28 Years Later‘s Trailer Was So Huge, 28 Days Later Is Making a Digital Comeback

Maybe it was the sheer magnitude of fans who had the 28 Years Later trailer connected repetition to effort and discern whether oregon not that was Cillian Murphy playing a zombie (turns out, it was not), but the spot has racked up a jaw-dropping fig of views since its merchandise past week. In fact, the numbers were truthful precocious for the Danny Boyle-Alex Garland three-quel that it’s inspired Sony to springiness a large propulsion to the archetypal movie successful the series, 2002’s 28 Days Later.

According to Deadline, “not lone was the 28 Years Later trailer the astir watched fearfulness trailer successful 2024 astatine 60.2M planetary views, but it’s besides the 2nd biggest trailer of all-time behind It Chapter Two (96M views, $91M opening). Currently, the 28 Years Later trailer has racked up 146.1M planetary views.” That’s a batch of non-rotting eyeballs! The views bash not see TikTok, the commercialized notes, since TikTok viewership numbers tin beryllium skewed by movie-studio advertising—a spot of wrong shot that means astir apt adjacent much radical person watched the dang trailer adjacent much times than has been reported.

At immoderate rate, Sony—which has 28 Years Later coming retired nether its umbrella successful June 2025—is seizing the zombie zeitgeist and bringing backmost 28 Days Later, the archetypal successful the bid that besides includes 2007’s 28 Weeks Later; the films were “released respectively by Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic labels astatine the erstwhile 20th Century Fox,” per Deadline. Sony’s 28 Days Later merchandise volition beryllium disposable for acquisition and rental December 18, a joyous time for zombie fans who’ve been dying to revisit the long-unavailable (physically or digitally) title.

Good quality if you privation to marque it a treble feature: you tin watercourse 28 Weeks Later connected a assortment of platforms, including Disney+ and Prime Video. 28 Years Later hits theaters June 20, 2025.

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