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Prime Target is a mystery thriller drama miniseries created by Steve Thompson. The Apple TV+ series follows Edward Brooks, a brilliant post-graduate mathematics student who discovers that his work could potentially become the key to access every computer in the world. He soon begins to notice that people want to destroy his work. Prime Target stars Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindell, Sidse Babett Knudsen, David Morrissey, Stephen Rea, and Fra Fee. So, if you loved the thrilling conspiracy, mysterious story, and compelling characters in Prime Target, here are some shows you should check out next.

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London Spy is a British conspiracy and mystery thriller drama series created by Tom Rob Smith. The BBC Two series follows Danny, a young man who meets and falls in love with Alex, a brilliant MI6 code genius.

“Silo” Season 2 came to a fiery end last week — delivering a finale designed to leave viewers with plenty of questions about the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama’s next steps and the fates of both Bernard (Tim Robbins) and Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson). The series has already been renewed for a third season, as well as a fourth that is being billed as its last, which means fans will get to see its latest mysteries resolved eventually. When that will be is unclear, as Apple has yet to announce a return date for “Silo.”

Fortunately, while “Silo” has an atmosphere, tone, and look that are entirely its own, there are a few series that scratch many of the same itches as it. Here are six shows, in particular, that we here at TheWrap recommend you watch while you wait for “Silo” Season 3.

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HBO’s “Westworld” may have gone out...

A tradition stretching back to genre pioneers like 1973’s pagan freakout The Wicker Man, British folk horror can be bonkers (Alex Garland’s Men), hypnotically abstract (Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men) or disorienting (Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth). What it ideally shouldn’t be is boring. Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap has a creepy sense of dread, striking images of invasive nature and an intriguing baseline about the otherworldly properties of sound, making it a somewhat promising debut feature. “With your eyes you enter the world, with your ears the world enters you,” says one of the characters. Which would mean something if the muddled story were coherent enough to achieve any kind of psychological penetration.

The lesson here might be read as: Don’t go poking around ancient woodlands with recording devices, and whatever you do, don’t go mixing what you find into grating avant-garde “music” and...

In what sounds like a match made in heaven hell, The Sadness director Rob Jabbaz is set to helm the upcoming feature adaptation of Garth Ennis' Crossed.

Following the massive success of Prime Video's The Boys, we got word that Ennis' even more twisted, depraved and downright diabolical horror series is headed to the big screen late last year. The movie is in development at indie outfit Six Studios, and Ennis has already completed the script.

“It has been a real delight working with Garth Ennis and Six Studios developing Crossed for the big screen,” said Jabbaz. “From day one, our primary goal has been to deliver a faithful adaptation of the original series, along with a few new surprises. I certainly hope audiences are ready for this.”

Crossed and its various spin-offs are generally considered to be among the most disturbing comics of all time, and with good reason.

Exclusive: Edmund Donovan, an up-and-comer known for roles in Alex Garland’s Civil War and Sundance genre-bender Your Monster, has landed a key role opposite Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee in Late Fame, the new film from director Kent Jones (Diane), which is entering production this week.

Written by May December‘s Samy Burch, Late Fame is a portrait of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), a postal worker who wrote and published poetry such a long time ago that he’s forgotten he ever was a poet. When a group of young writers and students rediscovers one of his books and reclaims him as one of their own, he finds, against his better judgment, that he likes it: the attention and the hero worship draw him out of his solitary routines and renew his spirit. How quickly he starts to see himself as a true artist… how coarse and vulgar his old friends begin to look.

A24’s latest high concept horror film has the grandiose title of Opus, and the trailer has landed. Take a look here.

Film studio A24 has proved itself to be a frontrunner in bold, original, risk taking storytelling, usually with small budgets and tidy profits. From distributing daring titles like Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina and Robert Eggers’ The Witch, it soon moved into producing. Examples? The Safdie Brothers’ anxiety inducing Uncut Gems, Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Oscar winning Everything Everywhere All At Once. A24 has become quite the stamp.

Its next release is the thriller Opus. And the synopsis for it reads as follows…

A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she...

