A 2017 Tom Cruise box office bomb is climbing up the Netflix charts

The Mummy
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Universal's 2017 reboot of The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise🌼, i♈s sitting at no. 2 on the Netflix Daily Top 10.

A reboot of the Brendan Fraser-led Mummy franchise, the film stars Cruise as a US Army sergeant who unearths the tomb of an Egyptian princess named Ahmanet. The fantasy-adventure flick was directed Alex Kurtzman from a screenplay by David Koepp (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:I🌸ndiana Jones and the Dia𝄹l of Destiny), Christopher McQuarrie (Mission:♓ Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), and Dylan Kussman. Sofia Boutellಞa plays Ahmanet, a loosely reimagined version of Imhotep from the original franchise, with Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, R🍸ussell Crowe, Javier Botet, and Marwan Kenzari.

After the 2008 release of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, a fourth entry in the Fraser franchis☂e was ultimately scrapped. The concept of a reboot was developed in order to kickstart what Universal would call its 'Dark Universe,' a modern-day cinematic universe based on classic Universal Monsters. The Mummy premiered to mostly negative reviews and made $410 million against a rumored budget of $195 million, effectively canceling the Dark Universe.

"It is hard to make that movie," Fraser told , sharing his thoughts on why the movie flopped. "The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in that film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straꦕight-ahead horror movie. The Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.”  

The Mummy is streaming on Netflix now, where it threatens to nab the no. 1 spot. For more, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix movies to stream right now.

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