The fourth film in the series of zombie infected movies, and a direct sequel to
28 Years Later,
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple lands at the top of the UK box office this weekend with £3.3 Million.
The series is loosing steam as this is well over a million shy of the previous movie in the series which took £4.7 Million in its debut last year.
Falling from the top is The Housemaid which is at number 2 this weekend with a gross of £2.8 Million on its 4th weekeend of release.
The movie has shown incredible longevity in the UK and this weeks takes over from Avatar: Fire and Ash as the top movie of 2026 and has a total gross over £22 Million sice its release in 2025.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (@1)
- Longest run - Zootopia 2 (8 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Avatar: Fire and Ash (£38,439,770)
- Best Percentage change week on week - The Housemaid (-20%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £15,706,039
- Also new this weekend
- Rental Family
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Mana Shankara Varaprasad Garu
- Parasakthi
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 18th January 2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £3,376,384 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of January
- The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to 28 Years Later which took £4,780,374 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,827,934 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £22,630,490 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
Hamnet
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,608,944 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £8,396,010 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,702,004 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £38,439,770 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water which took £63,733,633 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
Marty Supreme
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,478,246 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,911,144 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - £3,376,384
- The Housemaid - £2,827,934
- Hamnet - £2,608,944
- Avatar: Fire and Ash - £1,702,004
- Marty Supreme - £1,478,246
- Zootopia 2 - £981,351
- Rental Family - £521,717
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - £473,377
- The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants - £467,289
- Anaconda - £300,917
See full chart
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
