Overview
- Publishers reported on June 26 that the film will debut exclusively on HBO Max on July 3 and will air on HBO linear on July 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- Lee Cronin wrote and directed the R‑rated reimagining, which stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace and Verónica Falcón.
- The official logline describes a journalist’s daughter who vanishes into the desert and returns eight years later, turning a hoped‑for reunion into a nightmare without revealing plot twists.
- Cronin’s Mummy grossed just over $90 million worldwide on a mid‑$20 million budget, a commercial return that likely helped secure the HBO Max licensing deal.
- Produced by James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville and co‑financed by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, the film is positioned as a darker, standalone take distinct from the 1990s Brendan Fraser adventure series.