A Sequel In This Acclaimed Post-Apocalyptic Franchise Is The Top Movie On Hulu Right Now
'28 Weeks Later' is currently the most popular movie on Hulu, according to the platform's public ranking system.
The 2007 post-apocalyptic horror film is a standalone sequel to '28 Days Later,' the acclaimed 2002 movie directed by Danny Boyle, which helped revive the zombie genre (although the movies don't technically feature zombies).
'28 Weeks Later,' once again, focuses on the rage virus epidemic that plagued the population of Great Britain in the first film and its dangerous reintroduction. It stars Jeremy Renner, Idris Elba, Harold Perrineau, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton and Imogen Poots.
Renewed interest in the '28 Days Later' franchise was sparked by the recent release of the third film installment, '28 Years Later,' which hit theaters on June 20. The first film is now also available to stream on Pluto TV.
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'A Minecraft Movie' became one of the biggest movies of the year after raking in over half a billion dollars following its April 4 release. Now, it's the top film streaming on Max. Based on the 2011 video game, the family friendly flick — which stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa — follows a group of misfits who get pulled through a mysterious portal into a cubic wonderland.
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Fifty years after Steven Spielberg's underwater classic swam into theaters, 'Jaws' is back on streaming and currently trending No. 1 on Peacock. The 1975 horror blockbuster about a massive killer shark sparked audiences' collective fascination with the ocean predators. It also left behind a complicated legacy. Read HuffPost's analysis here.
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Jeff Bezos' Marries Lauren Sanchez This Week: What We Know About Venice Extravaganza
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sánchez will reportedly get hitched this week in what is expected to be an opulent and controversial ceremony hosted in Venice, Italy, though few details about the multi-day celebration are known and protests threaten to disrupt the billionaire's plans. Bezos and Sánchez will reportedly tie the knot this month. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Many details reported about the wedding are speculative, though Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro confirmed the event will take place in the floating city, telling Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera the wedding 'will have economic repercussions worth millions of euros for our city.' The wedding will be a 'multiday celebration' that will cost millions of dollars according to The Wall Street Journal, and some reports indicate celebrations could begin as soon as Tuesday. Forbes has reached out to Bezos for comment. Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts : We're launching text message alerts so you'll always know the biggest stories shaping the day's headlines. Text 'Alerts' to (201) 335-0739 or sign up here . Where Will Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sánchez's Wedding Take Place? It's unclear where exactly the wedding will take place, and CNN reported planners have secured multiple venues so plans can stay fluid in case protesters or inclement weather disrupt the celebration. The Journal reported Bezos and Sánchez may get married on a Venetian island. The geography of the small city is spread out across over 110 small islands, with the historical center taking up approximately two square miles. However, a spokesperson for Brugnaro told CNN in March the wedding will take place on Bezos' $500 million superyacht known as the Koru. The Koru is a 417-foot sailing yacht, the second-largest of its kind in the world, meaning it would need to be anchored away from Venice's Grand Canal due to its size. Conversely, 'No Space for Bezos,' a local group protesting the event, has said the wedding will take place in the historic Church of the Abbey of Misericordia, according to the BBC. TMZ reported on Monday another possible wedding venue the couple has secured is the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, a cultural center on the San Giorgio Maggiore island. Some locals in Venice, which has dealt with overtourism that has strained the city's infrastructure and services for years, have staged protests over concerns the wedding's scale will worsen some of the issues created by excessive tourist crowds. Activists have organized a 'No Space for Bezos' campaign opposing the wedding, posting banners and stickers throughout the city. Federica Toninelli, a Venetian activist with 'No Space for Bezos,' told Reuters the wedding is also a 'symbol of the exploitation of the city by outsiders.' Protesters have threatened to block access to canals and city streets in an effort to block wedding attendees from reaching party venues in the city, according to Variety. Oliviero Cassarà, a lead organizer and activist, said in a statement 'No Space for Bezos' has zero issue with Americans or people getting married in Venice, instead criticizing Bezos for his links to Trump and blasting the president's controversial trade policies. 