Cillian Murphy: Last News

We finally have an update on The Weeknd‘s debut movie!

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy’s first film after winning the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer.

There’s been some exciting updates about the Peaky Blinders movie that Netflix is producing!

The Bone Temple, the sequel to Danny Boyle‘s and Alex Garland’s anticipated 2025 zombie flick 28 Years Later has received its release date.28 Years Later, which is due for release in June 2025 will mark the long-awaited return of the beloved franchise, and will see the return of Cillian Murphy alongside new leads Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes. Murphy will produce, while Boyle and Garland – who helmed the acclaimed 2002 original – return to direct and write.The 2025 film will kick off a planned trilogy for the series, which will see Garland write for all, but Boyle only directing the first.

Matthew Warchus (Matilda: The Musical) is set to direct the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reimagining in the works from Amazon MGM Studios and EON Productions, Amazon said Thursday.

Sony has already set a release date for the second film in their newly revamped 28 Days trilogy —28 Years Later: The Bone Temple— which will hit theaters on Jan. 16, 2026.

Katcy Stephan The second film in the “28 Years Later” trilogy, “The Bone Temple,” has landed a Jan. 16, 2026 domestic release date from Columbia Pictures. The project’s MLK weekend release comes just six months after the first trilogy entry “28 Years Later,” which is slated for June 20, 2025.

HBO’s Harry Potter reboot, showrunner Francesca Gardiner shared.Deadline reported that Gardiner shared the impressive figure during this month’s Max Showcase in London, with hordes of youngsters hoping to emulate Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.The process to find children to play Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger has been ongoing for months, after the reboot’s casting director Lucy Bevan published an open callout asking for children aged between nine and 11 as of April 2025 who are residents of the UK and Ireland.In the initial round, candidates were asked to submit two videos. In the first, they’d be performing a short story or poem, while in the second, they’d be talking about themselves as well as a family member, friend, or pet.Now, it’s thought that Bevan and her team have begun chemistry reads with some of the budding actors, as Deadline is told that the children progressing through the rounds are in various stages of recall – and a decision on casting is expected soon.Gardiner said at the Max Showcase that the team were getting through up to 1,000 tapes a day to find “some of the finest cream of British talent,” with sources telling Deadline that casting executives can get through tapes quickly, often deciding within a minute whether they want to send someone through to the next round.More news regarding the adult cast is expected to arrive reasonably soon, before shooting begins at Warner Bros.

28 Years Later is the most-watched horror trailer of 2024 and the second most-watched of all time, it’s been revealed.The 28 Years Later trailer, which dropped on December 10, amassed an impressive 60.2million global views in its first 24 hours, and 141.6million global views altogether. This makes it the second-biggest trailer of all time, after It Chapter Two, which amassed almost 100million global views in the first 24 hours.The 28 Years Later trailer beat out the trailers for huge movies including The Nun, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Halloween, and from this year, Smile 2 and Nosferatu.Deadline has reported that, as a result, Sony is releasing the original 2002 movie 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, for purchase and rental tomorrow (December 18).The movie’s development began back in 2007, and after multiple delays, it’s set for release on June 20, 2025.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer A game based on the Justin Timberlake-starring 2011 sci-fi action film “In Time” is launching Thursday on Fortnite as part of a new deal Snoop Dogg‘s Death Row Games has struck to adapted New Regency‘s film library into titles on the popular gaming platform. The collaboration between Death Row Games’ Good Game Champ division will be developed using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), beginning with “In Time,” which is described as “a natural fit for the dynamic UEFN platform, delivering fans an unparalleled ‘AAA gaming experience.'” The film it’s based on was directed by Andrew Niccol and starred Timberlake alongside Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy and Olivia Wilde and currently holds a 36% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

New Regency and Death Row Games are teaming up to bring library film titles to Fortnite, starting with sci-fi action thriller In Time.

In this age of streaming and on demand services, many people have ditched the DVD collections that were taking up space in their house.

The internet went wild for Cillian Murphy as a zombie, but it seems people have bitten off more than they can chew.

