The Mummy 4 is set to revive Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy franchise, with Brendan Fraser returning for the series’ first sequel since 2008. Although the first film was a massive hit, the series ended after the release of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which was a commercial and critical disappointment. However, Fraser’s resurgance […]
Few films in recent memory have defied box office expectations quite like Obsession. Curry Barker’s supernatural horror thriller arrived in theaters this May on a budget of just $750,000, positioned as a minor curiosity in a crowded summer slate. Instead, the Focus Features release managed to increase its weekly box office haul in its second […]
Hollywood history is littered with attempts at rebooting properties that were once popular. More often than not, these attempts fall by the wayside and quickly get forgotten about, but that has especially been the case since the 2000s. A major reason why is that one movie came along in 1999 that rebooted a long-forgotten franchise […]
Universal’s The Mummy franchise turned a pulpy Egyptian adventure premise into one of the defining blockbusters of the late 1990s, with an equally acclaimed sequel repeating the feat in the early 2000s. The Mummy in 1999 and The Mummy Returns in 2001 paired Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell with Rachel Weisz’s Evelyn Carnahan against a resurrected […]
Universal Pictures built one of Hollywood’s most enduring horror brands nearly a century ago, long before “shared universe” became an industry buzzword. Starting in the early 1930s, the studio’s roster of Universal Monsters turned gothic literary villains into movie stars, including Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein, the […]
A sequel that fans have been waiting on for decades is finally coming together, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz officially returning to The Mummy franchise after decades. The one-two punch of the first two movies back in 1999 and 2001 created a major adventure-horror franchise that, despite a third movie and an entire Scorpion […]
Brendan Fraser is returning for The Mummy 4 nearly three decades after the third film, and hopefully he returns for a different legacy sequel to another ’90s classic. Although Fraser left the public eye in the late 2000s, he was one of the biggest stars of the 1990s. Fraser is the star of tons of […]
When a brand-new sequel to the 1999 cult classic movie The Mummy, The Mummy 4, was announced, fans of the original film were thrilled, but it didn’t take long for questions about the cast to begin circulating. Thus far, some thrilling casting announcements have been revealed, including the returns of fan-favorite stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel […]
Spooky season isn’t quite upon us just yet, but there is no doubt that there is one movie everyone is talking about and that’s The Mummy. Back in 2025, it was announced that a fourth film in the 1999 The Mummy franchise — you know, the one starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz — was […]