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.
This Week in Movies (Apr 20-27): A Michael Jackson Biopic, The Boys Go Nuclear, and The Mummy's Crash Landing
Last week CinemaCon told us what Hollywood is planning. This week, Hollywood shows what actually works — and what doesn't. Michael drops Friday, Boys S5 gets its midpoint shake-up Wednesday, and The Mummy's $13.5M debut is exactly the crash-landing skeptics predicted.
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.
The Mummy Returns to Horror, CinemaCon Takes Over, and The Boys Keep Killing — Your Week of April 14
CinemaCon is live in Vegas with every major studio showing off their biggest guns, Lee Cronin's R-rated The Mummy is already scaring the hell out of early audiences, and The Boys keeps dropping bodies in its final season. Here's everything worth watching this week.