28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is at present 2026’s highest-grossing film on report – which makes it all of the extra price noting how the movie helps repair and cope with probably the most contentious issues surrounding cinema in fashionable historical past. 2026 remains to be very a lot in its early days, however these early days ought to hopefully begin to paint an image of what to anticipate from the world of films in the remainder of the 12 months.
As such, the truth that The Bone Temple is 2026’s present top-grossing film launched this 12 months for at the very least the present second is actually attention-grabbing, and bodes properly for the following installment within the sequence. That is additionally promising since 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – very like 28 Years Later earlier than it – successfully handles one side of its launch that has proved to make sure doom for a lot of different movies.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Follows Up On 28 Years Later’s Classes About How To Pull Off A A long time-Later Sequel
Regardless of 28 Weeks Later popping out virtually twenty years in the past now – and 28 Days Later itself releasing 5 years earlier than the sequel in 2002 – 28 Years Later and follow-up movie 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple slot successfully into the broader franchise, and have drawn notable crucial attraction alongside cheap field workplace outcomes, with The Bone Temple at present being reported within the prime slot for 2026 field office-wise in these early weeks of the 12 months (by way of The Numbers and Field Workplace Mojo).
This is not as a result of the movies are precisely like that of the sequence’ prior releases – as is clear from them largely specializing in solely totally different protagonists to earlier installments, and of their appreciable tonal and thematic variations to what got here earlier than. As a substitute, it may be stated that these sequels succeed as a result of they lean into the appreciable real-life time hole between these sequels and the primary two movies.
28 Years Later and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple do that not simply by having the story set roughly across the period of time later that is handed in actual life – and exploring what a zombie apocalypse appears like many years after the preliminary outbreak – but in addition by specializing in easy methods to shock and awe audiences with this style in a interval whereby zombie tales are in some methods extra commonplace than ever, which it actually does over the course of its runtime.
In An Period Crammed With Reboots & Divisive Sequels, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’s Strategy Is Extra Necessary Than Ever
It stands to cause that the majority franchises have an inflow of sequels, and that there is all the time curiosity in easy methods to make sequels viable for movies and sequence that have been massively profitable and fashionable within the years and many years that got here prior. That stated, this has develop into a contentious matter for the world of cinema, and never with out good cause.
The constant emergence of recent sequels for or reboots of fashionable film sequence have garnered a fancy fame as a result of stated movies usually fail to navigate the divides between what got here earlier than, and the modified contexts round what a follow-up would should be to be able to totally resonate with audiences.
As such, it is much more thrilling to see 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple‘s constructive crucial reception be met by this 2026 report for its field workplace outcomes – even when they are not staggeringly excessive as of but – offering 2026 with a promising begin total on the movie entrance, and serving to present how decades-later sequels to film franchises can as a substitute resonate with most people. Hopefully, extra of 2026’s sequel movies will be capable to observe swimsuit at the very least conceptually, even when their very own tales are decidedly totally different in content material and tone.