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‘Wonder Woman’ buries ‘The Mummy’ at box office

JAKE COYLE Paul Dergarabedian, senior
AP Film Writer media analyst for com-
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Score, said “The Mummy”
Cruise was no match for opening showed the chal-
Wonder Woman. lenge of launching a fran-
Warner Bros.’ “Wonder chise with North American
Woman” wrapped up audiences, who are more
Cruise’s “The Mummy” at deterred by bad reviews.
the weekend box office, “The Dark Universe has to
pulling in an estimated start somewhere,” said
$57.2 million in North Ameri- Dergarabedian. “It’s worth
can theaters, according to pursuing because the cre-
studio estimates Sunday. ative possibilities are end-
Universal’s “The Mummy” less. Lessons are learned
looked its age, selling a rel- from every movie. I don’t
atively feeble $32.2 million think this debut in North
in tickets in its debut week- America should deter them
end. from moving forward.”
That couldn’t compete Writer-director Trey Edward
with “Wonder Woman” in Shults’ “It Comes at Night”
its second weekend. The aimed for more discerning
Gal Gadot superhero film, horror fans. His thriller, one
directed by Patty Jenkins, of the widest openings yet
has quickly earned $205 This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Gal Gadot in a scene from “Wonder for “Moonlight” distributor
million domestically in two Woman.” A24, sold a modest $6 mil-
weeks. Associated Press lion in tickets. That was less
The poor North American agreed, giving “The Mum- looking forward to any dominant and never-end- than most analysts expect-
opening for “The Mummy,” my” a B-minus CinemaS- number of the ones in the ing “Fast and the Furious” ed for the well-reviewed
which cost an estimated core. group. I don’t think one movies. The success of film, starring Joel Edgerton.
$125 million to produce, Universal distribution ex- can look at any one film “Wonder Woman” — now But “It Comes at Night”
meant a weak start for Uni- ecutives trumpeted the that has an influence on with $435 million globally — also only cost $5 million to
versal’s ballyhooed “Dark film’s international perfor- the ten that we could pos- also points to a studio (War- make.
Universe.” mance while acknowledg- sibly do.” ner Bros.) pivoting after a The box-office reign of
“The Mummy” is intended ing the North American Universal has grown enor- poor response to previous “Wonder Woman” is all but
to launch a new, Marvel- gross left something to be mous franchises from hum- DC Comics releases (“Sui- certain to end next week-
style connected franchise desired. But should there ble beginnings before, cide Squad,” ‘’Batman v. end when Pixar’s “Cars 3”
that resurrects many of the be any doubt, it’s still full- most notably with the now Superman”). opens.q
famous monster characters steam ahead for the Dark
— including Frankenstein, Universe. Johnny Depp is
Dracula and The Invisible already signed up to play
Man —from the studio’s the Invisible Man, as is Ja-
vaults. vier Bardem to play Fran-
Universal could still point to kenstein’s Monster. “Beauty
strong ticket sales interna- and the Beast” director
tionally, where “The Mum- Bill Condon is set to helm
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