The big picture
- The lean period at the box office has led to re-releases of classic films like
alien
i
the mummy
catering to nostalgic millennials. -
the mummy
(1999) grossed $417 million worldwide, cementing Brendan Fraser as a 1990s movie star, spawning sequels and a reboot. - Universal's Dark Universe was scrapped after Tom Cruise's
the mummy
failed, leading to a focus on standalone projects like
The invisible man
The box office's lean period in recent weeks, perhaps a side effect of last year's WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, has encouraged a number of re-releases of older classics. while dune i shrek 2 had solid recent runs, not to mention the ongoing re-release of all the live-action Spider-Man movies, this past weekend was re-released Ridley Scott's alien and director Stephen Sommers' the mummywhich is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Like it or not, millennials are old enough to revisit childhood favorites in theaters.
More than 1,200 across North America played it the mummythis weekend. The film was originally released in 1999 grossed just over $1 million in three daysfalling short of the $1.5 million that alien made from 1,700 theaters across the country, and the $1.4 million that the shrek 2 The reissue had spawned in its first three days a couple of weeks ago. the mummy's the cumulative global gross now stands at $417 million, with $156 million from domestic theaters. The movie served as a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters franchiseand spawned two sequels and a spin-off before being rebooted several years later.
The film was also cemented Brendan Fraser how one of the biggest movie stars of the nineties. Fraser experienced a bit of a career slump in the 2010s, before his big comeback a couple of years ago with his Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's The Whale. He reprized his role as adventurer Rick O'Connell in 2001 The mummy returns, which was an even bigger hit with $435 million in global box office revenue. He last played Rick in 2008 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperordirected by Rob Cohen. The film grossed $405 million worldwide. Sommers went on to direct big budget films such as Van Helsing i GI Joe: The Rise of Cobrabut he hasn't directed a feature film in over a decade.
|
The Mummy movies |
Global box office |
|---|---|
|
The Mummy (1999) |
417 million dollars |
|
Return of the Mummy (2001) |
435 million dollars |
|
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
405 million dollars |
Fraser's three 'mummy' films grossed a combined $1.2 billion worldwide
The Mummy franchise was rebooted in 2017with the unfortunate Tom Cruise vehicle of the same name. The film was designed to spawn a shared universe of Universal Monsters movies, but its tepid box office ($410 million worldwide) and toxic reviews brought the entire franchise down. Universal focused on standalone director-driven projects after the failure of the Dark Universe; the studio tested success with this strategy in early 2020, with The invisible man reboot Also starring Rachel Weisz, John Hannahi Arnold Vosloo, the mummy is currently playing in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
The Mummy (1999)
On an archeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy that begins wreaking havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his lost love.