28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have finally reunited to make a sequel to their zombie movie classic. As we reporter earlier this year, this sequel is set up at Sony, is going to be called 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch a whole trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. The theatrical release date is June 20th, 2025… and when the film reaches the screen, Garland has said that fans will find that 28 Years Later does not conflict with the previous sequel 28 Weeks Later, even if canon isn’t something Boyle pays much attention to.

The cast of 28 Years Later includes Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). In the original film, Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) played bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to find himself...

Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit period series “Shōgun,” has landed a role in Guy Ritchie’s next film, “Wife & Dog.”

The Brit joins a heady lineup of names already confirmed for the feature, first announced by Variety last year and set to see Ritchie return to the colourful, backstabbing world of the British upper classes (doubling down on a subject he recently explored in “The Gentleman” film and TV series). Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Anthony Hopkins have been announced as leading the feature and, while plot details remain under wraps, Jarvis is understood to be to playing Hopkins’ son and Pike’s sister.

The “Wife & Dog” screenplay is written by Ritchie, who also produces alongside long-time producing partner, Ivan Atkinson and Black Bear’s John Friedberg. Executive producers include Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler for Black Bear.

After breaking out alongside Florence Pugh and...

Warfare's release date has been announced by A24, and it means that Alex Garland's new movie could repeat Civil War's success. After Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, and Civil War, Garland co-wrote and co-directed his next project alongside Ray Mendoza, and the film is based on the former's experiences during the Iraq War, following a platoon of Navy SEALs on a mission through insurgent territory in 2006. The cast includes D'Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique Zaga, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton.

Per Deadline, A24 has set a nationwide theatrical release for Warfare on April 11. This is around the same time that Alex Garland's Civil War opened to much box office success for the studio in 2024. Other movies opening on April 11 include Christopher Landon's thriller Drop from Universal/Blumhouse, the espionage thriller The Amateur...

Exclusive: A24 has set an April 11 nationwide theatrical release for Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Iraq War feature Warfare.

Last year, on the second weekend of April, A24 released Garland’s dystopian political thriller Civil War which wound up the studio’s biggest stateside opening at $25.5 million and its second highest-grossing movie ever with $127M worldwide.

Also opening April 11 is Universal/Blumhouse’s The Drop, 20th Century Studios The Amateur and Angel Studios’ King of Kings.

Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare told in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it, the cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman and Henrique Zaga,...

28 Days Later marked the second collaboration for director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland after 2000's The Beach. While the latter isn't widely seen as a seminal work for either creative, the former certainly is. The 2002 zombie thriller stars Cillian Murphy as Jim, a survivor who attempts to traverse London in search of sanctuary following the outbreak of the Rage Virus in the U.K.

Boyle and Garland returned as executive producers for the sequel, 28 Weeks Later (2007), but Boyle is now back as director and Garland as screenwriter for the upcoming 28 Years Later, which marks a reunion after 18 years of working on their own projects. In those 18 years, Boyle directed movies like Slumdog Millionaire (2008), 127 Hours (2010), and Steve Jobs (2015), while Garland moved into directing with projects like Ex Machina (2014), Annihilation (2018), and Civil War (2024). Now, it's been revealed why the pair didn't work together for so long.

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2024 was a great year for horror fans as we got horrifyingly beautiful films like Nosferatu and Longlegs. While 2024 was a great year, 2025 is going to be something as we will see the release of much-anticipated films like the Last Conjuring film and Guillermo del Toro‘s take on the classic novel Frankenstein. So, we decided to compile a list of the most anticipated horror films that are coming in 2025.

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Presence is an upcoming supernatural horror thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by David Koepp. The upcoming film revolves around a family who move into a suburban neighborhood and soon believe their house is haunted. While the plot for Presence sounds like a typical horror film, the ultimate twist, aka hook for the upcoming Soderbergh film, is that the film is shot from the ghost’s perspective.

25 películas que no querrás perderte.

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¿Qué nos deparará el 2025? Hablamos en términos de cine, por supuesto. Y es que hay de todo este año: cine de autor, blockbusters, animación o live-actions que evocan la nostalgia y despiertan a nuestro niño interior, producciones diseñadas para emocionarnos, hacernos reír, y mantenernos al borde de nuestras butacas… El cine siempre logra sorprendernos, y este 2025 no será la excepción.

