Jordan Blake
The Mummy Made 79% of Its Money in Three Days. Here's What That Number Actually Means.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy made 79.1% of its current domestic gross in its opening weekend. By Wednesday — Day 6 — it had earned $17.09M total, with weekdays adding just $3.57M combined. That's the most front-loaded R-rated horror opening of recent memory, and it tells us exactly where Universal's monster reboot wave is heading next: nowhere good.
Riley Vox
The Mummy Just Proved Blumhouse Can Resurrect Anything — But Should They?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is sitting at 58% on Rotten Tomatoes — miles ahead of the 2017 Dark Universe disaster but nowhere near his own Evil Dead Rise. It's bloody, it's loud, and it can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be.