UPDATE: Yeah, this one’s tanking. ‘Bone Temple’ only made $635K on Thursday. Not good.
EARLIER: Well, this ain’t good. By all accounts, Nia DaCosta’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” is going to have a terrible second weekend at the box office, with a $4M tally. That’s a 70% drop.
This film won’t have legs, and that’s despite great reviews and a third film already, supposedly, greenlit—although I gather Sony will surely have a reevaluation meeting concerning that project. “The Bone Temple” has so far earned $16M domestic, $14M internationally, and its budget is reported to be $63M.
The token moviegoer—and I’m not talking about us freaks who devour cinema—was just too turned off by Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” released last year, which was barely what you would call a “zombie movie.” More existential treatise of humanity, less horror-filled gore.