Marta Medina y Álvaro Campoy, miembros del equipo de mundoCine, han recopilado una lista de las que, para ellos, son las películas más esperadas de este 2025, y cada título incluye sus fechas de estreno (si es que las tienen).

Sin más dilación, aquí os dejamos el top de las películas más esperadas de 2025, 25 en total, seleccionadas cuidadosamente por el equipo de mundoCine, en riguroso orden alfabético:

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Si el regreso al universo zombie de Danny Boyle no acaba de entusiasmarte,...

Titus Welliver and Juani Feliz have been cast in guest star roles in an upcoming episode of “The Equalizer,” which could set up a potential spinoff based on their characters.

It was first reported in November that CBS was eyeing a spinoff of the Queen Latifah-led reboot of the 1980s action crime drama of the same name. Now, Welliver and Feliz will appear in episode 16 of the show’s ongoing fifth season with series regular options should the spinoff move forward.

Welliver will play Hudson Reed, described as “a former top CIA operative with a dark secret who is connected to Robin McCall (Queen Latifah) by an old mentor.” Feliz will play Samanta Reed, who is said to be “trained by her father to be a weapons expert, skilled martial artist and true chameleon all while hiding a mysterious past.”

Welliver is coming off of a decade-long stint playing the character Det.

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Severance is a sci-fi psychological mystery thriller drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series is set in a world where people can undergo a medical procedure to separate their work memories from their other memories. The procedure is called “severance” and can only be done by a biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, where most of the story takes place. We follow Mark S. and his team of severed workers as they do mysterious work for Lumon Industries, but strange occurrences force them to question the reality of their existence and jobs. Severance stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, and Sarah Bock. So, if you loved the mind-bending concept, thrilling mysteries, and compelling characters in Severance, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

’28 Years Later’ is an upcoming horror film set in a post-apocalyptic world, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It’s the third movie in the ’28 Days Later’ series, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Cillian Murphy, who also acts as an executive producer.

Unlike the previous films, this one isn’t produced by 20th Century Studios. It’s a joint project between Columbia Pictures, the British Film Institute, Decibel Films, and DNA Films. The film will be released on June 20, 2025, and was filmed on an iPhone, along with its sequel, ’28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple.’

For now, the plot is mostly under wraps, but we do know some details regarding its general setting.

Nearly 30 years after the Rage Virus spread from a lab, some survivors live on a small island, cut off from the infected mainland by a heavily guarded causeway. When one survivor ventures into the mainland,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Once again, the last time the Best Original Screenplay Oscar was won exclusively by someone who did not direct the film was in 2011 for “The King’s Speech.” More specifically, the last time a director won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay who was not also nominated for Best Director that year was when Spike Jonze won for “Her” a decade ago.

So with that in mind, consider Sean Baker (“Anora”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), and Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold (“The Brutalist”) shoo-ins for a...

The filmmakers behind 28 Years Later have explained its connection to the previous installment's ending. The original 2002 movie 28 Days Later introduced a rage virus that transformed the majority of the UK's population into zombie-like disease-spreaders. While the virus had largely burned out by the end of the movie, repopulation efforts in 2007's 28 Weeks Later saw it spread once more, ending with a sequence of Infected running through Paris. In the upcoming 28 Years Later, while the rage virus has affected the outside world somewhat, it is once more primarily isolated to the UK, which has been quarantined.

In the newest print edition of Empire magazine, they ran an interview about 28 Years Later with Garland, Boyle, and producer Andrew Macdonald. While Garland explained that the new movie is "not in conflict" with 28 Weeks Later, the idea of canon is "not a very Danny Boyle word." Macdonald says that "Britain has paused,...

The Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East have chimed in with their selection of the best writing among television and film offerings of 2024. The 2025 WGA Awards nomination announcement was delayed a week due to the devastating fires that hit Los Angeles and scorched more than 40,000 acres. The guild currently plans to stick with its Saturday, February 15th date for the awards ceremony.

Ceremonies will take place in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton and in New York City as the Edison Ballroom.

WGA Awards 2025 Nominees

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain, Written by Jesse Eisenberg; Searchlight Pictures

Anora, Written by Sean Baker; Neon

Challengers, Written by Justin Kuritzkes; Amazon MGM Studios

Civil War, Written by Alex Garland; A24

My Old Ass, Written by Megan Park; Amazon MGM Studios

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, Based on the Book Dylan Goes Electric!

