00:00After a historic opening for Wonder Woman, which grossed a winning $103.3 million in its domestic box office debut over the weekend,
00:14it's looking like we're heading toward a new box office showdown.
00:17The verdict so far? Tom Cruise's The Mummy is probably going to get lassoed by Wonder Woman.
00:23Last month, early tracking for Universal's The Mummy suggested the summer event film would debut at $40 million or so
00:28when opening in North American theaters this weekend.
00:31A somewhat slow start for the first title in the studio's planned stable of films, built around its iconic monster characters.
00:38Now, the forecast for the reboot, at least domestically, has only gotten scarier from there.
00:43NRG, one of the industry's most respected polling services, downgraded its projection to $38 million last week,
00:49only to go even lower to $35 million on Monday.
00:52Such surveys can certainly be unreliable, but if NRG is correct, The Mummy will lose this weekend's domestic box office race to hold over Wonder Woman.
01:01You just may get gadoted, Cruise!
01:03I've been using Wonder Woman lead actress Gal Gadot's name as a verb lately.
01:06Gadot what I'm saying?
01:07Alright.
01:08Universal insiders say The Mummy will be fine, thanks to the international box office, where Tom Cruise remains a huge draw.
01:16So I guess we can say overseas success for Tom Cruise is no risky business?
01:20Just take those old records
01:24Okay, I forced that in here, and clearly I am no Tom Cruise.
01:27Anyway, if his star status holds overseas, The Mummy should win the weekend at the foreign box office.
01:33It wouldn't be the first 2017 summer tentpole to see most of its treasure come from outside the U.S.
01:38Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell No Tales, has crossed the $500 million mark globally in under two weeks,
01:45thanks to a foreign haul of $393 million through Sunday.
01:49As for the U.S. of A, box office analyst Jeff Bach says,
01:53The Mummy arrives with the feel of another reboot, something audiences, especially in North America, have become all too familiar with.
02:01Bach and others predict that Wonder Woman could drop as little as 50% from its domestic debut this past weekend,
02:06meaning it could take in $50 million plus for Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment.
02:10Remember, that would still be enough to beat out The Mummy, according to that NRG projection of $35 million.
02:1550% is more than $35 million, we're doing some math here.
02:18Okay, what do you guys think will happen, and what are you planning to see this weekend?
02:22The Mummy or Wonder Woman?
02:24Let me know in the comments, guys, and also don't forget to check back to THR.com for more box office updates.
02:30For The Howlard Reporter News, I'm Tom Cruise.
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