'Wonder Woman' buries 'The Mummy' at box office

‘The Mummy’ couldn’t compete with Warner Bros.’ ‘Wonder Woman’ in its second weekend.

Gal Gadot in and as ‘Wonder Woman’.

Wonder Woman wrapped up Tom Cruise’s The Mummy at the weekend box office, pulling in an estimated $57.2 million in North American theaters.

Universal’s The Mummy looked its age, selling a relatively feeble $32.2 million in tickets in its debut weekend.

That couldn’t compete with Warner Bros.’

Wonder Woman in its second weekend. The Gal Gadot superhero film has quickly earned more than $205 million domestically in two weeks.

The poor opening for

The Mummy , which cost an estimated $125 million to produce, meant a weak start for Universal’s ballyhooed Dark Universe . The Mummy is intended to launch a new connected franchise of monster movies.