Natalie Grace in 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy.' Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures Logo text The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Project Hail Mary continue to rule the box office as new horror pic Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens in third place domestically with an estimated $12.5 million, based on Friday returns.
From Universal and Illumination, Super Mario — which will cross the $350 million mark sometime on Sunday — will top the chart in is third weekend with an estimated haul of $30 million. While the sequel is running about $60 million behind the first Super Mario, it is already the top-grossing Hollywood film of the year so far and is on the verge of jumping $700 million in worldwide ticket sales.
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The landscape will change dramatically next weekend when Michael, Sony’s Michael Jackson biopic opens, followed a week later by The Devil Wears Prada 2, which marks the official start of the summer box office.
Amazon MGM Studios’ Hail Mary continues its remarkable journey, falling only 23 percent in its fifth weekend to an estimated $18.5 million for a domestic cume of $283 million. The sleeper hit is returning to Imax and other premium large format screens this weekend, several days after and star/producer Ryan Gosling and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller showed up at CinemaCon to thank theater owners and announce that Amazon MGM is extending the film’s exclusive run in cinemas.
Produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, The Mummy is Cronin’s an R-rated reimagining of Universal’s all-audience franchise. The film has divided critics, but audience exits are solid-to-decent. Also, the pic ended up having to share Imax screens with Hail Mary.
Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace and Veronica Falcón star in the pic, which Cronin wrote and directed. The story centers on a family who has been grieving the disappearance of their daughter eight years earlier in Cairo. Suddenly, they get a call from Egyptian officials revealing she has been found after spending the past eight years in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus and has been transformed into a living mummy-like creature.
Cronin is celebrated forreviving the Evil Dead franchise with Evil Dead Rise, which grossed $147 million globally in 2023. He came on the scene with the 2019 feature The Hole in the Ground, which bowed at Sundance.
James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville produced The Mummy alongside Cronin.
New openers at the specialty box office include the Anne Hathaway-led music industry drama Mother Mary from a24, and Morgan Neville’s Lorne Michael biopic Lorne.
Mother Mary, playing in only five locations, is eyeing a promising per location average of $35,000-plus before expanding nationwide next weekend.
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