The Gal Gadot-starrer will also make more during its second frame than did both "Suicide Squad" and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", despite those films having larger opening weekends than "Wonder Woman" ($133.7 million for "Suicide Squad" and $166 million for "Batman v Superman").
As for The Mummy, Universal's attempt to launch its Dark Universe of connected monster movies isn't quite off to the flying start the studio might have hoped for, as the film opened to $32.2 million in the States.
Fortunately, though, Cruise is about as big of an worldwide movie star as you're going to find, which helped the 2017 "Mummy" bring in more than $140 million overseas.
The Mummy is unraveling at the North American box office in a blow for Tom Cruise and Universal's new Dark Universe of interconnected monster movies. The film held a 17% review score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Sunday morning. "Kudos to the filmmakers".
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"Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie", last weekend's runner-up, falls to #3 this weekend. The Mummy was Tom Cruise's biggest box office opening of all time. "Unfortunately in the USA, the critical acclaim wasn't there to the degree that people use that as a guidepost".
While "BvS" and "Squad" had much higher opening weekends than "Wonder Woman" when they were released previous year - $166 million and $133.6 million, respectively - they both suffered a 67 percent drop-off thanks to poor critical and audience reception, with "BvS" making $51.3 million and "Squad" making $43.5 million. Cowen & Co. analyst Doug Creutz told the outlet that this summer's offerings to date have collectively fallen $300 million short of expectations, and summer 2017 could beat out the summer of 2014 to become the worst summer at the box office since at least the mid-1970s. It will likely need over $450 million worldwide to bring in a profit and it opened in basically all of its markets this weekend, so it will have to sustain that gross for a while to hit a profit margin. It's not unusual for big budget films to do two or three times more business elsewhere than domestically, but nearly five times better shows just how little interest United States audiences have in the Dark Universe. That's only a 45% drop from its opening weekend, giving the film an estimated $205 million domestically in two weekends. The Dark Universe has a Danny Elfman-composed theme and a nostalgic trailer looking back at the days of Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi.
Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 rounded out the five domestically with $6.2 million and has earned $366.4 million after seven weeks.
Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" placed fourth with an estimated 10.7 million in its third weekend. Audiences agreed, giving "The Mummy" a B-minus CinemaScore. Salma Hayek stars as a Mexican massage therapist whose auto troubles force her to attend her clients' (played by Connie Britton and David Warshofsky) dinner party, which is also attended by their wealthy friends with more elitist views.
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