Overview
- The R-rated reboot is now in wide release and opened to about $13.5 million in North America and roughly $34 million worldwide on a reported $22 million production budget.
- Critics are lukewarm with Rotten Tomatoes scores in the mid‑40s, while audience measures land much higher, pointing to a divide between reviewers and genre fans.
- Director Lee Cronin said a follow-up would hinge on audience demand, noting that he loves the characters and has seeded a larger lore he could explore.
- Cronin confirmed a small canonical link to his Evil Dead Rise through an in‑film surname nod, a wink that fuels shared‑universe chatter without changing this film’s standalone story.
- Studios leaned on a director‑named title and even clarified Brendan Fraser’s absence to distinguish this gory, possession‑driven reimagining from past adventure‑style Mummy films.