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Danny Boyle’s zombie thriller 28 Years Later will start streaming on Netflix on September 20.
2025 has been a fairly large 12 months for films thus far, from prompt classics like Sinners, to the triumphant return of Superman. One of the vital important releases of the 12 months has come from esteemed British filmmaker Danny Boyle, who returned to his seminal ’28 Days Later’ zombie franchise for a long-awaited threequel — over 20 years after the unique film.
Releasing in June 2025, 28 Years Later was an enormous success. Actually, a sequel — The Bone Temple — is already set for launch in January 2026. The film, written by Alex Garland, government produced by Cillian Murphy, and helmed by Danny Boyle, was shot in Boyle’s signature bare-bones model, during which he used a ton of rigged-up iPhones to attain a gritty aesthetic. It boasts an all-star forged, together with Jodie Comer (Isla), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Jamie), Ralph Fiennes (Dr. Ian Kelson), and 14-year-old breakout star Alfie Williams (Spike).
28 Years Later turned out there for premium video on demand on July 29, out there for buy via Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and others. Netflix is making its debut on a streaming service. It turns into out there within the US library on September 20. This comes a couple of days earlier than the film will get a bodily media launch in 4K Extremely HD Blu-ray on September 23.
This launch date solely applies to Netflix in the US – different areas must wait for one more 1-3 years.
The film arrives on Netflix a lot sooner than first anticipated. As we’ve lined with Sony Footage films, which head to Netflix below a primary window deal, it sometimes takes 120 days for his or her movies to come back to Netflix following preliminary theatrical launch.
Set 30 years after the breakout of the apocalypse via the Rage virus, 28 Years Later picks up the story on a secluded island off the coast of northern England, the place a tight-knit group of survivors have cast out a secure group, lower off from the mainland however for a causeway that’s solely walkable at sure hours. Nevertheless, when one of many survivors decides to enterprise off to the mainland, discovering secrets and techniques and horrors, it threatens the safety of the sanctuary that’s been constructed.
How did 28 Years Later carry out on the field workplace?
When it comes to field workplace success, 28 Years Later is at the moment the 18th highest-grossing film of 2025 on the international field workplace (as of September 6, 2025), producing over $150M. This locations it above Mickey 17 and John Wick spinoff Ballerina.
At the moment, neither of 28 Days Later or 28 Weeks Later are within the Netflix US library. The present streaming choice for US viewers is Pluto TV for 28 Days Later and Hulu for 28 Weeks Later. With the arrival of 28 Years Later, Netflix can also choose up each Days and Weeks for its US library — however we can not verify this to be the case. It is usually unclear whether or not the film will stretch past the US Netflix catalog into different markets.
For the forthcoming sequel, subtitled The Bone Temple, director Danny Boyle has stepped down from the helm. The movie will as an alternative be directed by Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels). 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple opens in theatres on January 6.
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