Sony’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has begun the MLK weekend with $2.1 million in previews from 2 p.m. showtimes Thursday. As expected, that’s lower than last summer’s $5.8M previews for 28 Years Later, with that movie’s Thursday boosted by Juneteenth holiday moviegoers.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is really the only major studio wide release of the MLK weekend. It’s expected to do $20M-$22M over the four days against Avatar: Fire and Ash‘s fifth weekend, which is expected to land around $19M over four days. 28 Years Later opened to $30M in June 2025 after a $14.4M Friday plus previews. That movie was directed by franchise co-architect Danny Boyle, while the follow-up here is helmed by Candyman director Nia DaCosta.
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28 Years Later last summer skewed 75% over 25, 62% male. Men over 25 repped close to half of the audience, while women over 25 showed up at 37%, the second biggest demographic.
Critics love Bone Temple at 94%, and the current PostTrak score is 4.5 stars out of 5.
Here’s how the rest of the top 5 went down for the week:
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th) 3,700 theaters Wk $28.9M (-47%), Total $350M/Wk 4
- The Housemaid (LG) 3,123 theaters, Wk $15.6M (-29%), Total $98.6M/Wk 4 (the Paul Feig-directed pic is crossing $100M domestic today
- Primate (Par) 2,964 theaters, Wk $14.5M/Wk 1
- Zootopia 2 (Dis) 3,200 theaters Wk $12.4M (-48%), Total $381.2M/Wk 7
- Marty Supreme (A24) 2,512 theaters, Wk $10.9M (-42%), Total $73.4M/Wk 4