After a couple of postponements in consideration of the ongoing wildfires in California, the Writers Guild of America announced on Wednesday the nominations for the 2025 WGA Awards honoring film, TV, and several other mediums.

As always, the guild’s film nominations come with the caveat that any script not written by a guild member or under a WGA collective bargaining agreement was deemed ineligible, so major screenplay Oscar contenders like “The Brutalist” and “The Substance” were left out. What was nominated in their stead is the real indicator of some titles that are still not out of the awards race just yet.

The primary example on the Original Screenplay side is “Challengers,” which was just shut out of the BAFTAs the same day the WGA Awards nominations arrived. While the film’s best shot at an Oscar nomination is still for Best Original Score, “Challengers” screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes has been...

While Hollywood continues to reel from the devastating L.A. wildfires, the WGA is honoring some of the film industry’s best and brightest by announcing the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards nominees. The yearly celebration of excellence in film, TV, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing is always a highlight of the year, as the event brings attention to many hard-working individuals across a broad spectrum of entertainment.

Anora, A Real Pain, Challengers, Civil War, and My Old Ass are among the films nominated for the Original Screenplay category, while shows like The Boys, The Diplomat, Fallout, Mr. & Mr.s Smith, and Shōgun compete for Drama Series excellence.

The WGA plans to announce the winners on February 15 in New York at the Edison Ballroom and in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Here are the nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards:

Screenplay

Original Screenplay

A Real Pain,...

Hit Man and My Old Ass join awards heavyweights Anora, A Real Pain and Dune: Part Two in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominations announced on Wednesday after being delayed due to the ongoing LA wildfires.

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Challengers and Civil War are included in the original screenplay category, while Wicked, Nickel Boys and A Complete Unknown are in contention for adapted screenplay.

Vying for documentary honours are Jim Henson: Idea Man, Kiss The Future, Martha, and War Game.

Eligibility rules excluded The Brutalist, Conclave,Emilia Perez,All We Imagine As Light,Hard Truths, andThe Outrun.

The...

Anora, A Complete Unknown, Challengers, Hit Man, and Wicked are among the 2025 Writers Guild of America Awards nominees.

In Best Original Screenplay, Anora and Challengers are up against A Real Pain, Civil War, and My Old Ass. The Best Adapted Screenplay lineup features A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys, and Wicked.

The nominations were announced Wednesday, a week after the guild postponed its scheduled Jan. 9 announcement due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

As previously reported, dozens of scripts — including several top Oscar hopefuls — were ineligible for consideration this year. A screenplay is ineligible if it’s produced outside of the WGA’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member.

The ineligible adapted scripts were Golden Globe champ Conclave (by Peter Straughan), Emilia Pérez (by Jacques Audiard), I’m Still Here (by Walter Salles), Inside Out 2 (by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein with a...

Despite having to postpone its announcement due to the turmoil currently being faced in Los Angeles as a result of the Southern California wildfires, the Writers Guild of America has now released its nominations for the 2025 WGA Awards.

The Writers Guild of America West (Wgaw) and Writers Guild of America East (Wgae) have revealed nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing for work released in 2024.

Screenplays for “A Real Pain,” “Anora,” “Challengers,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked,” and “Nickel Boys” were all featured among the nominees. Surprise nods include Glen Powell and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” and Megan Park’s “My Old Ass,” boosting their chances as Oscar voting wraps up.

For those confused as to why some films aren’t represented amongst the nominations, “All We Imagine As Light,” “The Brutalist,” “A Different Man,” “Dídi,” “Hard Truths,...

Anora, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys and Wicked are among the feature film screenplay nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards, which revealed its nominees Wednesday to honor the year’s best in film, TV, new media, news, radio and promotional writing.

Winners will be announced February 15 during concurrent ceremonies in New York at the Edison Ballroom and Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Today’s nomination comes after the WGA delayed its announcements from last week due to the impact of the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles last week. Several groups delayed their noms announcements in order to extend voting deadlines including the Oscars.

Last year’s WGA Awards saw The Holdovers and American Fiction win the top film awards at the strike-delayed ceremony, which came after the Oscars were handed out and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay.

Here’s...

