7 hours Ago By Soumyabrata Gupta
Robert Pattinson's dystopian sci-fi comedy may be a hit at the box office, raking in $19.1 million from 3,807 theatres in the US, but trouble is far from over for the Bong Joon Ho directorial. The Warner Bros.
film cost $118 million in production and that is an amount that could take a few lifetimes for it to get at theatres. For the unversed, Mickey 17 cost another $80 million to market and needs to earn around $275 million to $300 million globally to get into the black during its big screen run, reported Variety, citing rival executives who have knowledge about similar productions. The report also revealed that internationally, Mickey 17 earned $25.
4 million across 66 territories. After its debut last weekend in South Korea, the film has grossed $34.2 million overseas, bringing its total global earnings to $53.
3 million. Notably, premium formats like Imax and Dolby made up 47 per cent of the opening weekend ticket sales. Also Read: Will Mickey 17's Creeper Mama Defeat Dune's Sandworms In Cinematic World? Bong Joon-ho Says THIS Notably, Robert Pattinson-starrer Mickey 17 is Bong Joon Ho's follow-up film to Parasite, the darkly comedic masterpiece that made history as the first non-English language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
The film, based on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, stars Robert Pattinson as an expendable worker who can be "reprinted" after each death. He is part of a human expedition to colonise the harsh, icy planet Niflheim, where he meets his demise repeatedly. Chaos ensues when one of the Mickeys is presumed dead, and a replacement duplicate attempts to take his place.
The cast also features Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. The report also added that this weekend's box office is down nearly 60 per cent compared to the same weekend last year when Dune: Part Two dominated the charts. Year-to-date revenues are 1 per cent higher than at this time in 2024, but still 34 per cent behind the same period in 2019, according to Comscore.
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