Sony has already set a launch date for the second movie of their newly revamped 28 Days trilogy —28 Years Later: The Bone Temple— which is able to hit theaters on Jan. 16, 2026.
By the way in which, Sony simply dated on prime of New Line’s extremely anticipated Zach Cregger directed style film Weapons. There was some buzz within the ether that Warners was going to maneuver Weapons to 2025 after it take a look at effectively, however the studio could be very content material with the MLK weekend launch and has not plans to maneuver. Don’t know what occurs now that Sony has began a sport of rooster (bawk! bawk!). Additionally at present on the MLK weekend 2026 schedule is an untitled Disney movie.
In order not present confusion: the trailer which simply dropped was for 28 Years Later and that Danny Boyle directed zombie is popping out on June 20, 2025. The trailer for 28 Years Later was the second most watched horror trailer ever (not together with TikTok views) with 60.2M world views after It Chapter Two (96M views, $91M opening). The unique 28 Days Later film from Boyle hit digital buy and rental yesterday; that pic re-released given the exiting response to the trailer.
The 28 horror franchise have been initially launched respectively by Searchlight Footage and Fox Atomic labels on the former twentieth Century Fox, the 2 movies grossing a close to mixed $150M on the worldwide field workplace. Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris starred in 28 Days Later, whereas Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner and Robert Carlye starred within the sequel, 28 Weeks Later.
Sony received the newly revamped franchise 28 Years Later with Boyle reteaming with scribe Alex Garland and star Murphy. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell additionally star in 28 Years Later.
Nia DaCosta is directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
The finances for the brand new motion pictures are within the vary of $75 million.
Boyle, Garland, Andrew Macdonald, Searchlight Footage vet Peter Rice (who initially shepherded the unique motion pictures) and Bernard Bellew are producers with Murphy as EP.
The unique 28 Days Later takes place in a world the place animal rights activists have freed a bunch of contaminated chimpanzees to horrifying outcomes. Murphy’s bicycle courier wakes up from a coma in a abandoned London hospital 28 days later to search out that the world has been overrun with zombies.
