{"id":523356,"date":"2026-01-17T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:28:10","slug":"the-bone-temple-is-no-1-friday-with-5-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/523356\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bone Temple’ Is No. 1 Friday With $5.6 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNia DaCosta\u2019s \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>\u201d ended the four-week reign of \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>\u201d and claimed the top spot at the domestic box office on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Bone Temple,\u201d the sequel to last summer\u2019s \u201c28 Years Later\u201d and the fourth film in Sony\u2019s long-running zombie franchise, grossed $5.6 million on its opening day from 3,506 North American theaters. The horror-thriller is expected to add $15 million through the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday frame. The last installment, helmed by \u201c28 Days Later\u201d director Danny Boyle, opened to $30 million over a traditional three-day frame, and ended its run with $70 million in the States and $150 million worldwide. That film cost $60 million, and \u201cThe Bone Temple\u201d was slightly more expensive to produce at $63 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tFranchise mastermind Alex Garland penned the screenplay for \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,\u201d which follows Ralph Fiennes, Jack O\u2019Connell and Alfie Williams as they navigate the British countryside and fight off the deadly Rage Virus. The film has received rave reviews<\/a> from critics and an \u201cA-\u201d from audience pollster CinemaScore, a rare feat in the horror genre.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d landed at No. 2 with $3.2 million on its fifth Friday in North American theaters. James Cameron\u2019s third trip to Pandora looks to add an estimated $17 million through the MLK frame. Domestic gross should hit about $367 million by Monday. Although \u201cFire and Ash\u2019s\u201d box office crown is lost for now, the film is expected to extend its winning streak through the weekend and notch a fifth week and No. 1. The first \u201cAvatar\u201d and its sequel \u201cThe Way of Water\u201d were both No. 1 at the box office for seven consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere at the domestic box office, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Shakespearean drama \u201cHamnet\u201d expanded to 718 North American locations after several weeks in limited release. The film earned $13 million during its initial rollout and added another $370,000 on Friday. \u201cHamnet\u201d should pull in $1.6 million through MLK Day.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate\u2019s thriller \u201cThe Housemaid<\/a>\u201d added $2.5 million on Friday for a third-place finish. Domestic earnings should hit $109 million through the holiday frame, an impressive feat considering it cost just $35 million to produce. A sequel is already in the works<\/a> with star Sydney Sweeney and director Paul Feig returning.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\u2019s monkey horror \u201cPrimate<\/a>\u201d landed in sixth during its second Friday in North American theaters, hauling in another $1.4 million. The film opened solidly last weekend with $13.4 million worldwide against a $21 million budget. The domestic total should reach $6.2 million by Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the top five are several holdovers from the holiday season: \u201cMarty Supreme<\/a>\u201d and \u201cZootopia 2.\u201d Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d landed at No. 4 with $1.9 million domestically on Friday. The film is exhibiting astounding staying power, considering it was released in November. Rival estimates project a four-day gross of $12 million through MLK Day, which would raise the North American tally to $393 million. A24\u2019s \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d took fifth with an estimated $1.6 million domestic. Total domestic gross should hit about $80 million by Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nia DaCosta\u2019s \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple\u201d ended the four-week reign of \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":523357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[91408,24315,171,84736,53,131345,120306,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-523356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","9":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-marty-supreme","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-primate","14":"tag-the-housemaid","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115911858832004765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523356","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=523356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}