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

Perhaps it was the sheer quantity of followers who had the 28 Years Later trailer on repeat to try 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 actual fact, the numbers have been so excessive for the Danny Boyle-Alex Garland three-quel that it’s impressed Sony to offer a serious push to the unique movie within the collection, 2002’s 28 Days Later.

In response to Deadline, “not solely was the 28 Years Later trailer probably the most watched horror trailer in 2024 at 60.2M world views, but it surely’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 loads of non-rotting eyeballs! The views don’t embrace TikTok, the commerce notes, since TikTok viewership numbers will be skewed by movie-studio promoting—a little bit of inside baseball which means most likely much more individuals have watched the dang trailer much more occasions than has been reported.

At any fee, 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 collection that additionally contains 2007’s 28 Weeks Later; the movies have been “launched respectively by Searchlight Footage and Fox Atomic labels on the former twentieth Century Fox,” per Deadline. Sony’s 28 Days Later launch can be out there 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 function: 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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