'Wonder Woman' Will Win Another Weekend
by EG
One of Hollywood's most classic monsters looks like it will be no match for an Amazonian princess-turned-superhero at the North American box office this weekend.
If pre-release tracking is correct, Universal’s The Mummy reboot, starring Tom Cruise, might have trouble scaring up more than $35 million from 4,000 theaters, putting intense pressure on the movie's foreign performance.
In the U.S., Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman will easily stay at No. 1 in its second weekend with as much as $50 million after opening to a historic $130.3 million — the top domestic launch of all time for a female director — and whipping up strong midweek business for a $138.7 million domestic total through Wednesday.
On Thursday morning, at least one major tracking service further downgraded its forecast for The Mummy from $35 million to $33 million, whereas the same service predicted $40 million several weeks ago. One likely culprit for the latest tweak are poor reviews, which hit Wednesday. The summer event film currently sports a 22 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, tying with Losin' It (1983) to mark the worst aggregated score of Cruise's acting career behind Cocktail (5 percent).
Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.
Last week, Wonder Woman had the best debut of any feature film directed by a woman.