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The Mummy Returns(2001)

Released

2001 · FILM

The Mummy Returns

A daring archaeologist and his resourceful son must decode an ancient cursed bracelet and race against a resurrected mummy cult to stop a vengeful Scorpion King’s supernatural army from conquering Egypt.

“Adventure is reborn.”

Directed by

Greg Michael, Stephen Sommers

Written by

Stephen Sommers, Dean Clegg

Rated

MPA · PG-13

Runtime

130 min

ActionAdventureFantasy

Synopsis

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 780+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Bob DucsayShot by Adrian BiddleScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Allan CameronSound by Rick AshCostumes by John BloomfieldStunts by Steve DentVFX by Craig Barron

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$443.3M

Budget$98.0M

Worldwide gross$443.3M

break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $202.0M — 46% of worldwide · International: $241.3M (54%)

Opening weekend: $68.1M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $84.3M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,401 theaters

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Re-release box office

20261,430 theaters: $1.4M($1.4M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

Die Mumie kehrt zurückde
Le Retour de la momiefr
La mummia - Il ritornoit

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