The monster movie renaissance continues with today's exciting news that Universal Pictures is bringing The Mummy Returns back to theaters for its 25th ann1iversary.
Stephen Sommers’ action-adventure horror-fantasy sequel to the 1999 Oscar-nominated blockbuster hit The Mummy will return to screens nationwide on March 27, with tickets now on sale right here.
Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, who will be returning for Radio Silence's new installment in The Mummy series in 2028, The Mummy Returns is 10 years after the events of the first film, picking up in 1933 with the swashbuckling heroes now married and living in London. Parents to eight-year-old Alex (Freddie Boath), the couple brings the boy along to their Egyptian expeditions, where they inadvertently uncover a rare artifact, the Bracelet of Anubis. The piece once belonged to a fearsome warrior known as the Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson in his feature film debut) and can be used to command his army of jackal-like fighters.
Upon release on May 4, 2001, The Mummy Returns collected upwards of $68.1 million in its opening weekend at the North American box office. It went on to bring in $435 million worldwide, ranking as the seventh highest-grossing film of that year.
It's evidently a good time to be a mummy fan, as we've also got Lee Cronin's The Mummy – a totally unrelated, much more horror-focussed take on the classic undead tale – to come later this year. Find out everything we know about that right here.
Check out the official The Mummy Returns re-release poster and trailer from Universal below, and for more monster movie goodness, here's everything we know about Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, coming next month.
