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May 8th, 2001
Tomb Of Records
...and the summer movie season is off! No surprise that
this past weekend The Mummy Returns took the top
spot, considering how much audiences loved the first remake
and the hype Universal put into it. The final estimated
gross was at a whopping 68.1 million, two million below what
so many originally thought, but still highly respectable. I
never thought it'd make that amount in a single weekend, but
in either case, it smashed some records. It's now the second
biggest weekend opening off all time, beating out "Star Wars
Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace" (which had nearly 65
million) but a little behind 1997's
The Lost
World. Still, it ranks as the highest non-holiday
weekend opener... "The Mummy 3", anyone?
In a real distant second, Driven drove off with
six million while Bridget Jones's Diary kept steady
at three with 5.7. Spy Kids was next with 3.8, while
Along Came A Spider ranked in 3.7. Crocodile
Dundee In Los Angeles made 3.1, followed by Blow
with 2.4, Joe Dirt with 1.5, The Foresaken
with 1.4 million and finally, the giant bomb Town
& Country with 1.3.
Again, an impressive weekend. It looks like "The Mummy
Returns" will be another giant hit for Universal, but it
faces competition next week with A Knight's Tale, and
in the weeks coming Shrek and the giant Pearl
Harbor.
- Zach B.
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