I posted this in the horror thread but I had a hard time with the beginning just cause it was so brutal and I notice the older I get the harder of a time I have with that stuff. But I was so sold by the end. I can't imagine the lower ticket sales should be surprising to anyone? I feel like this and 28 years later (or at least the end of it) were kinda weird to be concise. It feels like it has cult following written all over it rather than box office smash. It did take me a few weeks to see it tho. Just saw it yesterday. A combo of work burnout and poor weather made me put it off even tho I was excited for it
Came across a Reddit post on r/moviedetails about this movie and like half the thread is people claiming to not know that 28 Years Later and Bone Temple are two different movies
Feel like I get a lot of insight from @irthesteve about how obvious you have to make a movie to get people to watch it (Like when I complain to him about how ugly Blu-Ray covers are because they swap out cool cover art with generic shots of the main cast.) Never underestimate how dense the general public is.
I clearly didn't work on the movie, but I do think that the titling is extremely important to this issue. If we released, it would have been "The Bone Temple: A 28 Years Later Story" or some shit like that, leading with "28 Years Later" which is already the third film in a trilogy, is confusing
Never should have skipped Months. It is post-apocalyptic anyway so it isn't like the time matters. Then you can get to 28 Decades Later for part five.
Finally got to watch this today now that it’s available for VOD. Thought Nia DaCosta did a fantastic job with this and that Iron Maiden scene was cathartic as hell. The one and only thing I really missed from the last one was the score by Young Fathers. I listened to that repeatedly last summer.
Saw a tweet that was like start a gofundme and let film twitter fund it and I legitimately think that would get them most of the way there lol.
Good to know. I unfortunately don’t know much about what’s super reliable or not but the interwebs ran with this one yesterday. I hope it’s false. It even made claims that Netflix was interested but Boyle wasn’t interested because of theatrical release. Partly why I didn’t link an article since its rumors
Giving people false hope by suggesting it might just be a reference to the fact that a lot of people only care about Cillian.
I'm not surprised, but I think it is very dumb on their part to not realize that there are things about the planned third movie, particularly in front of the camera, that tend to increase the box office take. plus, they could always try to get the budget down a bit and make it for less than $60-63 million.