The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) has met his match. Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Universal) has scored an excellent $16.5M opening day.
Hollywood.com met up with Fraser in L.A. to find out what it was like reprising the role of O’Connell in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, working with a new leading lady Maria Bello and more.
Brendan Fraser and the long-awaited return of The Mummy franchise will likely unseat mega-hit The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) this weekend.
"The Mummy Returns" set a record for video sales and rentals in its first week in retail stores, taking in $90 million, Variety reported today.
Actor Oded Fehr, who played Ardeth Bay in The Mummy films, will join the cast of the new NBC drama UC: Undercover, Variety reports.
The Mummy Returns turned out to be every bit as big of a box office surprise in Europe last weekend as it was earlier in the month when it debuted in the U.S., Screen Daily, the online site of the British trade magazine Screen International, reported Wednesday.
This is the weekend that The Mummy Returns will almost certainly become unraveled.
Moviegoers celebrated "Mummy's" Day this weekend with a record setting $70 million opening. Universal's PG-13 rated adventure sequel "The Mummy Returns" kicked off Hollywood's pre-summer season with a staggering ESTIMATED $70.11 million at 3,104 theaters ($20,615 per theater). "Mummy" accounted for about 65% of the weekend's total key films gross of $107.5 million. "Mummy" is well on its way to what looks like it could be a $200 million gross in domestic theaters. That would be about $45 million more than the first "Mummy" did domestically in 1999.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 20, 2000 -- Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have unwrapped their plans to co-star in "The Mummy 2," set to begin shooting this spring for a May 2001 release. The dynamic duo will reprise their roles as rugged hero Rick O'Connell and love interest Evelyn Carnahan. Both actors had been expected to return to action after Universal received a commitment from "Mummy" writer-director Stephen Sommers six months ago. Also returning to the fold is co-star John Hannah. Daily Variety reports that it's his first $1 million deal.Fraser's expected to receive somewhere in the $12.5 million range, up from the $5 million he collected for the first installment. The actor's most recent payday was $10 million for 20th Century Fox's update of "Bedazzled." The new story will follow the entombed terror as it resurfaces in London. The script reportedly includes a 9-y
The Mummy Returns opened in Australia with an enormous (for Australia) $3.5 million.
HOLLYWOOD, May 19, 2000 -- The price of real estate may have skyrocketed in recent years, but Hollywood studios can still buy up choice property, it seems, by merely running big ads in Variety. Case in point: Last week, Universal announced a May 11, 2001, release for "The Mummy Returns," the now-in-development sequel to last year's embalmed-monster hit. The implicit message in the full-color, two-page spread was more than "Hey, we're making another mummy movie." It was a pre-emptive strike aimed at all the other studios that are now arranging their own Summer 2001 slates. Not that studios (readily) admit to such tactics. "The real reason [for the ad] is the first 'Mummy' was such a huge success for us, and we are in production on the sequel, and there's been so much interest and anticipation about the movie that we thought we'd let everyone know the [release] dat