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has unveiled its nominees for the 2025 WGA Awards, highlighting a mix of familiar Oscar frontrunners, unexpected entries, and the creative reshuffling prompted by ineligible contenders.

Sean Baker’s critically acclaimed “Anora” is leading the original screenplay list, which many consider the Oscar frontrunner in this category. Another strong contender is Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” a personal, semi-autobiographical drama that has been a critical favorite this season.

The inclusion of Justin Kuritzkes’ “Challengers” — a romantic sports drama starring Zendaya — is significant. After its high-profile shutout at the BAFTA Awards, this nomination could rejuvenate its awards season momentum. Adding variety to the category is Alex Garland’s bold post-apocalyptic thriller, “Civil War,” and Megan Park’s sweet yet irreverent comedy, “My Old Ass.” Park, who won praise for her directorial debut “The Fallout,” is also a DGA nominee for first-time director.

The adapted screenplay...

“Anora,” “A Real Pain,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Wicked” and “Nickel Boys” are among the films that have been nominated by the Writers Guild of America in the feature film category, the WGA West and WGA East announced on Wednesday.

In the Original Screenplay category, “Anora” and “A Real Pain” were nominated alongside “Challengers,” “Civil War” and “My Old Ass.” In Adapted Screenplay, “A Complete Unknown,” “Nickel Boys” and “Wicked” will be up against “Dune: Part Two” and “Hit Man.”

Eligibility for the Writers Guild Awards is restricted to screenplays that were written under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under related agreements from affiliated international guilds. That rule made many of the year’s likeliest Oscar nominees ineligible for Writers Guild nominations, including the original scripts “The Brutalist,” “The Substance,” “Hard Truths,” “September 5” and “All We Imagine as Light,” as well as the adaptations “Conclave,” “Sing Sing,”“Emilia Pérez” and “I’m Still Here.

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards nominations have finally been revealed.

The original screenplay nominees are A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Civil War and My Old Ass. The adapted screenplay nominees are A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys and Wicked.

Top awards contenders The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Sing Sing and The Substance were not eligible for the WGA Awards’ adapted or original screenplay nominations.

On the TV side, Fallout, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shogun and The Simpsons all lead with three nominations each, followed by two nominations apiece for The Bear, Bob’s Burgers, English Teacher and Hacks.

The guild was originally set to announce this year’s nominees on Thursday, Jan. 9, but the announcement was delayed twice amid the wildfires that have burned large areas of Los Angeles. The WGA originally set Monday as its new announcement date before again delaying the news “until further notice.” The...

Un thriller papal, un (no) biopic de Los Planetas o un slasher desde el Pov del asesino, entre el top del 2024.

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Adiós, 2024… ¡hola, 2025! Se va un año que, cinematográficamente hablando (como no podía ser de otra manera por nuestra parte), ha estado repleto de propuestas variadísimas y de lo más interesantes que han dejado huella en nuestras retinas. Claro, algunas otras no tanto, pero ese no es el foco de este artículo.

Marta Medina, Mario Hernández y Álvaro Campoy, miembros del equipo de mundoCine, escogen las que, a su juicio, han sido las mejores películas del 2024, compartiendo con vosotros sus porqués y, de paso, os cuentan dónde podéis verlas en este mismo momento (información muy útil si no habéis visto algunas de las que mencionamos).

Eso sí, antes de entrar en materia, hay un detalle importante: este ranking tiene en cuenta...

The rage virus is back. This year brings the long-awaited 28 Years Later, plunging audiences back into the horror saga that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland began over two decades ago. It’s a bonafide cinema event, and the infected have even taken over the pages of Empire – this month’s issue features a major look at what’s in store in Boyle and Garland’s comeback.

You’ll find the issue on newsstands from Thursday 16 January (order a copy online here) – but first up, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages.

28 Years Later

Start running now. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland bring Empire into the heart of their horror sequel – also speaking to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and more about evolving the infected apocalypse.

The Monkey

Last year, Osgood Perkins changed the horror game with Longlegs. In 2025, he’s going even wilder with Stephen King adaptation The Monkey – an absurdist,...

A lot of great movies, actors, and screenplays fall through the cracks during awards season as the Oscars race typically narrows to a handful of expected nominees. That's why it's fun to see what earns attention with some of the other more niche awards bodies. The Writers Guild of America...

