Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Box Office Is Far Lower Than Past 4 Mummy Movies

The weekend box office numbers for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy are in, and the supernatural horror film is crawling toward a global total of $34 million. While a $13.5 million domestic opening is respectable for an R-rated horror release in a crowded spring market, a direct comparison to the past four films bearing the title The Mummy reveals a massive financial canyon.

The crucial distinction, however, lies in the fact that Lee Cronin’s film is not part of the Universal Pictures action-adventure franchise. It is a completely separate reimagining produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster for New Line Cinema, targeting a different audience with a different genre approach.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy box office gets a lower opening

The current worldwide total of $34,015,000, split 39.7% domestic ($13 million) and 60.3% international ($20 million), registers as a stark outlier when placed next to the box office ledgers of the previous, unrelated Mummy movies (via Box Office Mojo).

Those films, all released by Universal Pictures, were PG-13-rated action-adventure spectacles headlined by Brendan Fraser and later Tom Cruise. Their opening weekends alone often eclipsed the total production budget of Cronin’s horror outing. The 1999 The Mummy roared to life to a $417.6 million global total.

The Mummy Returns (2001) topped that with $444 million worldwide, while even the lesser-received The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) unearthed $403.4 million globally. Tom Cruise’s 2017 The Mummy reboot, intended to launch Universal’s Dark Universe, grossed $409.2 million worldwide.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy tells the story of a family whose world fractures when their long-missing daughter returns home in a mummified state. Something is clearly wrong with Katie Cannon, and whatever followed her back threatens to consume everyone she once loved. Jack Reynor stars as Charlie Cannon, a journalist and the girl’s father. Laia Costa plays Larissa, his wife struggling to reconcile the child she lost with the thing that came back.

Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net