A scene from "Lee Cronin's The Mummy."

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The namesake director of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy already knows who will determine whether there will be a sequel to his new horror movie.

Written and directed by Cronin (Evil Dead Rise), the film opened in theaters on Friday. In the filmmaker’s spin on The Mummy movie lore, Katie (Natalie Grace), the young daughter of an American TV journalist, Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor), and his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), disappears from the family backyard where the family is staying in Cairo.

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Eight years later, the daughter is found in wrappings in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus, badly malnourished in a catatonic state. When the couple takes Katie home, she begins to display horrifying behavior that puts her family in grave danger.

Given the success of the horror movie genre dating back to Universal Studios monster movie classics, including Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, and Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and The Mummy and their subsequent sequels, the question naturally arises of whether Cronin will want to continue on with more tales of his version of The Mummy.

Without divulging any spoilers from Cronin’s version — which was produced by Warner Bros’ subsidiary New Line Cinema — the final scene in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy neatly wraps up the writer-director’s tale at hand yet allows for room for the story to continue.

Addressing the idea of a Mummy sequel in a recent interview with Variety, Cronin said, “I’m gonna repeat the best advice I was ever given, by people that know how to make movie franchises work, which is the brilliant execs over at New Line, Rich Brener and Dave Neustadter, and they’ll always say: we let the audience decide.”

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Cronin told the trade publication that he’s “very audience focused” and is up for doing another Mummy movie if the demand is there.

“I absolutely adore the characters in this world, and we’ve dipped our toes into a much, much bigger lore. And if the audience really likes this world and this universe, then there’s no doubt there would be conversations about how we would continue to grow it,” Cronin told Variety. “And as the originator and creator of it, I’d want to be pretty involved with that.”

Cronin explained to Variety that there are “great opportunities” for a sequel “because this movie is on a timeline.”

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“It’s about a family in the here and now in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that are being affected by the choice another family made in Egypt 3000 years ago,” Cronin told Variety. “So, no pun intended, I think there is a sandpit.”

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Had A Solid Opening Weekend At The Box Office

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy earned an estimated $13.5 million in ticket sales from 3,304 North American theaters in its opening weekend for a third-place finish behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which earned $35 million and Project Hail Mary, which made $20.4.

Combined with $20.5 million in international receipts, the film earned $34 million at the worldwide box office in its opening frame.

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While a worldwide debut of $34 million isn’t exactly a blockbuster opening, Cronin’s Mummy movie, per Deadline, had a net production budget of $22 million before marketing costs. That number is obviously a pittance when compared to the costs of making The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($110 million) and Project Hail Mary ($200 million) before marketing, according to various news outlets.

In addition to Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the Bob Odenkirk action-comedy Normal also opened wide domestically this weekend. Produced by indie studio Magnolia Pictures, Normal earned an estimated $2.65 from 2,153 North American theaters.

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