The fact that Cillian Murphy's Jim is not returning in 28 Years Later is disappointing, but it will make the second and third films in the upcoming trilogy more exciting. Murphy played the leading role in 2002's 28 Days Later, the franchise's first movie. However, he did not return for 2007's 28 Weeks Later. This is why it was exciting when it was revealed that Murphy would return for the trilogy that will continue the long-stagnant franchise. However, it has been revealed that Murphy will not appear in the first film in the trilogy, the upcoming 28 Years Later.

28 Years Later was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, the same people who wrote and directed the original 2002 film. The story of 28 Years Later will follow a group of survivors living on an island in the United Kingdom years after the zombie outbreak began. The cast of...

Jodie Comer was frightened of her zombie co-stars in '28 Years Later'.The 'Killing Eve' actress portrays Isla in Danny Boyle's upcoming post-apocalyptic movie and spoke of her horror at acting alongside the infected undead in the picture.Speaking to Empire magazine, Jodie said: "The thing about our stunt performers playing the infected is they really don't take the speed off for you. They chase you. There were so many moments where I felt like I was actually running for my life!"Although Comer was fearful on set, she revealed that Boyle was in his element as he returned to the franchise more than two decades on from the original film '28 Days Later'.The 31-year-old star recalled: "He just said, 'I love this stuff'."I said, 'Why?' 'Because you just have to go there. You can't fake it. You have to really go there in...

’28 Years Later’ is an upcoming horror film set in a post-apocalyptic world, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It’s the third movie in the ’28 Days Later’ series, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Cillian Murphy, who also acts as an executive producer.

Unlike the previous films, this one isn’t produced by 20th Century Studios. It’s a joint project between Columbia Pictures, the British Film Institute, Decibel Films, and DNA Films. The film will be released on June 20, 2025, and was filmed on an iPhone, along with its sequel, ’28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple.’

For now, the plot is mostly under wraps, but as we approach the release of the movie we are finding out some details and some general directions of the story.

Nearly 30 years after the Rage Virus spread from a lab, some survivors live on a small island, cut...

28 Years Later gets a new image, providing a fresh look at Jodie Comer's character in the Bone Temple. Directed by Danny Boyle and coming 23 years after his original 28 Days Later, the upcoming horror film takes place nearly three decades after the Rage Virus first ravaged Britain. The 28 Years Later cast features Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes in leading roles, with a story that follows a group of survivors as they leave their secluded island community for a mission that takes them to the dangerous mainland.

As the 28 Years Later summer release date slowly approaches, Empire releases a new image from the movie of Comer's character, Isla. The image features Isla standing among the pillars of the mysterious Bone Temple, with Fiennes' character, Dr. Kelson, standing ominously behind her with a candle. Check out the new image below:

Though much about Comer's character remains shrouded in mystery,...

When Danny Boyle and Alex Garland unleashed 28 Days Later back in 2002, they also introduced something new into the horror ecosystem: the running dead. Previously, zombies in cinema had been slow, shuffling, shambling things, creeping ever-forward in the night. But the very nature of 28 Days Later’s infected – technically not zombies, but humans who have contracted a blood-spewing rage virus – saw the afflicted sprint at a terrifying pace, with heart-pounding results.

Even decades on, the cardio-prone terrors have lost none of their power – as Jodie Comer found out on the set of Boyle and Garland’s much-anticipated follow-up, 28 Years Later. “The thing about our stunt performers playing the infected is they really don’t take the speed off for you,” she tells Empire. “They chase you. There were so many moments where I felt like I was actually running for my life!” While Comer felt the fear factor, Boyle was caught...

Michael Gracey's Better Man is on track for several awards, but its chances of winning an Oscar have just been cut very drastically. The movie focuses on the life and career of Robbie Williams, who started off as a member of the pop group, Take That, and eventually rose to become one of the most acclaimed British artists of all time. The cast of Better Man depicts different friends and family members who played an important part in Williams' beginnings as a young boy, his struggles with addictions, and his eventual rise to success in the music industry.

Since its release in theaters in January 2024, Better Man has received high praise from critics for its depiction of Robbie Williams' highs and lows throughout his life, its visual effects, casting, and soundtrack. With a score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, Williams' movie is on the rise to become one of the...

