’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Looks To Unseal $20M+ Over MLK Holiday Weekend – Box Office

Sony’s sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit search past week successful what looks to beryllium a $20M-plus 4-day opening play complete nan MLK holiday.

That would make nan Nia Costa directed, Alex Garland written, and Danny Boyle produced British scary movie 1 of 32 movies to unfastened northbound of $20M astatine nan Friday done Monday MLK container office.

MLK, which falls connected Monday, Jan. 19 adjacent year, is often seen arsenic nan headdress disconnected of vacation moviegoing. While colleges and K-12 schools are some 94% disconnected connected MLK per ComScore, 76% to 84% colleges stay connected break during nan first week of January, while 37% to 42% are disconnected during nan 2nd weekend. Tickets for Bone Temple go connected waste connected Jan. 2; beforehand pre-sales ever a facet successful moving a projection successful summation to tracking.

Sony has been screening Bone Temple consistently passim nan month. Following a rapturous instrumentality 1 astatine AMC’s Century City, we told you first that Sony was moving guardant connected their action for nan 3rd 28 Years Later title (overall 5th successful nan franchise) pinch Cillian Murphy successful talks to star, and Garland already penning nan screenplay. Boyle has said during 28 Years Later‘s summertime property circuit he’d for illustration to helm nan next movie.

28 Years Later follows nan quality survivors successful a early wherever nan Infected stay years aft nan events of 2007s 28 Weeks Later — however, they don’t locomotion among us, alternatively they’re penned successful nan wilderness. The movie opened past June to $30M stateside and went onto to gross $70.4M domestic, and $151.3M worldwide. The Boyle directed movie (the 2nd he directed successful nan series) pulled successful adjacent to half men complete 25, 26% women complete 25, 13% men nether 25 and 13% women nether 25. Bone Temple remains a first prime connected search among men complete 25 followed by women nether 25 pinch akin scores to that of past year’s Nosferatu (which posted a 3-day opening complete Christmas agelong of $21.6M, 5-day of $40.8M).

All in, nan full British scary bid crossed 3 features has minted adjacent to $300 cardinal worldwide. Bone Temple, which takes spot promptly aft 28 Years Later, is group against a divided nine successful which we spot young Spike teaming pinch Sir Jimmy Crystal’s pack (Josh O’Connell) arsenic Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson looks to quell nan infected outbreak. No RT critics and assemblage scores yet, though fans and property person exclaimed their praises to nan entity connected social, which you tin publication below.

Sony precocious kept large surface comedies live complete nan Christmas agelong pinch nan Jack Black-Paul Rudd movie Anaconda posting a $23.6M 4-day opening.

Also opening connected Jan. 16 alongside Bone Temple is frosh supplier Row K’s first theatrical release, Dead Man’s Wire from Gus Van Sant, arsenic good arsenic a wide break of Focus Features’ Chloe Zhao helmed Hamnet, which is presently successful constricted release.