'Bezos supported Trump economically and politically and is consequently co-responsible for this drift against us Italian and European citizens,' Cassarà said. Brugnaro has spoken out against the protesters and tried to reassure them the city is capable of handling the event, citing its hosting of the Venice Film Festival and G7 Summit. Brugnaro said he was 'ashamed of those who behave like this,' Variety reported. Protest organizers have criticized Brugnaro, insisting demonstrations will be peaceful. On Monday, the Greenpeace environmental activist organization joined 'No Space for Bezos' in Venice's St. Mark's Square, unveiling a banner with Bezos' face that read: 'IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.' Police quickly took the banner away, the Associated Press reported. Protesters also plan to block access to the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, where they believe Bezos will hold one of his wedding parties, and other unspecified protests are planned, The Guardian reported. Protesters have also installed life-size mannequins of Bezos around the city, including one in which the body is covered with dollar bills, and another that holds a bloody sign that says, 'Just Married.' How Many People Are Attending The Wedding And Who Is On The Guest List? Venice officials have said the guest list for Bezos and Sánchez's wedding is limited to 200 people. It is not known for certain who will be attending the wedding, but TMZ reported a handful of celebrities received invites including Eva Longoria, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Jewel Kilcher, noting Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, in addition to Karlie Kloss and husband Joshua Kushner also made the list. Mick Jagger, Jay-Z and Beyoncé and Gayle King may also attend, according to The New York Times. Many people on the purported list, such as Longoria and Perry, are friends with Bezos and/or Sánchez. Guests who attended Sánchez's bachelorette party in Paris in May included Jenner, Kardashian, Perry, Longoria, entrepreneur Elsa Marie Collins, philanthropist Natasha Poonawalla and Fox Sports host Charissa Thompson. TMZ reported Tony Gonzalez, a former NFL tight end and Sànchez's ex-boyfriend, with whom she has a son, will attend the wedding. When Is The Wedding? The wedding will take place from June 24 to June 26, CNN reported, citing Brugnaro's spokesperson, though some reports have claimed a June 26 to June 29 celebration. How Many Wedding Events Are Bezos And Sánchez Hosting? Bezos and Sànchez's multi-day celebration could span multiple parties, TMZ reported, citing anonymous sources who told the outlet the couple is planning three themed parties, including a pajama party. The couple was photographed on Bezos' Koru yacht on Sunday throwing a foam party, in which they and their friends were covered in foam bubbles while tossing around beach balls and swimming in the ocean. It's unclear whether the foam party was part of the wedding parties, or if it was a prelude to their wedding celebrations. Multiple reports have said the wedding will predictably cost millions of dollars. The Journal reported a luxury wedding with 200 guests such as Bezos' costs about $4 million, citing Jamie Simon, director of events at luxury planning firm Banana Split, which organized the multiday wedding between Sofia Richie Grainge and Atlantic Records CEO Elliot Grainge in 2023. Who Is Organizing The Bezos-Sánchez Wedding? The Journal reported Lanza & Baucina, a London-based group that planned George and Amal Clooney's 2014 wedding in Venice, has been hired by Bezos and Sánchez. A representative for the group told the Journal its principles and the instructions of Bezos call for the 'minimizing of any disruption to the city, the respect for its residents and institutions and the overwhelming employment of locals in the crafting of the events.' Forbes Valuation We estimate Bezos' net worth at $224 billion as of Tuesday, making him the fourth-wealthiest person in the world behind Mark Zuckerberg ($241 billion), Larry Ellison ($251 billion) and Elon Musk ($424 billion), Key Background Bezos and Sánchez met almost ten years ago and began making public appearances together around 2019, when the two began dating. They became engaged in 2023 aboard the Koru superyacht, with Bezos offering Sánchez a 30-carat cushion cut pink diamond set in platinum, according to Vanity Fair. The couple's upcoming wedding in Venice is not unprecedented, as the floating city also hosted the wedding of George and Amal Clooney in 2014, when the two tied the knot at the Venice Town Hall. The wedding had a generally positive perception, with locals lauding Clooney for his consideration and respect for Venice. Cassará even compared Bezos to Clooney in his statement, saying Bezos 'is not George Clooney with his romantic aura.' 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For Restless Sleepers Resort 2026 Collection
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The Baffling Beauty of 28 Years Later
In 28 Days Later, the walking dead don't lumber; they sprint. But when the film hit theaters in 2002, that was just one of many surprises for audiences used to the slow, mindless zombies originated by George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead series. The director Danny Boyle's postapocalyptic horror, written by his frequent collaborator Alex Garland, used low-resolution camcorders to capture the unsettling story of a man waking up to the end of society as he knew it. In the movie, humans have become victims of a 'rage virus' epidemic, turning into vicious, bloodthirsty creatures within seconds—and survival means fleeing or fighting back. 28 Days Later soon inspired a wave of similar, undead-related movies, many of which copied its moves. Asked how he and Garland had revived the zombie flick so effectively, Boyle had a simple answer. 