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2024 was a good year for the action genre fans as this year saw the release of many brilliant films like Monkey Man and The Fall Guy. While many films like Dune Part Two had great action in them, they weren’t actually action films. We didn’t include those, so let’s find out which of the 2024 action films were the best.

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Civil War is a dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland. The 2024 film is set in a dystopian future America as civil war rages on, and it revolves around a group of journalists as they race to Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson,...

The highly awaited 28 Years Later won’t hit theaters until June, but we’re already getting hints about what’s next for the franchise. Ralph Fiennes and director Danny Boyle gave Empire some exciting details about Fiennes’ character, Dr. Kelson.

He’s not just a major player in the upcoming movie, but his role will grow even bigger in the sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which arrives in 2026 under the direction of Nia DaCosta.

Fiennes describes Dr. Kelson as a survivor with a unique take on the world: “He’s quite out-there in his views on the world. I think audiences will assume something about him and then see where it goes.”

Boyle added: “He strides forward into the second film in an enormous way, where the question of what he’s after and what he wants to do gets fully resolved.“

The story picks up nearly...

Is Steven Soderbergh preparing to join the “Star Wars” universe? Or is he just a huge fan of George Lucas and Tony Gilroy?

The filmmaker behind classics like “Ocean’s 11” and “Traffic,” as well as the upcoming supernatural horror “Presence,” released his 2024 watch list last week, as he has done for many years now, sharing it via his “Soderblog” under “Seen, Read 2024.” Included on the list are a range of films, television shows, and shorts, as well as novels, short stories, and plays, but of particular note are his multiple viewings of “Star Wars” films across the year, seemingly sparked by his watching the Disney+ “Rogue One” spin-off series “Andor” from Tony Gilroy. Soderbergh and Gilroy are longtime friends and collaborators, the former having helped finance the latter’s “Michael Clayton.” They also did a commentary track together for Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” that’s really worth a listen.

Over two decades after the release of the genre-defining zombie film 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are returning to the realm of horror with the long-awaited 28 Years Later. Essentially helping to jump-start the zombie craze of the 2000s, 28 Days Later follows an average bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) who awakens from a month-long coma to find all of London has been besieged by a zombie rage virus. Eschewing the tropes of earlier zombie media, the walkers of 28 Days Later were faster, meaner, and more frightening than their predecessors.

Though Garland and Boyle were only involved peripherally, a sequel was released in 2007 entitled 28 Weeks Later which continued the post-apocalyptic story and was well-received. Meanwhile, the 28 Days Later franchise helped to bring the zombie film back into vogue, and is directly responsible for movies like the Dawn of the Dead remake, spoofs like Shaun of the Dead,...

28 Years Later 3's filming start window and director Danny Boyle's involvement has been revealed ahead of the new trilogy's launch. Written by Alex Garland and directed by Boyle, who were both behind the original 28 Days Later from 2002, the upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film follows an all-new group of survivors living on a small island community in the UK. Their story will be told across an entire trilogy, continuing in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta, which has already been shot.

Now, according to Empire, Boyle will be back to direct the third 28 Years Later. However, filming won't begin until after he's seen the responses to the first one.

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28 Years Later

28 Years Later follows a group of survivors living on an isolated island nearly three decades after the rage virus outbreak.

As studios, production houses, and agents return from the holidays and burn off the last energy of this ceaseless, shameless awards season, numerous projects are finding lifeblood. Case in point: at Wednesday’s New York Film Critics Circle dinner I had a brief exchange with Annie Baker, who was present to accept their Best First Film honor and casually mentioned a new project that’s set up at A24, who’d shepherded Janet Planet to such success. She was tight-lipped on further details (like I could help asking), but a couple inquiries confirmed casting is in motion; likely shooting commences before long.

Equally terse, likewise exciting is notice (via The New Yorker) that Lee Chang-dong has been writing his first film since 2018’s Burning with ambitions to shoot this year. That’s about the furthest we’re getting right now, but patience isn’t even necessary: with his earliest films...

Last May, news broke that Cillian Murphy would return as zombie apocalypse survivor Jim in Danny Boyle‘s upcoming horror film “28 Years Later.” But now it appears that’s not the case.

