'28 Years Later 'has the best premiere of the national box office terror franchise

The premiere in cinemas 28 Years Later of Sony Pictures He started with his right foot.

The expected sequel to 28 Days Later y 28 Weeks Laterthat marks the return to the big screen of the post apocalyptic world of the director Danny Boyle and the scriptwriter Alex Garland –Reetomando their respective tasks – is conquering the audience, the criticism and the box office in equal parts.

Extermination: Evolution –For your title in our market– debuted in it NATIONAL BOARD NUMBER 2 (USA) Behind the Live-Action How To Train Your Dragonaccumulating $ 30 million in Box Office Nationaland other $30 million dollars at the international box officefor one Total global premiere box office of $ 60 million dollars.

That makes it The highest grossing premiere of the horror franchise by a large margin: 28 Days Later debuted with $ 10 million in 2002, and the sequel 28 Weeks Later with $ 9.8 million in 2007.

In addition, it is the third best premiere of a horror project so far this year 2025behind Sinners y Final Destination Bloodlines.

And although a debut of $ 60 million is something extremely positive, you have to talk about the film's budget. 28 Years Later had A $ 75 million budgetbecoming the most expensive film project to be shot with the use of a smartphone – the film used the iPhone 15 pro max model For filming–.

• In comparison, the original delivery of 2002 had a production budget of $ 8 million.

28 Years Later It must demonstrate a lasting impact on the box office in the following weeks to become a profitable project for study and creative. The new delivery has criticism and the audience in its favor, which should be very helpful for the audience to go to movie theaters to see the most recent proposal of zombie cinema.

This is the First installment of a new trilogy that follows up the events of the first two films released in the early 2000s. The second installment of this trilogy was already filmed. It was directed by Nia dacosta (Candyman) and is titled 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Garland writes the script of the three films with Boyle potentially returning as director of the third. The Bone Temple its premiere in cinemas for January 16, 2026, seven months after 28 Years Later.

28 Years Later He takes up the plot almost thirty years later following a group of survivors closely.

The main cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nosfer), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Jack O’Connell (Sinners), Alfie Williams (His Dark Materials) y Ralph Fiennes (The Menu, Harry Potter).

The plot places us in England, where a virus has devastated the country with the Rage virus, which transforms people into zombies. There we follow Jamie (Taylor-Johnson) and his 12-year-old son, Spike (Williams), who explore the world outside his isolated island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, and find innumerable horrors not counted in the place.

Official synopsis:

“Almost three decades have passed since the anger virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory and now, even in a quarantine imposed mercilessly, some have found ways to exist among those infected. One of those groups of survivors lives on a small island connected to the continent by a single road strongly defended. When one of the group members leaves the island in a mission towards the dark heart of the dark heart that have mutated not only those infected, but also other survivors. ”

On the return of Cillian Murphy, both producer Andrew Macdonald and Boyle, have revealed in different instances, which does not repeat their role as Jim in this first installment of the trilogy, however, They expect their return to the second and third installment. The Oscar winner by Oppenheimer is one of the executive producers of 28 Years Later.

Boyle and Garland produce the feature film with the producer of the original, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, and Bernie Bellew, and Murphy as executive producer. Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later) is the director of photography.