Overview
- Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens Friday, April 17, after early press screenings that called the film deeply unsettling.
- The new take trades adventure for a close-quarters horror story about a daughter who returns years after vanishing.
- Cronin relies on practical effects and graphic makeup work, including skin-removal imagery staged in full daylight.
- Box office tracking points to a $15 million to $20 million domestic debut, a result that could shape future monster updates.
- Studios are clarifying this film is separate from Brendan Fraser’s series, with a different Mummy 4 planned for 2028.