.<\/p>\n

\n\t28 Years Later: The Bone Temple currently is seeing a $5.8M Friday, which includes Thursday night\u2019s $2.1M. Heading into the weekend, analytics firm RelishMix measured the sequel\u2019s social media universe at 186.3M across YouTube, TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram, which is 17% behind where 28 Years Later was this summer but 1% ahead of the social media reach of other horror franchise genre norms. \u201cThe\u00a028 Years\u00a0cast are not big drivers with the two leads off the grid and Chi Louis Parry bringing 131K fans and Emma Laird with 108K,\u201d reports RelishMix.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 35 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe top 6 are as follows:<\/p>\n

Avatar: Fire & Ash (20th) 3,300 theaters, Fri $3M, 3-day $13.7M (-36%), 4-day $15M, Total $365M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Sony) 3,506 theaters, Fri $5.8M, 3-day $13M, 4-day $15M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

Zootopia 2 (Dis) 3,100 theaters, Fri $2M, 3-day $10M (even), 4-day $12.8M, Total $394M\/Wk 8<\/p>\n

The Housemaid (LG) 3,101 theaters, Fri $2.3M, 3-day $8.4M, 4-day $10M, Total $108.6M\/Wk 5<\/p>\n

Marty Supreme (A24) 2,027 theaters, Fri $1.6M, 3-day $5.2M (-27%), 4-day $6.5M, Total $80.1M\/Wk 5 (By Saturday, the Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet awards contender will surpass Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2018s $77.1M to become A24\u2019s highest-grossing movie at the domestic B.O.).<\/p>\n

Primate (Par) 2,964 theaters, Fri $1.4M, 3-day $5.2M (-53%), 4-day $6.3M, Total $20.8M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM: Sony\u2019s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has begun the MLK weekend with $2.1 million in previews from 2 p.m. showtimes Thursday. As expected, that\u2019s lower than last summer\u2019s $5.8M previews for 28 Years Later, with that movie\u2019s Thursday boosted by Juneteenth holiday moviegoers.<\/p>\n

\n\t28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is really the only major studio wide release of the MLK weekend. It\u2019s expected to do $20M-$22M over the four days against Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2018s fifth weekend, which is expected to land around $19M over four days. 28 Years Later opened to $30M in June 2025 after a $14.4M Friday plus previews. That movie was directed by franchise co-architect Danny Boyle, while the follow-up here is helmed by Candyman director Nia DaCosta.<\/p>\n

\n\t28 Years Later last summer skewed 75% over 25, 62% male. Men over 25 repped close to half of the audience, while women over 25 showed up at 37%, the second biggest demographic.<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics love Bone Temple at 94%, and the current PostTrak score is 4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s how the rest of the top 5 went down for the week:<\/p>\n

Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th) 3,700 theaters Wk $28.9M (-47%), Total $350M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n

The Housemaid (LG) 3,123 theaters, Wk $15.6M (-29%), Total $98.6M\/Wk 4 (the Paul Feig-directed pic is crossing $100M domestic today<\/p>\n

Primate (Par) 2,964 theaters, Wk $14.5M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n

Zootopia 2 (Dis) 3,200 theaters Wk $12.4M (-48%), Total $381.2M\/Wk 7<\/p>\n

Marty Supreme (A24) 2,512 theaters, Wk $10.9M (-42%), Total $73.4M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM: Na\u2019vi and the Infected are locked in a battle for No. 1 over what is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[62993,34531,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-412212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","9":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412212","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=412212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}