Danny Boyle: Last News

John Bleasdale Guest Contributor Freida Pinto took a break from her jury duties at the Red Sea Film Festival to talk to Variety about her career and her hopes for the future. The Indian actor shot to world fame for her starring role in Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) and remains committed to the breadth of cinema. “I’ve always looked at cinema globally,” she tells Variety.

Carolyn Giardina At least a dozen 2025 movies will be mastered for the newly-launched HDR by Barco laser projectors, the cinema tech developer revealed at CinemaCon. They include Universal’s “How to Train Your Dragon,” which opens June 13 and received an enthusiastic reception when it premiered Wednesday at the theater owners confab. In addition to dragons, Universal is bringing dinosaurs to the format.

John Lydon has hit out at the Sex Pistols’ reunion again, saying he will never rejoin the band.Earlier this year, the former Pistols frontman criticised the reunion with Frank Carter branding it “karaoke” to NME.Now, in a new interview with PA (via The Independent), when asked if he would reunite with the band, Lydon said: “Never, not after what I consider their dirty deeds, let them wallow in Walt Disney woke expectations. They’ve killed the content, or done their best to, and turned the whole thing into a rubbish, childishness, and that’s unacceptable.”He added: “Sorry, I’m not going to give a helping hand to this any longer, as far as I am concerned, I am the Pistols, and they’re not.”The singer-songwriter previously fought a high-profile court battle against guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook in a bid to stop their songs being used in a 2022 Disney+ series of their story, Pistol, which was directed by Danny Boyle.

28 Years Later director Danny Boyle has confirmed that Cillian Murphy will be in the forthcoming trilogy.The third film in the franchise that started with 2002’s 28 Days Later will be released in cinemas on June 20, with a follow-up, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, arriving in 2026. A third movie is also in the works.The first trailer for this new trilogy was released in December of last year and became the most watched trailer of 2024.

Sony showed off the second trailer for its highly anticipated horror sequel 28 Years Later at CinemaCon today — a tense few minutes that focus largely on Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character, who leaves a pristine island to head to a zombie-infested mainland.

Danny Boyle is working on a trilogy of movies as the follow-up to his 2002 zombie film 28 Days Later and he’s teasing star Cillian Murphy‘s return to the franchise.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Turns out zombies don’t mellow with age.Sony Pictures unleashed an extended look at Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” – the threequel to the director’s groundbreaking 2002 outbreak film – at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Monday night. The franchise refresh picks up, well, 28 years after the terrifying Rage virus broke out across the globe (pandemics now being shorthand for worldwide audiences). Man has found a way to survive amongst the flesh-eating zombies, on a remote English island connected to the mainland.

John Lydon to participate in Sex Pistols‘ reunion shows.The London punk band, who last performed with Lydon in 2008, headed out on a UK comeback tour last autumn, with Frank Carter stepping in as frontman. This followed two intimate gigs at London’s Bush Hall, where they played ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ in full.They have since announced further live appearances for 2025, including Download Festival and the Teenage Cancer Trust series at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Additionally, guitarist Jones told NME that Sex Pistols would be hitting the road in the US.During a new interview with Rolling Stone AU – ahead of the group’s spring tour dates in New Zealand and Australia – Jones explained that he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to Lydon in 17 years.Their relationship suffered further after the former frontman lost a court battle over the use of Sex Pistols’ music in Danny Boyle’s 2022 biographical mini-series, Pistol.“We don’t talk,” Jones told RS AU.

BAFTA winner Jack O’Connell (Sinners) has closed a deal to join the next theatrical feature in Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise, Deadline can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: “Someone once said the quickest way to understand the Brits is by watching episodes of Come Dine With Me,” says the series producer behind the beloved UK format, which turned 20 last month.

EXCLUSIVE: Zygi Kamasa, the veteran film executive who launched True Brit Entertainment 15 months ago, is on a scary mission to bring back Britain’s horror film heritage. Today, he reveals that his company will release period shocker The Dreadful starring Game of Thrones duo Sophie Turner and Kit Harington and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock, Mystic River, The Morning Show) in the UK.

Cillian Murphy won’t be making an appearance in this year’s 28 Years Later after all – find out more below.28 Years Later, which is due for release in June 2025 will mark the long-awaited return of the beloved franchise, and will follow new leads Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland – who helmed the acclaimed 2002 original – return to direct and write respectively.Last year, it was reported that Murphy – who led the original 2002 film 28 Days Later – would be involved in the new sequel trilogy as an executive producer, and that he would be returning for the new film “in a surprising way and in a way that grows [the character]”.This was further sparked by a zombie in the 28 Years Later trailer who eerily resembled Murphy, though this was later confirmed to be a character is played by model and art dealer Angus Neill instead.Now, however, in a new interview with Empire, producer Andrew Macdonald has confirmed that Cillian will not appear onscreen in the upcoming 2025 film, though there’s hope for his appearance in one of its two planned sequels: “We wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved.

Fans will have to wait a little longer for Cillian Murphy‘s triumphant return to the 28 Days Later franchise.

After the trailer for “28 Years Later” broke all kinds of records on release last month, it felt inevitable that an announced but yet-to-be-filmed third film would get greenlit. Now Empire reveals, via Danny Boyle himself, that the trilogy-capper indeed will happen, and he’ll direct it.

The movie 28 Days Later is getting a sequel in 2025, but the film has not been available for at-home viewing in a long time.

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.

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.

28 Days Later” was a smash hit taking in a nearly $85 million worldwide box office haul. And while the post-apocalyptic horror film is very popular, it’s also tough to find on DVD and Blu-ray because it’s been out-of-print for years. But, “28 Days Later” is available to watch on Prime Video and other video-on-demand platforms.

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.

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.

Pulp‘s Jarvis Cocker has opened up about the creation of their song ‘Mile End’ for Danny Boyle‘s film Trainspotting.The iconic frontman was the latest guest of Criterion‘s Closet Picks series on YouTube. The series sees select artists visit the American home-video distribution company’s DVD closet and allows them to choose and explain their favourite films from the Criterion collection.While picking his favourite films, Cocker mentioned Trainspotting, the 1996 classic which follows the lives of a group of heroin addicts and their friends living in Leith, Edinburgh.

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