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Listeners buckle up and hold on to your amulets because today we’re flashing through every headline, tweet, streaming chart, and hypothetical DocuTik I could find about our favorite ambulatory linen enthusiast — The Mummy. Yes, I mean the actual dried-up icon from Universal’s vault, not just Tom Cruise after a bad Botox session.

So let’s start with what passes for breaking news in the life of a guy who’s technically been dead three thousand years: the 2017 Tom Cruise reboot of The Mummy, which was basically the cinematic equivalent of tripping over your own bandages, is somehow back from the dead itself, now a surprise streaming hit on HBO Max. According to both ScreenRant and Slash Film, it’s clawed its way into the Top 10 most-watched films in the US right now. Eight years after flopping so hard it killed Universal’s entire “Dark Universe,” apparently audiences finally want more undead, sand-blasting action — or we’ve officially run out of new things to watch as a civilization.

Meanwhile, the real star of mummy lore, Brendan Fraser’s 1999 juggernaut, is trending again on Peacock thanks to Fraser’s own Hollywood renaissance. The Direct and CBR report that armies of both nostalgia-soaked millennials and confused Zoomers have discovered (or re-discovered) the adventure classic and — hold your scarabs — they actually love it. Apparently, people just want more Fraser daring, desert drama, and less…Tom Cruise running from sandstorms.

Now for the future, because even mummies need to have a five-year plan: Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin just finished principal photography on a bold new take set to hit screens in 2026. Cronin claims, “This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyes on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.” If you’re picturing an undead Karl Lagerfeld with opinions about linen thread count, you get me.

Social media? X (the bird formerly known as Twitter) is doing what it does best: memes of Imhotep reading hate comments and TikToks of Gen Zers pretending to resurrect their exes with the Book of the Dead. #MummyVibes is trending, which I’m just happy isn’t another suburban wine mom hashtag, for once.

If you missed yesterday’s pop culture hurricane: Universal Monsters is also rolling out a Mummy-themed Halloween wine collab, so finally we can all get day-drunk and cry about Anck-su-Namun with some dignity, courtesy of 19 Crimes, as reported by Bloody Disgusting.

That’s it for The Mummy’s last few days in the spotlight — not bad for someone with questionable joints. Hit that subscribe button or risk being entombed without updates, and don’t forget to search “Biography Flash” for more, because unlike Imhotep, these biographies are guaranteed to change more than once a millennium. Thanks for listening.

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