Horror at the Box Office: The Mummy Stays in the Top 4
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy shuffled to a respectable second weekend, finishing in 4th place with an estimated $5.6 million. That’s a 58% decline from its opening weekend, which is pretty standard for a horror film.
The Mummy has earned $23 million domestically and $65 million worldwide so far. It carries a $22 million budget, so this is a solid success. The general rule is that a movie needs to gross at least 2.5 times its budget to have a chance to make a profit in theaters. Judging by that ratio, The Mummy has now surpassed that threshold.
It remains to be seen whether it will launch a new Mummy series, like what we had around the millennium with the Brendan Fraser movies and further back with the classic Hammer and Universal films.
I recently published a list of mummy horror movies you can stream on Tubi.
This is going to be a short post. There was nothing else going on with horror at the box office this weekend. The Mummy was the only show in town. Of course, that will change soon.
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Warner Bros was wise to release Lee Cronin’s The Mummy when they did. It hit the perfect time between other genre releases.