'We took a genre,' he said in an interview in 2013, 'and fucked with it.' Boyle and Garland, returning after different filmmakers handled the sequel 28 Weeks Later, have only 'fucked with' the genre further in the long-anticipated follow-up, 28 Years Later. Even fans of the franchise should brace themselves: This time around, the zombies—called 'infected'—are more developed, the human characters odder, and the plot so dense that it's both more high-minded and exceedingly ludicrous. The film is another attempt to reinvent the zombie-movie-genre wheel wholesale, and the result is both audacious and bound to be divisive. Before the movie began, I worried whether Boyle and Garland would be able to top themselves more than two decades after 28 Days Later; by the time it ended, I was laughing at just how fantastical and wild their efforts were. Set somewhere off the coast of England, where the infected have been kept at bay by a heavily defended gate, 28 Years Later follows a 12-year-old boy named Spike (played by Alfie Williams). Spike has never known society before the rage virus left the United Kingdom quarantined from the rest of the world. He belongs to a tight-knit community of survivors, including his parents: His mother, Isla (Jodie Comer), is suffering from a mystery illness, and his father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), is eager for Spike to grow up and hunt the infected alongside him. The film opens with Jamie taking Spike to the mainland so that he can make his first kill—a rite of passage for the island's boys. There, Spike learns of Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), a former doctor who has established a camp by himself in the middle of the woods. Although Jamie warns his son of Kelson's strangeness—he builds towers of skulls, for one thing—Spike believes that Kelson can cure whatever's ailing Isla. To further describe what ensues would be to risk spoiling the delight. Yes, delight: It's thrilling to watch a new entry in a horror franchise veer completely off the rails of its chosen genre. Spike starts his journey facing off against the kinds of infected not seen in the previous 28 movies; nearly three decades of mutations have yielded fresh, stomach-churning horrors. But his trek gets weirder, and more wondrous, as it goes along. In one scene, as Spike and Jamie flee the infected, the night sky appears to swallow them whole. Several characters Spike encounters seem to have wandered out of entirely different films. Much of 28 Years Later brings to mind details from other works—there's a shady character akin to one from Station Eleven; a bloated variant of infected recalls the monsters in the anime Attack on Titan; and the circumstances of Spike's island echo those of The Village —yet the movie feels singular. Like the bony sculptures Kelson has assembled, the film is abstract and unwieldy; at the same time, it's impossible to look away from. That's in part because Boyle has once again applied a captivating digital aesthetic. Shot mostly on iPhones using a horseshoe-shaped rig, 28 Years Later evokes a fever dream crossed with an immersive video game: Tilted angles and extreme close-ups dominate scenes, as do jarring cuts and freeze-frames that lead to spectacular kill shots. Again and again, blood splatters onto the camera lens, producing gleefully gory images. It's grimy, sometimes even ugly filmmaking, but it's effectively disorienting. What's most striking about 28 Years Later, though, is how it manages to hold together its freewheeling plot and tonal shifts. The film grounds its story in Spike's desire to save his mother at any cost—including, perhaps, his own sanity in a world hostile to innocence and tenderness. 28 Years Later punctuates the end of its first act, as it did in its excellent trailer, with a chilling 1915 recording of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'Boots,' its verses about a soldier succumbing to lunacy soundtracking a montage of warfare. Spike's journey becomes unnerving because his reality is collapsing before his eyes. By the time Kelson and Spike meet, Fiennes appearing to be caked in burnt-orange makeup (Kelson has covered himself in iodine), I'd begun to wonder if I'd gone mad myself. I'm not sure if every one of the disparate beats and twists work in tandem; some images, such as that of the English flag in flames, are annoyingly on the nose. Isla is underwritten, even if Comer gives the character her all; lines such as 'the magic of the placenta' are laughable in their earnestness. But I haven't seen any comparable franchise go through a transformation such as this one. Boyle and Garland have taken a bold swing at material they created while maintaining the core appeal of the series. 28 Years Later grasps that its two predecessors have endured not only because of the intrigue conjured by fast-moving zombies and a found-footage look but also because they probe how isolation reshapes the human mind. Here, Spike is an avatar for the arrested development of an entire culture. He has no idea what the mainland looks like, what modern life entails, and what it feels like to be consumed by fear of something other than the infected—including the possibility that he can't stop his mother's suffering. The opening shot of 28 Years Later shows a group of humanoid creatures wandering a landscape; above it, instead of a sun, looms a smiling baby. It's a scene from Teletubbies, perhaps the most unnerving children's television show there ever was, and it's the perfect amuse-bouche for what the rest of the film brings. Although 28 Years Later doesn't star any toddlerlike aliens with touch-screen tummies, the movie is just as baffling, disturbing, and profoundly absorbing in its idiosyncracy. It ends on a cliffhanger, but I barely cared; the already filmed sequel set to be released in January will likely resolve it, and the final scene makes clear what Boyle and Garland have done: With 28 Days Later, they messed with a genre. With 28 Years Later, they're messing with us.
