ryanbrennan wrote:
THE MUMMY cost $196K according to various sources, considerably less than either DRACULA or FRANKENSTEIN.  I don't have final box office figures but Greg Mank says "THE MUMMY was a great success."  Don't know if he meant critically or financially, or both.  But to break even it would have needed $446M in ticket sales.



But reports vary, one source claiming it broke box office records, S.T. Joshi in Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopdia of Our Worst Nightmares says it was "mildly successful."  At $50K it would need $125M in ticket sales,
We're going from "K" to "M" in those figures there - something seems amiss, even by Hollywood bookkeeping standards.