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28 Years Later is the third installment in the post-apocalyptic horror franchise. The film marks the return of Danny Boyle as the director and writer Alex Garland to the franchise after the first film, 28 Days Later. The new film was released on June 20, 2025, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Here is the official synopsis as per Letterboxd:
Twenty-eight years since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one member departs on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Let's take a look at the film's box office numbers.
28 Years Later performs well at the BO despite stiff competition
Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later grossed $14 million on its opening day at the box office. The number includes $5.8 million that it earned from the previews on Thursday. This is the biggest opening day collection of Boyle's career. Earlier, the projected opening collection was around $35 million. The numbers are impressive as the film is facing direct competition from Universal Pictures' How To Train Your Dragon.
28 Years Later is produced by Boyle, Alex Garland, Peter Rice, Bernie Bellew, and Andrew Macdonald. It is the third entry in the franchise after 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007). The film was shot back to back with the next sequel called 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta and scheduled to be released on January 16, 2026. 28 Years Later has so far received positive critical response and has the best Rotten Tomatoes score among all films of the franchise.
In an NPR interview, Boyle spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the film. He said,
"It was obviously a reminder in real life of how cities can change their identity overnight in an unimaginable way — in a way that you can only ever figure happened in movies, and did use to happen in movies, like our movie. But it was more helpful for us about what happened in the year that followed. Our behavior changes after that initial alert - utter alarm - of danger. Humans don't sustain that."
He further noted that such events lead people to take bigger risks, which is reflected in the story.
"You relax, and you begin to take slightly more risks and then slightly more risks. And you just begin to find out how you can live within this emergency. And for us, 28 years means that, for instance, in the film, he takes his son to the mainland — his 12-year-old son to the mainland. If it was 28 days later, he would never..."
The box-office collection would further boost the makers' morale to go ahead with two more sequels, as Boyle has planned for a trilogy of 28 Years Later films. is currently playing in theatres.
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