{"id":484731,"date":"2026-02-23T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484731\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:33:07","slug":"the-mummy-returns-to-theaters-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484731\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Mummy Returns’ To Theaters in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

While you wait two years for\u00a0The Mummy 4<\/a>,\u00a0Universal figures it can hold you over until then with a re-release of\u00a0The Mummy Returns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To celebrate its 25th birthday in May, the sequel is returning to theaters starting March 27<\/a> and running through at least the end of the month. Tickets are already on sale, and anyone hoping for some kind of special features like a video featuring the present day stars may be out of luck, as it seems that Universal\u2019s just treating this like a standard screening. But then again, you get to see Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the big screen again, and isn\u2019t that its own bonus? And a good salve for the Scorpion King\u2019s 2001-era CG?<\/p>\n

Like the first movie, The Mummy Returns\u00a0was a hit with audience despite its mixed critical reception. At $435 million worldwide, it stands as the highest-grossing entry of the initial Stephen Sommers trilogy, and marked the Hollywood debut of Dwayne \u201cthe Rock\u201d Johnson. Despite his aforementioned iffy CG, the studio decided to spin off Johnson\u2019s future villain Mathayus of Akkad into his own movie, which came out the following year. That also made good money for its time, spawning its own series of films<\/a> with several actors playing Mathayus in the sequels after Johnson departed.<\/p>\n

Returns\u00a0might also be the first of the Sommers Mummy\u00a0movies to get re-released, and if that\u2019s the case, it\u2019s fitting since we know Fraser and Weisz are set to come back as older versions of Rick and Evelyn O\u2019Connell. That, and the fun of these movies will be a good counter to the more depraved, potentially squeamish fun that\u2019s in\u00a0Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy<\/a>\u00a0when that hits theaters on April 17.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While you wait two years for\u00a0The Mummy 4,\u00a0Universal figures it can hold you over until then with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[45895,88,206,145264,145266],"class_list":{"0":"post-484731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-rachel-weisz","12":"tag-the-mummy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}