Nia DaCosta directed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the fourth installment in the 28 Days Later franchise, which debuted in U.S. theaters on January 16, 2026. The post-apocalyptic horror film has been met with widespread critical acclaim, currently holding an impressive 93% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. The Bone Temple outperforms every previous entry in the series in terms of critical reception, surpassing 28 Days Later (87%), 28 Weeks Later (73%), and 28 Years Later (88%). Despite this strong reception, however, the film’s box office performance has fallen short of early expectations and has yet to cross its $63 million budget figure (as per Deadline).
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Box Office Performance So Far
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has so far grossed $45.9 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing release of 2026 to date. It currently sits ahead of Primate ($30.4 million) and Greenland 2: Migration ($21.8 million) on the global charts (as per Box Office Mojo).
As it closes in on the $50 million mark, The Bone Temple, starring Ralph Fiennes and Cillian Murphy, is also poised to surpass the box office total of the first film directed by a woman to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. That milestone film is Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 war drama The Hurt Locker. Read on to find out how much more 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple needs to earn to outgross it at the global box office.





