The Mummy is coming to Netflix on Sunday if you live in France
The Mummy trilogy is arriving on Netflix this Sunday, in France. In America it is on Tubi. Since January it has been reported as moving to four different services, and the sequel it is meant to be setting up changed its release year five months ago without most of the internet noticing.
Search for where to watch The Mummy this week and you will be told, confidently and in English, that Brendan Fraser's trilogy lands on Netflix on 27 September.
It does. In France.
The date comes from a Paris city-listings site, which is a perfectly good source for what is arriving on Netflix in Paris. It is not a source for anything else, and the American Netflix slate for September 2026 contains no Mummy title on the 27th or any other day. In the United States, right now, the 1999 film is streaming free with ads on Tubi and is also on AMC+.
This is the fourth streaming home the trilogy has been given in nine months.
Four platforms, nine months, and every one of them reported as a move
In March 2026 Collider wrote about the trilogy's performance on HBO Max. In April, CBR reported that the films had moved to HBO Max amid the franchise revival. Earlier this month ScreenRant announced that the trilogy "officially has a free streaming home" on Tubi, and separately covered The Mummy Returns doing well on AMC+. Then the Netflix date surfaced.
None of these outlets is lying. Catalogue titles rotate through non-exclusive windows, several services can carry the same film at once, and licensing is territorial. What none of the coverage says is the part that matters: these are windows, not moves, and a headline that says a film has "officially" landed somewhere is describing a temporary arrangement that may already have lapsed by the time you read it.
There is a second reason the search results are a mess. Lee Cronin directed a completely unrelated horror film called The Mummy in 2026. A meaningful share of the "Mummy on streaming" headlines published this year are about that film.
The sequel changed years in April and the internet is still catching up
Universal dated The Mummy 4 for 19 May 2028 in February 2026. On 24 April it swapped the slot: The Mummy 4 moved up to 15 October 2027 and Miami Vice '85 took the May 2028 date. Both were Universal's own calendar dates, announced by Universal. There is no mystery and there are only two dates.
There are, however, three answers live on the internet right now. Wikipedia's film-series page has October 2027. At least one major explainer still lists 19 May 2028 and builds a paragraph around how "nearly twenty years" will have passed since Tomb of the Dragon Emperor — arithmetic that only works against the date the studio abandoned. A widely-read industry explainer still says Universal has not set a date at all.
A reader checking two of the top three results gets two different years for a film that has had one schedule change in seven months.
What is confirmed about the fourth film
- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of Radio Silence are directing.
- Brendan Fraser returns as Rick O'Connell, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn and John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan.
- Oded Fehr and Kevin J. O'Connor were confirmed to return in August 2026.
- Current release date: 15 October 2027, from Universal.
- Fraser said in May 2026 he was "doing my best" to get in shape for it, and confirmed in early September that production had passed a significant milestone.
The 1999 film's gross depends on which database you open
Box Office Mojo puts The Mummy at $417,643,286 worldwide: $157,095,368 domestic and $260,547,918 international, on an $80 million budget. It opened on 7 May 1999 to $43,369,635 from 3,210 theatres, then the biggest non-holiday May opening on record.
Wikipedia disagrees with itself. Its infobox says $422.5 million. Its body text says "over $418.1 million." Both cite the same database, which is not the one Box Office Mojo runs. That is a $5 million spread on a film that has been out for twenty-seven years and has had no theatrical re-release to complicate the count.
What is still unknown
How long the Tubi window lasts. Whether the Netflix France window extends to other territories. What the fourth film costs, what it is called beyond the numeral, and whether a 2027 October date survives contact with a studio calendar that has already moved it once.
A franchise about a body that keeps being dug up and reburied has spent nine months being dug up and reburied on four different streaming services. At some point that stops being irony and starts being the business model.