Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the R-rated horror reimagining produced by Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, opened to an estimated $13 million in its debut weekend — a third-place finish that left it well behind two films already deep into their runs and exposed the ongoing difficulty Universal’s monster properties have finding an audience.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie topped the chart in its third consecutive weekend with an estimated $30 million, crossing the $350 million domestic mark sometime Sunday and closing in on $700 million worldwide. Amazon MGM’s Project Hail Mary landed second with an estimated $18.5 million in its fifth weekend, dropping just 23 percent — a remarkably resilient hold for a film that has now accumulated $283 million domestically. Ryan Gosling and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller appeared at CinemaCon this week to thank theater owners, and Amazon MGM extended the film’s exclusive theatrical window.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opened from 3,304 North American theaters, with the body-horror story centered on a family whose daughter, missing for eight years, returns home transformed by an ancient evil after spending that time inside a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus. The film earned a CinemaScore of C+, better than Blumhouse’s 2025 Wolf Man (C-) but well below the B+ that The Invisible Man posted before the pandemic.
Critics have been divided — the film currently sits at 45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus noting that strong gore and personal stakes get undermined by a padded running time. The film cost a reported $22 million net after a 30 percent Irish tax credit, meaning the opening, while modest, leaves a clearer path to profitability than Universal’s $170 million Tom Cruise-led Mummy tent-pole, which failed to launch a shared franchise in 2017.
Cronin directed Evil Dead Rise in 2023, which grossed $147 million globally and was credited with reviving that franchise after being pulled from streaming and sent to cinemas. Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Veronica Falcón star.
At the specialty box office, A24’s Mother Mary — Anne Hathaway’s fictional pop-star drama — opened in just five locations to a per-location average above $35,000, ahead of a nationwide expansion next weekend.
