MAY 7, 2001

Stallone's "Driven" hammered by The Mummy

THE opening of Universal's "The Mummy Returns" over the weekend hammered receipts for Sylvester Stallone's racing movie "Driven".

THE opening of Universal's "The Mummy Returns" over the weekend hammered receipts for Sylvester Stallone's racing movie "Driven". The Mummy pulled in a record-breaking $70m in three days to claim the all-time record for a non-holiday first weekend. The outright record remains with Jurassic Park which pulled in $72m during the Memorial Day weekend of 1997.

"Driven" was left to be the best of the rest with a miserable $6.1m, which hikes its total earnings in the last 10 days to $21m. This is respectable but with a number of big new movies due to open shortly, including the much-hyped new film "Pearl Harbor", Stallone may have to make do with a only a moderate success.