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later does not feature Cillian Murphy, despite the internet’s initial assumptions.The official trailer for the long-anticipated film dropped on Tuesday (December 10), confirming the movie’s release date of June 20, 2025 and its tagline: “Time didn’t heal anything”.As had been previously confirmed, the trailer features the film’s core cast of Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes, but it was one particular “infested” that is briefly shown in the clip that got fans online speculating.The inclusion of a skinny, emaciated, zombie-like character with a seemingly familiar jawline led many to assume that it was in fact Murphy under the makeup, with one fan noting: “I swear to god, this better not be Jim in #28YearsLater because if it is you ruined my excitement for Cillian’s return to the franchise by infecting him.”I swear to god, this better not be Jim in #28YearsLater because if it is you ruined my excitement for Cillian’s return to the franchise by infecting him pic.twitter.com/GDdTRnpb00— WanderDragon99

BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders.The ‘90s football star transitioned into acting after his playing career, appearing in a number of high-profile films including Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Gone In 60 Seconds.He is also about to make his stage debut as Danny Driscoll in Only Fools And Horses: The Musical, for a three week run at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.While promoting that show, he has appeared on Chris Moyles’ show on Radio X, and has opened up about his desire to have been cast in the hit Birmingham-set show with Cillian Murphy.“…Fools and Horses, it’s one of them where you look at it, same as that Peaky Blinders,” he said. “I wish I’d have done that, because I thought I was made for that as well.”“Some things you think you’re made for,” he added.He went on to discuss the “honour” of being involved in the stage musical of the popular sitcom, describing it as every footballer of his generation’s favourite TV show.Jones also starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen series on Netflix earlier this year, which has been recommissioned for a second season.

the trailer that dropped Tuesday.The new footage features franchise newcomers Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes fighting zombies in a post-apocalyptic world.In one scene, Jim is seemingly shown creepily arising from behind a bush nearby Comer’s character.Meanwhile, Taylor-Johnson’s character walks around with a bow and arrow and then comes across a zombie in a terrifying moment.“What will humanity become?” the tagline for the trailer says.In 2002’s “28 Days Later,” Jim is a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma in London to a post-apocalyptic world reeling from the accidental release of a highly contagious virus. Murphy starred in the original film opposite Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns and Christopher Eccleston.Murphy did not reprise his role in 2007’s “28 Weeks Later,” which starred Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau and Idris Elba.Murphy is not listed as a cast member in the promotional material for “28 Years Later,” according to Variety, but he is an executive producer on the film.The logline for the upcoming film reads, “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.”“One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway,” the summary continues.

Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are seen fighting for their lives in the gripping new trailer for Danny Boyle's much-anticipated zombie sequel, 28 Years Later.The film is set in the same world as the 2002 apocalyptic horror flick 28 Days Later, which featured Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover society has crumbled following the accidental release of a highly infectious, rage-sparking virus.The latest instalment takes place almost three decades after the virus broke free from a bio-weapons lab, with a few managing to survive among the infected despite stringent quarantine measures.The plot thickens when one member of the group leaves their safe island for a mission on the mainland, revealing horrifying secrets and terrors that have not only mutated the infected but also other survivors.The high-octane trailer plunges straight into the action, starting with a group of children being quietened while watching Teletubbies on TV, before blood splashes across the screen accompanied by a woman's shriek.The words "it began 10,228 days ago. Days became weeks.

28 Years Later has finally been shared and many fans fear that Cillian Murphy‘s character may have come to a sorry end.It was previously confirmed that Murphy, who played bicycle courier Jim in the first movie in the series 28 Days Later, would be returning for the current sequel “in a surprising way and in a way that grows [the character]”.Although it has not been confirmed, one of the zombies in the trailer bore a striking resemblance to the Oscar winner.Fans have also been speculating with one writing: “I swear to god, this better not be Jim in #28YearsLater because if it is you ruined my excitement for Cillian’s return to the franchise by infecting him.”Another added: “Either Cillian Murphy is having fun with a double role or Jim does not have a happy ending in his fate.”I swear to god, this better not be Jim in #28YearsLater because if it is you ruined my excitement for Cillian’s return to the franchise by infecting him pic.twitter.com/GDdTRnpb00— WanderDragon99

Paul Mescal is selling items of clothing that he wore during the Gladiator II promo tour on Vinted.

Aaron Taylor Johnson‘s new movie trailer, 28 Years Later, debuted as he paid visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night (December 9) in Los Angeles.

The first official trailer has been released today for 28 Years Later starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Comer, which will be released in cinemas on 20 June 2025.