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Wonder Woman slays The Mummy at the box office

By Jamie Lovett From Comic Book

Even the undead might of The Mummy proved no match for DC’s Amazon princess. Wonder Woman remains on top of the box office for the second weekend in a row.

Wonder Woman earned $16 million from 4,165 locations on Friday. The film isexpected to earn $53 by the time the weekend is through, bringing its box office total to $200 million.

Universal Pictures’ Dark Universe is off to a rocky start. The Mummy, which isintended to be the monster movie universe’s equivalent of Iron Man orMan of Steel, brought in just $12 million from 4,035 locations on Friday, even with the star power of Tom Cruise. The film is expected to earn just over $30 million over its opening weekend.

Animated superhero movie Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie drops from second to third place in its second week at the box office. The film earned $3.5 million on Friday from 3,529 locations and is expected to bring in a total of $13 million over the weekend. The film’s total will stand at just over $44 million.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales sinks down to fourth place. The fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie earned $3 million from 3,679 locations on Friday and is expected to earn $10.5 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to over $135 million.

Rounding out the top five this week is newcomer It Comes At Night. The latest horror movie from A24 earned $2.5 million on Friday alone. That’s more than its budget of $2.4 million. The film is expected to earn $6.5 million through the weekend.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 finally slips out of the box office top five, landing at the number six spot. Baywatch also slides out to number seven, and Alien: Covenant falls to number nine.

Keep reading for a closer look at the numbers and to see how the films stack up to one another at the web link below.

For more on this story and video go to: http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/06/10/wonder-woman-the-mummy-box-office/#1

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