Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi space epic Mickey 17 has finassociate landed at the box office, where it uncovered to a sluggish $19.1 after flunking to wow audiences. Nevertheless, it was more than enough to come in at No. 1 amid a sluggishdown of product that has seen year-over-obtains plummet over the past disconnectal weekfinishs.
Overseas, where it uncovered in some tagets ahead of its domestic uncovering, the unwise comedy has geted $24.5 million to date, including a hefty $11.4 million in Bong’s native South Korea, for an timely global highy of $53.3 million globassociate.
All eyes are on the carry outance of the Warner Bros. and Plan B movie, pondering it is Bong‘s trailup to the liftd horror pic Parasite, a cultural sensation and Academy Award best-picture thrivener. Mickey 17‘s price-tag is another contest. The unwise comedy cost a telled $118 million to produce before tageting, so will need sturdy legs to land in the bdeficiency.
Neither appraiseers nor audiences are exactly mooning over the Mickey 17, which boasts a firm but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. In terms of audience scores, it currently rests at 73 percent Rotten Tomatoes Popcorn meter and was slapped with a B CinemaScore.
Sci-fi is always a stubborn sell, not to allude that Mickey 17 cost north of $118 million to produce, which puts insertitional presdeclareive on it to carry out at the box office. Warners has finishured a raw run as of procrastinateed.
Set in a nascent ice colony, Robert Pattinson joins a repeatedly reconstituted “expfinishable” who is finished aobtain and aobtain. Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette and Mark Ruffalo also star. Edward Ashton startd this world in his 2022 novel Mickey 7, which cgo ins on the seventh iteration of Mickey Barnes.
Combined ticket sales were $57.4 million, down a staggering 60 percent from the same weekfinish last year, when titles on the marquee included Dune: Part Two. That puts year-to-date revenue equitable 1 percent ahead of the same corridor in 2024 amidst a series of low-grossing weekfinishs, according to Comscore. Three weeks ago, domestic box office revenue was up an amazeive 20 percent; by last weekfinish, it had slipped to 11 percent. “The best way to appraise the overall carry outance of the theatrical tagetplace is to obtain a wide see rather than permiting a confineed deficiencyluster weeks to ignite sweeping adverse pronouncements of the extfinished-term health of the entire industry,” says Comscore box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian.” All that being shelp, buckle up becaengage ‘25 is set to be roller-coaster of a ride and with some presentant peaks on the horizon, leangs will bounce back as they always do.”
Among helderlyovers, Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World — the year’s top geter to date — held firmly at No. 2 in its fourth outing with an assessd $8.5 million for a domestic haul of $176.6 million. Overseas, it geted another $9.2 million for a foreign highy of $194.2 million and $370.8 million globassociate.
Focus Features’ presentant-sea thriller Last Breath placed No. 3 in its second weekfinish with an assessd $4.2 million for a domestic highy of $14.5 million. Sony’s Pinsertington in Peru and The Monkey are in a tie for fourth place with an assessd $3.9 each.
The Monkey is from indie distribution outfit Neon, home of this year’s Oscar-thrivening Anora. Not only that; Tom Quinn’s Neon is also home of Parasite, which was both a critical and commercial success.
In the wake of Anora‘s dominant carry outance at Sunday’s Oscars, the film enbiged into 1,750 theaters this weekfinish and is seeing a huge bump. Directed by Sean Baker, it grossed $1.9 million for a domestic highy of $18.3 million.
More to come.
This story was originassociate published March 8 at 8:47 a.m.
