{"id":10193,"date":"2025-06-24T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10193\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:52:08","slug":"28-years-later-ignites-u-k-ireland-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10193\/","title":{"rendered":"’28 Years Later’ Ignites U.K., Ireland Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSony\u2019s horror sequel \u201c28 Years Later<\/a>\u201d opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office, scaring up \u00a34.7 million ($6.4 million) on debut, according to Comscore. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Danny Boyle-directed follow-up has a cast led by Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s \u201cHow To Train Your Dragon<\/a>\u201d held firm in second place, soaring to $3.8 million in its second weekend for a cumulative total of $17.1 million. Disney\u2019s \u201cElio<\/a>\u201d debued in third place, collecting $1.3 million over its first weekend. Meanwhile, the studio\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d continued its solid run, taking $908,062 in its fifth weekend to push its total to $46.4 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning\u201d followed in fifth position with $811,385, lifting its overall gross to $33.5 million after five weeks on release.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Bear\u2019s \u201cThe Salt Path\u201d took sixth with $362,939, reaching a cume of $9.2 million. Bollywood release \u201cSitaare Zameen Par\u201d from AA Films U.K. debuted in seventh with $306,576, ahead of Lionsgate U.K.\u2019s \u201cFrom The World of John Wick: Ballerina,\u201d which added $263,134 in its third frame for a $4.2 million total.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony\u2019s \u201cKarate Kid: Legends\u201d was in ninth place with $239,827, pushing its four-week haul to $7 million. Rounding out the top ten, Universal\u2019s \u201cThe Ballad Of Wallis Island\u201d earned $178,765, bringing its cumulative earnings to $1.6 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong upcoming releases, Warner Bros. unleashes one of the summer\u2019s biggest titles on Wednesday with \u201cF1,\u201d directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt. Set against the high-octane world of Formula One racing, the film rolls out across more than 300 locations. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal counters on Friday with the release of sequel \u201cM3GAN 2.0.\u201d Also opening wide is Paramount\u2019s 30th anniversary 4K reissue of Amy Heckerling\u2019s teen classic \u201cClueless,\u201d which returns to more than 300 cinemas with Alicia Silverstone\u2019s Cher Horowitz once again navigating high school hallways in style.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleases this week also include Verve Pictures\u2019 comedy \u201cChicken Town,\u201d and \u201cFrom Hilde, With Love,\u201d a German-language wartime romance distributed by Picturehouse Entertainment. <\/p>\n

\n\tDocumentary \u201cThe Line We Crossed,\u201d from Page75 Productions, focuses on civil resistance in the U.K., while \u201cWords Of War,\u201d released via Signature Entertainment, brings together Maxine Peake, Jason Isaacs and Ciar\u00e1n Hinds for a dramatized version of journalist Anna Politkovskaya\u2019s crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther releases include boxing film \u201cFighters\u201d (Big Picture Film Club), surfing documentary \u201cThe Road To Patagonia\u201d (Kaleidoscope Entertainment), Amy Hardie\u2019s relationships documentary \u201cLove & Trouble\u201d (Dartmouth Films), and Studiocanal\u2019s 40th anniversary re-release of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s epic \u201cRan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMusical fare is provided by \u201cMiley Cyrus: Something Beautiful\u201d from Trafalgar Releasing, while Dreamz Entertainment\u2019s Telugu-language fantasy \u201cKannappa\u201d and Moviegoers Entertainment\u2019s horror \u201cMaa\u201d add South Asian flavors to the diverse slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s horror sequel \u201c28 Years Later\u201d opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office, scaring up \u00a34.7 million…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[206,209,171,3720,7659,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-10193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later","9":"tag-elio","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-how-to-train-your-dragon","12":"tag-lilo-stitch","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114737259935648797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}