Box Office Report: Not Brendan Fraser's 'The Mummy'

I still don’t entirely know who Lee Cronin is. Yes, I know he’s directed a couple of movies before, but when a filmmaker gets their name in the title of their movie, generally speaking, audiences have heard of them. Otherwise, why include it? One wonders if moviegoers over the past weekend had a similar thought when they saw trailers for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a hard-R gory horror reboot of the franchise. That the studio had to keep tweeting that Brendan Fraser is not in this one felt like a solid signal that crowds weren’t hyped for this one.

So, even though it had no real competition in terms of other new releases, it still only made enough to debut at number three with over $13.5 million from 3,304 locations. That put it behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($35 million in its third week of release, bringing its domestic gross to $355.2 million) and Project Hail Mary ($20.45 million in its fifth week; domestic gross now at $285 million.)

Bob Odenkirk’s Normal, another entry in his action star arc, struggled. It landed at number seven with only $2.65 million. That put it one place ahead of BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ in JAPAN: LIVE VIEWING (the capslock is important, apparently), another part of the KPop icons’ comeback rollout, which grossed $1.8 million. Right behind that is Busboys, a comedy starring David Spade and Theo Von (ugh) that they self-financed (ugh?) Is a $1.65 million opening weekend good by those metrics? Eh, sure, okay.

Debuting in the tenth spot is Bhooth Bangla, a Hindi-language comedy horror, with $950,000.

Things were much busier with the indie releases this past weekend. Lorne, a documentary about Lorne Michaels, who apparently doesn’t receive enough lavish praise in his life, earned $270,000 from 414 locations; Mile End Kicks, a romcom starring Barbie Ferreira, made $264,488; A24’s Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, began its limited opening weekend with a hyped $168,063 from five theaters; Werner Herzog’s documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Chauvet caves of Southern France, got a re-release and brought in $120,000.

The drama Fireflies at El Mozote earned $47,705; Erupcja, another of the seemingly endless Charli XCX movies we’re getting in 2026, grossed $25,610; indie drama Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) made $23,055; Ben McKenzie’s anti-crypto documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money hustled up $20,378, no NFTs needed; the celebrated indie Blue Heron grossed $16,500; and the Maori gothic horror Marama took in $6,341.

This coming week sees the wide release of Mother Mary, the action comedy Over Your Dead Body, and the musical biopic Michael.

You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.