LAIA COSTA STARS IN LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY
Laia Costa will also star in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the Atomic Monster/Blumhouse production for New Line that just started shooting in Ireland. Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner is also producing. Costa joins Jack Reynor, who was recently announced, in the film.
The film, which is still keeping its logline under wraps, is written and directed by Cronin, and marks the first collaboration for the recently combined companies, helmed by James Wan and Jason Blum, with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group. The film will be released on April 17, 2026.
Laia Costa starred in the critically-acclaimed, single-take film, Victoria, for which she won the LOLA (Germany’s equivalent of the Oscar®) for “Best Actress” and was nominated for a European Film Award for “Best European Actress” and the prestigious BAFTA EE Rising Star Award. Film credits include Only You with Josh O’Connor, Newness with Nicholas Hoult, Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter, Nicolas Pesce’s Piercing, and Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself. Currently starring in Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, additional TV credits include Devils for Sky Atlantic, AMC’s Soulmates and HBO Spain’s limited series Foodie Love from creator Isabel Coixet. Costa won the Goya Award for “Best Lead Actress” for Lullaby (aka Cinco Lobitos), which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She was nominated the following year for another Goya Award for “Best Lead Actress” for Un Amor.
Costa is represented by Gersh, Anonymous Content and Hamilton Hodell.
Lee Cronin first garnered attention with his debut feature film, The Hole in the Ground, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 to critical acclaim. His sophomore feature, Evil Dead Rise, was theatrically released through New Line Cinema in April 2023. The movie made a significant impact, debuting at SXSW and grossing $147 million worldwide, showcasing Cronin’s talent for creating intense and captivating horror films.
Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the film. James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville are producers on the film. Michael Clear and Judson Scott are executive producers. Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the project for Atomic Monster.
About Atomic Monster
Visionary director James Wan, one of the most successful horror directors of all time, exploded on the scene with his 2004 debut Saw. The film re-energized the genre and earned more than $100 million at the box office, inspiring ten subsequent films. After then directing the worldwide hits Insidious (2010), and The Conjuring (2013), Wan launched his production company Atomic Monster in 2014.Atomic Monster has consistently made some of the most popular and memorable horror films of our time. With Wan at the helm, the company is home to the two billion dollar Conjuring Universe – a cinematic playground which includes three Conjuring films and thriving spinoff franchises Annabelle and The Nun – and the instant global hit M3GAN. In addition, the company produced Osgood Perkins’ recent film The Monkey as well as Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot and Warner Bros’ Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the sequel to Wan’s billion-dollar Aquaman. Upcoming films include M3GAN 2.0, the next chapter in The Conjuring universe, Mortal Kombat 2 and SOULM8TE, a new film set in the M3GAN universe directed by Kate Dolan.
In television, Atomic Monster has executive produced several series across genres including MacGyver, Swamp Thing, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Archive 81, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, and Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles. Upcoming series include an untitled espionage thriller starring Simu Liu from writer Thomas Brandon, who serves as co-showrunner with Jennifer Yale for Peacock, and the Prime Video series Obsession.
In 2024, the company merged with Blumhouse, bringing together two powerhouse independent production companies into one home for horror.
