Dick short story, and the conversation eased over into his next film, a reboot of the long-standing Mummy franchise for Universal Pictures. We caught up with him to chat about people's unkind reception to this reinterpretation of the original Philip K. His last film, Total Recall, is arriving on Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday, December 18th. Unless he's still busy working on one of those endlessly delayed Avatar sequels, he might just take another crack at it.īudget: $155m Worldwide gross: $440m 3.Director Len Wiseman reveals that this new take on the classic Universal monster is not tied to the Brendan Fraser franchise.ĭirector Len Wiseman is trading one remake for another. The rights to the series revert back to original creator James Cameron in 2019.

It doesn't mean the franchise is entirely dead, however. While it was the lowest-performing Terminator film at the US box office, it still managed to gross $350 million internationally, its fate only sealed by the massive costs of pre-production – the film having been stuck in development for years. Alas, it wasn't to be, with Paramount dropping its plans for a sequel following the film's underwhelming box office performance.īut quite how underwhelming Genisys proved at the box office was slightly exaggerated. Hopes were high for this reboot of the Terminator franchise, with the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger, genre favourite Emilia Clarke cast as Sarah Connor, and Matt Smith in a cameo role designed to be followed up on in future installments. Here are six other apparent box office disasters that in actual fact made a whole lot of money overseas. What this means for the fledgling Dark Universe remains to be seen, but The Mummy isn't the first blockbuster to be incorrectly written off as a flop. Ironically, it's subsequently become Cruise's largest ever international bow. While The Mummy has certainly underperformed in the US with a $32 million opening gross, ranking as one of Cruise's lowest opening weekends in his long career, it has been an entirely different story overseas - the horror reboot has grossed $174 million in just a few days. If you read any box office headlines over the weekend, you're likely to have encountered numerous proclamations about the apparent flopping of Tom Cruise's The Mummy – the first stab at Universal's 'Dark Universe' franchise, with future installments earmarked for reboots of The Invisible Man (with Johnny Depp), Frankenstein (with Javier Bardem) and the Bride of Frankenstein (potentially with Angelina Jolie).

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