{"id":2239099,"date":"2026-01-17T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2239099"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:52:07","slug":"28-years-later-finally-extinguishes-avatar-fire-and-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/28-years-later-finally-extinguishes-avatar-fire-and-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;28 Years Later&#8217; finally extinguishes &#8216;Avatar: Fire and Ash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2F119103624.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It was finally extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>After four weeks at No. 1, \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d was dethroned at last \u2014 with \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple\u201d jumping into first place on its opening day.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the post-apocalyptic horror, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/13\/entertainment\/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-review-ralph-fiennes-addictive-horror-sequel-is-so-messed-up\/\">The Post called<\/a>, a \u201ctwisted, more brutal and freakishly funny continuation\u201d of its predecessor, last year\u2019s \u201c28 Years Later,\u201d raked in $5.5 million, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart__;!!F0Stn7g!D1HZFOwuN6pnMwSLez2NMwbN8BtS0CdIK8S7AmLh85PuCO_Zv3gR1VbjMMyZJIEiPKF5-HhCprpY5zwMZI70pD3pUfk$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth installment of the \u201c28 Days Later\u201d franchise has Ralph Fiennes reprising his role as Dr. Ian Kelson,  and The Post praised the actor for delivering the \u201ccraziest performance of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In second place was the third installment of the Avatar franchise, with sales of $3.2 million on its fifth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jack O\u2019Connell plays a cult leader in \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,\u201d which was rereleased in theaters for its 25th anniversary, along with the other two films in the trilogy, took third, with over $3.16 in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The fantasy adventure flicks earned over $5 million in ticket pre-sales alone ahead of Friday\u2019s triple rerelease.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is the third installment in the James Cameron sci-fi franchise. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920th Century Studios\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\u201d was rereleased in theaters for its 25th anniversary. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the fourth spot was Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2,\u201d with a $1.9 million take on its eighth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d which earned its star Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u00a0a Golden Golden last Sunday, landed in fifth, with over $1.6 in earnings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was finally extinguished. After four weeks at No. 1, \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d was dethroned at last \u2014 with \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple\u201d jumping into first place on its opening day. On Friday, the post-apocalyptic horror, which The Post called, a \u201ctwisted, more brutal and freakishly funny continuation\u201d of its predecessor, last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2239100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[387045,34204,23301,21741,348389,21912,34943],"class_list":["post-2239099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-avatar","tag-box-office","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-movies","tag-timothee-chalamet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28-Years-Later-finally-extinguishes-Avatar-Fire-and-Ash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239101,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239099\/revisions\/2239101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}