Screen Talk Previews ’28 Years Later’ at the Box Office — and Fall Festival Hopefuls

The June 20 container agency play looks for illustration different blockbuster double-header pinch nan releases of Disney/Pixar’s animated family film “Elio” and Sony’s R-rated post-apocalyptic sequel “28 Years Later.” Danny Boyle’s follow-up to his groundbreaking 2002 zombie classical “28 Days Later” has immoderate of nan champion 2025 reviews for a franchise movie. (IndieWire’s reappraisal is here.)

Even if, arsenic “Screen Talk” co-hosts Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson talk connected this week’s IndieWire podcast episode, Ryan recovered it yet cloying and sentimental contempt nan imaginative filmmaking. Boyle (working from original “28 Days Later” scribe Alex Garland’s script) changeable nan movie wholly connected nan iPhone 15 Pro Max utilizing rig technology, pinch nan movie introducing a “poor man’s slug time” (as Boyle described to IndieWire) for immoderate of nan grisliest kills of those infected by nan “Rage” virus.

“28 Years Later” introduces caller characters played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and young newcomer Alfie Williams arsenic members of a nine eking retired endurance amid nan virus’ containment successful Great Britain. The movie is search to gross $28 cardinal complete nan play but stands to transcend that figure. The caller movie was changeable back-to-back pinch nan sequel “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” pinch a 3rd movie group to prima Cillian Murphy still awaiting nan charismatic greenish light.

Also opening this week is nan Pixar abstraction escapade “Elio.” An original is ever a challenge, and this 1 could unfastened soft and build, nan measurement some “Elemental” ($484 cardinal worldwide) and “Encanto” did ($230 million). It’s a delightful look astatine a young abstraction seed who desperately wanted aliens to find him and invited him, and past they do! In position of nan 2025 animation slate, though, Anne preferred nan little costly Cannes offering “Arco,” which is group successful nan early and was picked up by Neon.

The summertime container agency is looking up again aft disappointing outings for illustration “John Wick” franchise introduction “Ballerina” and “Karate Kid: Legends.” The live-action “How to Train Your Dragon” has grossed much than $227 cardinal worldwide since opening June 13. In position of communicative and scope, it’s very adjacent to nan 2010 animated original, and singularly, it’s directed by animator Dean DeBlois, who directed nan animated trilogy, each nominated for Best Animated Feature.

On this week’s “Screen Talk,” Anne and Ryan besides look down nan pike astatine what could play astatine nan autumn festivals, pinch “Bugonia” (Yorgos Lanthimos), “Hamnet” (Chloé Zhao), and “After nan Hunt” (Luca Guadagnino) expected to play nan Venice-to-Telluride circuit. We cognize Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” will play Venice. Cannes winners for illustration “Sirât” (Oliver Laxe) and “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier) will almost surely make a scatter astatine Telluride.

The Venice lineup will beryllium revealed nan past week of July, and, per usual, we won’t person nan Telluride database until Labor Day weekend.

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