Box Office: ’28 Years Later: Bone Temple’ Scares ‘Avatar
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The horror thriller 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is showing huge cracks in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. Picking up after the events of the 2025 rage virus thriller 28 Years Later, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple played in Thursday previews and opened nationwide in theaters on Friday.
Some have taken a visit to the Bone Temple over the weekend, but coming out months after the first '28 Years Later' might not've helped.
Well, not low, but the film did underperform compared to other flicks in the franchise. It could be partly attributed to the back-to-back release of 28 Years Later (June 2025) and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (January 2026).
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple scored $5.6 million on Friday, and is looking to notch around $15 million during the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. That's far behind the first 28 Years, which opened to a $30 million three-day number in June, and behind the $20 million initially projected for Bone Temple going into the weekend.
Meanwhile, Avatar: Fire and Ash ‘s running global cume rises to $1.3 billion, while Zootopia 2 at $1.7 billion WW is the highest grossing MPA Animated title ever. Zootopia 2 by end of Monday looks to be less than $7M away from crossing $400M at the domestic B.O.