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Posted on 06/12/2017 9:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Warner Bros. superhero tentpole Wonder Woman held on to the top spot at the box office while Universal’s Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy reboot failed to unwrap big gains domestically as Hollywood’s bleak summer continued this weekend. Wonder Woman — starring Gal Gadot as the Amazonian princess-turned World War I peacekeeper — raked in $16 million Friday for an estimated $57.2 million weekend total in its second week of release, according to Box Office Mojo. The well-reviewed Patty Jenkins-directed film, with a 93 percent “fresh” rating on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, fell just 45 percent in its second weekend for a ten-day domestic total of $205 million. The film has fared even better overseas, with its international tally standing at $435 million.
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I think that he is also contending with the fact that he is 54 years old trying to play a character that is 35 years old....he has aged out of the parts he is famous for playing and has to rethink the movies and parts that he takes...
cant stand tom cruise anymore
What hollywood reallllly needs to do is make yet another Tarzan movie, i mean it’s already been a couple of years since the last one flopped.
“Tom Cruise is now box-office poison because of his nutty religion.”
Yep. I won’t see anything he is in.
TSK!
You forgot Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy!
Wonder Woman and Charlie’s Angels. Good times, good times.
Tom Cruise is the new Dick Clark.
I really liked him in Edge of Tomorrow. Don't know how that did financially....
Comic book movies, for the most part, continue to satisfy the American intellect. I showed one to my 95 year old mother who asked me to turn it off afer 10 minutes.
Does he still lecture people about taking vitamins to combat post partum depression and other ills???
And it proves that Warner Brothers missed a huge opportunity back in the early 1990's when they could have turned the well-liked "reboot" of the Wonder Woman character in the comic books that George Pérez did from 1987 to 1991 into a great movie and possible sequels.
I disagree that Scientology is the reason “The Mummy” is bombing. Most moviegoers have known for a long time that Tom is a Scientology nut, and that hasn’t hurt him overall. But if he picks the wrong movie to be in, he can’t save it. This “Mummy” remake sounds like a just an excuse to showcase too much CGI, and it got very bad reviews.
Maybe I read the Brietbart item incorrectly. Beauty and the Beast was a monster hit this year. So was Fate of the Furious. $1.2B each.
In its second week, Wonder Woman looks like it will fall short of $1B.
PS I thought WW was great.
The cgi on the mummy fx, or on tom cruises face?
I thought Cruise said he regretted doing Top Gun. So is this sequel going to be his penance to his Libmasters in Hollywood?
That wasn’t a remake, it was a sequel/parody of the original films.
I think its because Universal sucks at remaking their own movies this decade. Instead of focusing on making ONE good stand alone movie, they throw a dozen different things against the wall and hope one of them sticks. The result is this:
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