Novelizations of the film and its sequels were written by Max Allan Collins. Universal Pictures also opened a roller coaster, Revenge of the Mummy, in 2004. Seven years later, the third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, opened on August 1, 2008. The box-office success led to a 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns, as well as The Mummy: The Animated Series, and the prequel/spin-off film The Scorpion King. The Mummy opened on May 7, 1999, and grossed $43 million in 3,210 theaters during its opening weekend in the United States a surprise hit, the film went on to gross $416 million worldwide. Jerry Goldsmith provided the orchestral score. Ten years after their first encounter with the mummy, Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and wife Evelyn (Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz) return to England from a dig only to have a re-resurrected. The visual effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic, who blended film and computer-generated imagery to create the titular Mummy.
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There they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a high priest from the reign of the pharaoh Seti I who has been cursed for eternity.įilming began in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 4, 1998, and lasted seventeen weeks the crew had to endure dehydration, sandstorms and snakes while filming in the Sahara. Funko made Pop figures based on the 2017 Tom Cruise The Mummy reboot that flopped at the box office, but not the 1999 Mummy movie starring Brendan Fraser that everyone loves. In this film, adventurer Rick O'Connell travels to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, with an archaeologist and her brother. It is a loose remake of the 1932 film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff in the titular role. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead. There they accidentally awaken Imhotep, The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. They range from hopeful blockbusters like "Solo: A Star Wars Story" to just plain critical and commercial disasters like "The Happytime Murders.Description: The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. We looked back at the last 10 years to gather some of the biggest summer flops. While the company drops enough hits to make up for that, it's released some absolute duds, including 2016's "Alice in Wonderland" sequel, "Alice Through the Looking Glass." In its report, Disney said it recorded a film cost impairment for the movie, which it acquired in the Fox merger that closed in March.Īnd Disney has had its fair share of misses. Disney put much of the blame on "Dark Phoenix" for any box-office shortfalls this quarter in the company's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday. Some of the biggest theatrical bombs in recent years were superhero movies, from the recent "X-Men" movie, "Dark Phoenix," to 2015's misguided "Fantastic Four" reboot. At a time when it feels like superhero and Disney movies rule the box office, it's easy to forget that plenty have also been flops.
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