This gives it a $174 million total opening weekend, the biggest ever for a Tom Cruise film.
Having already bet heavily on the Dark Universe, Universal executives might be concerned about the franchise’s potential to hemorrhage cash from the studio.
The report further pointed out that the latest spin on the Mummy failed to outperform any of the preceding ones starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
Tom Cruise stars in the action-horror reboot, which has been the subject of widespread critical disdain (the movie maintains a rotten score of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes).