• Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hits digital platforms on May 19, 2026, with 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD to follow July 14.
• The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, and Veronica Falcón and runs 134–136 minutes.
• Made for $22 million, it has grossed over $86 million worldwide despite a divisive 47% Rotten Tomatoes score.
• The home release includes deleted scenes, a director’s commentary, and behind-the-scenes featurettes.
• This New Line Cinema project is unrelated to Universal’s classic Mummy property or the upcoming Brendan Fraser sequel.

If you missed Lee Cronin’s The Mummy in theaters — or just want to revisit it from your couch — the wait is almost over. The horror reimagining from the Evil Dead Rise director is set to land on digital platforms on May 19, 2026, with a physical media release following on July 14.

Bloody Disgusting first broke the news, and it’s a welcome one for horror fans who’ve been eager to get the film at home. Starting May 19, The Mummy will be available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and other participating digital platforms. The July 14 physical release will cover 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD.

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What You Get With the Home Release

The digital and physical editions come loaded with bonus content. There’s a behind-the-scenes featurette — “The Making of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” — in which Cronin walks through his vision for the film’s claustrophobic atmosphere. A separate featurette digs into the film’s wild practical effects work, including the intense prosthetics used to transform actress Natalie Grace into a demon-possessed vessel. A third piece explores the Egyptian mythology and demonic rituals at the story’s core. Rounding it out: deleted scenes and a full commentary track from Cronin himself.

For a film this tactile and visually driven — blood, bugs, and practical horror effects front and center — that behind-the-scenes access should be genuinely compelling viewing.

The Movie, the Money, and the Mixed Reviews

Cronin’s film tells the story of a journalist’s daughter who vanishes into the Egyptian desert and reappears eight years later — only the family quickly realizes the girl who came back is not the same child who disappeared. She’s been possessed by something ancient and malevolent, and what should be a joyful reunion becomes, as the synopsis puts it, “a living nightmare.”

The cast includes Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (Victoria), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Veronica Falcón (Queen of the South), Hayat Kamille (Vikings: Valhalla), May Elghety (Clash), and Natalie Grace. James Wan and Jason Blum produced, with Cronin also serving as executive producer through his Doppelgängers banner.

Made on a $22 million budget, the film has pulled in over $86 million worldwide — a solid return by any measure. But critics weren’t as enthusiastic. It currently sits at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviewers pointing to an inconsistent story and a slightly bloated runtime (clocking in at over two hours, it’s one of the longest mummy movies ever made). Audiences, though, have been kinder — the Popcornmeter sits at 74% from over 1,000 user ratings, suggesting the film has found its crowd even if it didn’t fully win over the press.

It’s worth putting that in context: this is part of a broader wave of Blumhouse and Atomic Monster reimaginings of classic horror monsters. Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man in 2020 set the template and nailed it. His follow-up, Wolf Man in 2025, stumbled. Cronin’s Mummy sits somewhere in the middle — profitable, visually committed, but narratively uneven by most accounts.

No Connection to Universal’s Mummy Universe

One thing worth clarifying for fans: because this film is set up at New Line Cinema, it has absolutely nothing to do with Universal’s classic Mummy property. These are two entirely separate mummy worlds. Universal currently has three Mummy projects in various stages of development, including a prequel being written by Wes Tooke and — perhaps most excitingly for longtime fans — a fourth installment in the Brendan Fraser series, with Fraser and Rachel Weisz confirmed to return and Radio Silence (Scream) attached to direct from a script by David Coggeshall.

As for where Cronin’s film ends up on streaming, given that Warner Bros. distributed it, an HBO Max landing seems like the logical next step after the digital window closes — though no streaming date has been announced yet.

For now, May 19 is the date to mark. Deleted scenes, director’s commentary, and all the ancient demon horror you can handle — right from your living room.

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• Brendan Fraser confirmed The Mummy 4 on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, saying the original cast is “getting the band back together”
• Fraser and Rachel Weisz will both reprise their roles as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell — notable since Weisz skipped the third film
• The film is directed by Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) from a script by David Coggeshall
• Fraser teased a return to real-world locations and a tone faithful to the original adventure-driven trilogy
• The Mummy 4 is now set for October 15, 2027

Brendan Fraser is officially back in the desert — or at least, he’s working his way there. The Oscar winner confirmed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week that The Mummy 4 is happening, and that he’s already deep into the work of getting his body ready to play action hero Rick O’Connell again at 57.

