The latest fresh take on a legendary movie monster is Lee Cronin’s The Mummy from Blumhouse and New Line, an Evil Dead-style interpretation of classic mummy mythology. How did the Evil Dead Rise filmmaker’s new horror movie fare at the box office this weekend?
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy was released in 3,304 theaters across the United States and scared up $13.5 million domestically, with the worldwide opening weekend total hitting $34 million.
Is that good? Bad? Somewhere in between? Well, this sort of thing always depends on the production budget and expectations heading into the weekend. According to the film’s Wiki page, The Mummy had a production budget of $22 million, meaning it will very likely end up being profitable by the end of its theatrical run. That said, the film’s $13.5 million domestic opening is a far cry from the 2020 opening weekend of Blumhouse and Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, another fresh take on a classic monster that debuted with $28.2 million.
On the plus side, Blumhouse and Whannell’s Wolf Man opened to $10.8 million last year, and Cronin’s The Mummy has already matched that film’s total worldwide take of $34.1 million.
The interesting thing about The Mummy is that the property has had more success at the box office than any other classic Universal Monsters character over the past several decades, largely thanks to the Brendan Fraser movies. They turned the horror property into an action-adventure franchise, a tradition the Tom Cruise-starring movie continued in 2017. That film opened to $31.6 million and ended its worldwide run with $409.2 million, a number that the upcoming fourth installment of the Brendan Fraser franchise will look to beat in a couple years.
Of course, we should note that Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is not a Universal release, and also isn’t connected to any previous iterations of the character. And no, Brendan Fraser isn’t in it.
Read our review of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy.
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