In another sign that we’ve entered the twilight era of originality in the movie business, Warner Bros. “Wonder Woman” was knocked from its perch atop the weekend box office pile by Universal’s reboot of the “Mummy” franchise.
Starring Tom Cruise, Nick Morton and Annabelle Wallis, and directed by Alex Kurtzman, ‘The Mummy’ earned $141.8 million worldwide this weekend according to estimates compiled by comScore, and set the record as Tom Cruise’s biggest international opening weekend.
While ‘The Mummy’ easily made its $125 million production costs, it was a relatively slow starter in North America, where it opened in second place to just $32.4m, lagging behind ‘Wonder Woman’ which added another $57.2M, crossing the $400m cumulative mark worldwide.
Disney’s ‘Pirates Caribbean:Dead Men Tell No Tales’ kept chugging along as well, adding $45.5M worldwide for a cumulative total take of more than $600 million.
The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected by comScore as of Sunday, June 11, are below.
1. Mummy, The – Universal – $174.0M
2. Wonder Woman – Warner Bros. – $115.3M
3. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – Disney – $45.5M
4. Baywatch – Paramount Pictures – $15.3M
5. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie – 20th Century Fox – $14.0M
6. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 – Disney – $8.4M
7. It Comes At Night – A24 – $6.0M
8. Dangal – China Film Co. – $4.9M
9. How Are You – Multiple Chinese Distributors – $4.2M
10. Megan Leavey – Bleecker Street – $3.8M
11. Alien: Covenant – 20th Century Fox – $3.4M
12. Beauty And The Beast – Disney – $3.3M
The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, June 11, are below.
1. Wonder Woman – Warner Bros. – $57.2M
2. Mummy, The – Universal – $32.2M
3. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie – 20th Century Fox – $12.3M
4. Pirates Caribbean:Dead Men Tell No Tales – Disney – $10.7M
5. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 – Disney – $6.2M
6. It Comes At Night – A24 – $6.0M
7. Baywatch – Paramount – $4.6M
8. Megan Leavey – Bleecker Street – $3.8M
9. Alien: Covenant – 20th Century Fox – $1.8M
10. Everything, Everything – Warner Bros. – $1.6M
11. My Cousin Rachel – Fox Searchlight – $1.0M
12. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul – 20th Century Fox – $0.7M
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