‘Wonder Woman’ buries ‘The Mummy’ at box office

This now puts the movie on course for an opening weekend of $31.5 million. Showing the strength of its performance, its mid-week numbers were also unusually high. The action-comedy now stands at $51.1 million domestically and $86.1 million worldwide and at this point it should make it to around $60 million in final domestic gross. Internationally, Wonder Woman grossed $58.1 million from 57 markets this weekend and has now earned $230.2 million (with $68.4 million coming from China).

Universal’s The Mummy did ok, but not almost as well as Wonder Woman, coming in at $32.2 million in tickets during its debut weekend.

Fox launched My Cousin Rachel, the Roger Michell-directed romantic drama starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin, on 70 screens, nabbing $523,000 for a per screen average of $7,500. Despite its strong marketing and social media campaigns, the monster movie has not impressed the audiences and critics. As a full disclosure, industry executives were estimating that The Mummy was going to fall in a lower range at the domestic box office, but it still fell short of its upfront calculations. The movie fared far better overseas with a winning $141.8-M from 63 markets, Mr. Cruise’s best global opening.

“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie“, last weekend’s runner-up, falls to #3 this weekend. This week, it also fell a little harder than most kids’ movies. With a $38 million budget and an worldwide roll-out that has yet to take flight, I can’t imagine that anyone at Fox is too anxious about where “Captain Underpants’ will eventually end up”.

Sticking in the fourth-spot is box-office stalwart Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with $10.7 million.

Hollywood has always been a commendable force at the box office but it has always stayed away from major Bollywood releases because at the end, audience here mostly went for their local films more. The film has sold a total of 2.38 million domestically as of Sunday. Foreign sales are doing great, already having collected $141.8 million, making The Mummy’s estimated total so far $174 million.

Rotten Tomatoes was blamed for “Baywatch’s” Memorial Day weekend flop, but it wasn’t enough to save two new wide releases this weekend in A24’s “It Comes At Night” and Bleecker Street’s “Megan Leavey“.