If you missed Nia DaCosta’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” in theaters, you now have an opportunity to observe it in the consolation of your individual house. After a disastrous theatrical bow, this sequel is now accessible to stream on VOD—round 30 days after it first hit theaters.
Despite nice critiques, and a 3rd movie that had supposedly been greenlit previous to launch—extra on that under—“The Bone Temple” solely grossed $25M domestically, with a $57M worldwide tally, on a reported $63M finances.
The token moviegoer—and I’m not speaking about us freaks who devour cinema day by day—was simply too turned off by the primary installment, Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” launched final summer season, which was barely what you’d name a “zombie movie.” More existential treatise on humanity, much less horror-filled gore. That movie went on to earn a decent $70M domestically and $150M worldwide.
This all begs the query: why was Sony so fast to greenlight the third and closing chapter? Was it merely a determined try and bolster “The Bone Temple”? That’s what it seems like.
The final week, I’ve heard from two separate sources that Sony is in no rush to make the trilogy capper occur, regardless of asserting it final December. In reality, I’ve heard Netflix has proven some curiosity in buying the sequel, however Danny Boyle isn’t having any of it. He needs a theatrical launch for this closing chapter, which is meant to star Cillian Murphy.
It actually doesn’t assist that Sony has been caught in a box-office drought of late, with miss after miss. In reality, this previous weekend, they lastly had their first real winner with the animated “GOAT,” which might find yourself changing into the primary self-financed Sony title to hit the $100M home mark since October 2024’s “Venom: The Last Dance” ($139M).
With all that in thoughts, why would Sony enable a 3rd “28 Years Later” film to be made when the earlier two failed to fulfill expectations?
Sony propping up Murphy’s return for the third instalment didn’t promote tickets for “The Bone Temple,” which suggests we could be whole viewers disinterest in the longer term of this franchise. Despite essential acclaim, Boyle, Garland, and Sony appear to have misplaced the built-up viewers the franchise initially had.
