28 Years Later’s Trailer Was So Enormous, 28 Days Later Is Making a Digital Comeback

Possibly it was the sheer quantity of followers who had the 28 Years Later trailer on repeat to attempt to discern whether or not or not that was Cillian Murphy taking part in a zombie (turns out, it was not), however the spot has racked up a jaw-dropping variety of views since its launch final week. In truth, the numbers had been so excessive for the Danny Boyle-Alex Garland three-quel that it’s impressed Sony to offer a significant push to the unique movie within the sequence, 2002’s 28 Days Later.

In line with Deadline, “not solely was the 28 Years Later trailer probably the most watched horror trailer in 2024 at 60.2M world views, nevertheless it’s additionally the second largest trailer of all-time behind It Chapter Two (96M views, $91M opening). Presently, the 28 Years Later trailer has racked up 146.1M world views.” That’s a variety of non-rotting eyeballs! The views don’t embody TikTok, the commerce notes, since TikTok viewership numbers might be skewed by movie-studio promoting—a little bit of inside baseball meaning in all probability much more folks have watched the dang trailer much more instances than has been reported.

At any charge, Sony—which has 28 Years Later popping out underneath its umbrella in June 2025—is seizing the zombie zeitgeist and bringing again 28 Days Later, the primary within the sequence that additionally contains 2007’s 28 Weeks Later; the movies had been “launched respectively by Searchlight Photos and Fox Atomic labels on the former twentieth Century Fox,” per Deadline. Sony’s 28 Days Later launch will probably be accessible for buy and rental December 18, a joyous day for zombie followers who’ve been dying to revisit the long-unavailable (bodily or digitally) title.

Excellent news if you wish to make it a double characteristic: you may stream 28 Weeks Later on a wide range of platforms, together with Disney+ and Prime Video. 28 Years Later hits theaters June 20, 2025.

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