Nightmare fuel isn’t enough to scare away the box-office competition, as Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has ranked third on the ticket sales list in its debut weekend.
The horror reimagination of Universal Pictures’ long-running franchise notched an opening haul of S$34 million, with US$13.5 million coming from the domestic market. This puts it behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the second-placed Project Hail Mary, which now sit at US$747.5 million and US$573.1 million globally, respectively.
The film’s modest start already makes up for its US$22 million net budget, but it still has a long way to go before hitting the near US$150 million milestone of the director’s 2023 supernatural horror pic Evil Dead Rise. Starring Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (Victoria), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Natalie Grace, and Veronica Falcón (Ozark), Lee Cronin’s The Mummy follows a family who is reunited with their long-missing, mummified daughter and realises something is wrong with her. Cronin also doubles as a writer on the project, while James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville serve as producers.
Over to the galaxy, the momentum of Mario and friends has yet to slow down. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is expected to meet the US$1 billion mark worldwide after becoming the highest-grossing film of 2026 to date, with the franchise earning a combined US$2 billion thus far — and ranking No. 10 on the list of the top-grossing animated franchises of all time.
Similarly, Project Hail Mary continues to shine brightly as Amazon MGM’s biggest hit in its fifth week of release. It fell only 15 percent for a domestic total of US$20.4 million, returning to IMAX and other premium large-format screens a few days after an extended-run announcement at CinemaCon 2026. Adapted from Andy Weir’s novel of the same name, the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller-directed adventure stars La La Land‘s Ryan Gosling as an ostracised biologist-turned-high-school-teacher tapped to stop the sun from dimming and usher in another ice age.
Rounding out the top five are A24’s comedy pic The Drama, led by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and Universal’s rom-com You, Me & Tuscany. The former added US$4.8 million to its domestic haul of US$39.7 million after three weeks at the theatres, with You, Me & Tuscany collecting another US$3.8 million in its second week of release.
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