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Empire reports that, in fact, no, Murphy won’t be back for the new trilogy; at least, not yet. For now, the actor remains only a behind-the-scenes presence on Boyle and Alex Garland‘s new films.

Continue reading ’28 Years Later’: No, Cillian Murphy Isn’t In Danny Boyle’s Upcoming Film, But He May Show Up Later In The Trilogy at The Playlist.

When the first trailer for 28 Years Later was unleashed, it's fair to say almost everyone convinced themselves into believing they'd spotted Cillian Murphy as one of the rage-infected zombies.

That was later debunked, of course, but will we see Murphy's Jim in Danny Boyle's long-awaited follow-up to 28 Days Later and - the slightly less well-received - 28 Weeks Later? Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this movie is going to mark an on-screen reunion for the actor and filmmaker.

Producer Andrew Macdonald tells Empire Online (via FearHQ.com), "[On] this, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved. He is not in the first film, but I’m hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line."

"He’s involved at the moment as an executive producer," Macdonald adds, "and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy.

When the first trailer for 28 Years Later was unleashed, it's fair to say almost everyone convinced themselves into believing they'd spotted Cillian Murphy as one of the rage-infected zombies.

That was later debunked, of course, but will we see Murphy's Jim in Danny Boyle's long-awaited follow-up to 28 Days Later and - the slightly less well-received - 28 Weeks Later? Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this movie is going to mark an on-screen reunion for the actor and filmmaker.

Producer Andrew Macdonald tells Empire Online (via FearHQ.com), "[On] this, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved. He is not in the first film, but I’m hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line."

"He’s involved at the moment as an executive producer," Macdonald adds, "and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy.

With 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are preparing to take audiences further into the post-rage-virus apocalypse than ever before. In their original 28 Days Later, the societal collapse had only really just begun. But decades on, there are scattered survivors finding a way to live in the ruins of what came before – not just the Holy Island community that plays home to Aaron-Taylor Johnson’s Jamie, Jodie Comer’s Isla, and their son Spike (Alfie Williams), but other mysterious figures. Take, for instance, Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson – a physically imposing figure who’ll play a part both in this year’s 28 Years Later, and Nia DaCosta’s already-shot follow-up, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, expected to arrive in 2026.

With his stark appearance, bloodied visage and proximity to that towering structure of skulls (as seen in our exclusive image above), place your bets now on whether Kelson will be friend or foe.

After skipping the second film in the upcoming series, Danny Boyle will be directing the end of the new 28 Years Later trilogy.

Danny Boyle began the 28 Days Later series in 2002 before handing over stewardship of the British zombie horror series to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo for 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. As we’ve known for some time now, things are set to follow a similar path this time around, as Boyle resurrects the series with this year’s highly-anticipated 28 Years Later.

That film is arriving this summer and is set to be followed in January of 2026 with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. However, Boyle is once again stepping away for the sequel with Candyman director, Nia DaCosta coming in to direct the sequel. Both instalments have been written by Alex Garland, the wordsmith behind all of the 28 films.

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

Although the Oscar winner is involved in the upcoming threequel as an executive producer, 28 Years Later producer Andrew Macdonald recently explained that Murphy “wanted to be involved” but won’t appear in the film, which premieres June 20.

“[On] this, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved,” he told Empire. “He is not in the first film, but I’m hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line.”

Macdonald noted, “He’s involved at the moment as an executive producer, and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy.”

Following 28 Years Later, which reunites original director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, the Nia DaCosta-helmed follow-up 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple...

When last we checked in on Cillian Murphy's return to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's rage-virus-fueled franchise, we were debunking the fan theory that the 2024 Academy Award winner had signed on to appear as a zombie in "28 Years Later." Yes, the emaciated figure rising out of a field in the film's first trailer bore a slight resemblance to the actor, but this undead character is actually portrayed by the strikingly gaunt performer Angus Neill.

This knocked fans of the movies back to square one with their harmlessly wild speculation as to how Murphy would reappear as Jim in the long-awaited third installment in the series -- the first since 2007's "28 Weeks Later." For some, this came as a relief; while it might be momentarily amusing to write Murphy out of the universe as a zombie, surely Jim deserves better. After all, we experienced the horror...