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Another Victory For 'Wonder Woman' As 'The Mummy' Gets Buried At The Box Office

Published by Huffington Post on Mon, 12 Jun 2017


The Mummy is no match for Wonder Woman.During its first weekend in theaters, the Tom Cruise monster movie debuted at No. 2, earning a tepid $32 million in North American grosses. Wonder Woman retained the top spot, collecting an impressive $57.2 million.That Wonder Woman figure is especially noteworthy because superhero flicks tend to see steep declines ' about 60 percent ' during their second weekend in theaters, once the most faithful fanboys and -girls have already scurried to the multiplexes. The first major comic-book adaptation directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins film fell by only 45 percent, the least of any modern superhero movie.Woman has now accrued about $205 million domestically and another $230.2 from foreign markets.This weekends tallies are as much a victory for Wonder Woman as they are a defeat for the critically derided Mummy. Other recent big-screen iterations of the character '1999s The Mummy (starring Brendan Fraser), 2001s The Mummy Returns, 2002s The Scorpion King and 2008s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ' premiered to heftier sums.Universal Pictures has a lot riding on this latest reboot, as it is meant to launch the Dark Universe, an expensive franchise thats slated to span several movies. Stateside audiences were largely uninterested in the inaugural installment, putting the Dark Universe in a precarious position. That said, major studios often rely on international grosses to support tentpole releases nowadays,and this weekends $141.8 million in overseas revenue means Universal can, on some level, ignore domestic patrons ambivalence.Holdovers Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie ($12.3 million), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($10.7 million) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($6.2 million) round out the Top 5.Another winner: It Comes at Night, a low-budget horror film that trendy indie studio A24 released nationwide. The post-apocalyptic chiller collected $6 million, a decent total for a low-budget title costing $5 million.Baywatch ($4.6 million), Megan Leavey ($3.8 million), Alien: Covenant ($1.8 million) and Everything, Everything ($1.6 million) complete the Top 10. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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