“Please wish me luck,” Fraser told Fallon with a laugh. “I’m doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape.”

It’s been 27 years since Fraser first strapped on Rick’s holsters for the 1999 original, and nearly two decades since the last installment in his version of the franchise. But fans haven’t stopped asking — and he knows it.

“We’re gonna get the band back together — the only way to do it,” he said. “So we’re going to give the audience what they have been bothering all of us for the last 20-whatever years.”

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A Sequel That Almost Didn’t Happen

Fraser was candid about the long, uncertain road to getting this film made. After The Mummy Returns in 2001, the franchise went sideways — Rachel Weisz didn’t return for 2008’s Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, with Maria Bello stepping in as Evelyn. Then came Tom Cruise’s 2017 reboot, which attempted to launch Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe cinematic universe. It flopped critically and commercially, and the whole shared-universe plan was quietly shelved.

Fraser watched all of it from the sidelines. “I was hopeful for a long while, and then I was like, ‘I don’t know if they are,”‘ he told Fallon. “Other Mummy movies got made.”

In 2022, he told Variety that Cruise’s version was “too much of a straight-ahead horror movie,” adding that the franchise works best as a thrill ride rather than a straight horror film. “I know how difficult it is to pull it off,” he said at the time. “I tried to do it three times.”

Now, finally, it’s happening — and on his terms. Weisz is back. The original spirit is back. And if Fraser has anything to say about it, the locations are back too.

Real Locations, Original Energy

One of the most tantalizing details Fraser let slip — before catching himself — was about the production’s approach to filming. “What we’re gonna do is saddle back up, go back to the locations,” he said, then added: “I should probably stop talking like this, because I don’t want to give everything away.”

No official plot details have been released, but the implication is clear: this sequel is going practical, taking the cast back to real environments rather than relying on soundstages. Given that the original films drew much of their charm from their dusty, sun-baked Egyptian atmosphere, that’s exactly what fans will want to hear.

Fraser also showed Fallon a photo from a recent visit to The Mummy ride at Universal Studios — apparently part of his method prep, or at least a very on-brand warm-up. He even quipped about being warned not to wear his hat on the rollercoaster.

The film will pick up from The Mummy Returns rather than the third installment — which makes sense, given Weisz’s absence from that one. Whether it jumps forward in time from the 1930s setting or flashes back remains to be seen, but the O’Connells are coming back as a team.

The Right Directors for the Job

Behind the camera, Universal has handed the keys to Radio Silence — the directing duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who made their names with Ready or Not and the recent Scream reboots. They know how to build tension and keep audiences on the edge of their seats, but they also understand how to balance scares with crowd-pleasing fun. The script comes from David Coggeshall.

It’s a pairing that suggests Universal has learned its lesson from the Cruise reboot: The Mummy works when it’s a swashbuckling adventure with horror elements, not the other way around. The original films owed more to Indiana Jones than to the classic 1932 Boris Karloff picture, and that’s the lane this new chapter appears to be driving back into.

A Very Busy Fraser

Getting into Rick O’Connell shape is just one item on Fraser’s increasingly packed schedule. This month, he stars alongside Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Vicky Krieps, and director Andy Garcia in the crime drama Diamond, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. On May 29, he’ll be seen playing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Pressure, the true story behind the D-Day weather forecast.

He’s also just signed on to star in Starman, a sci-fi film written and directed by Josh Wakely (Beat Bugs, Motown Magic) in which Fraser plays Tom Adams, a visionary technologist leading a mission to Mars that goes dangerously wrong. David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight) is executive producing, and production begins this summer. The project is being shopped at Cannes this month.

All of this is the continuation of a remarkable second act for Fraser, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2023 for The Whale after years away from the spotlight. The comeback has been everything.

The Mummy 4 opens in theaters on October 15, 2027.

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