By Lindsey Bahr | Related Press
“Parasite” filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s unique science fiction movie “Mickey 17” opened in first place on the North American field workplace charts. Based on studio estimates Sunday, the Robert Pattinson-led movie earned $19.1 million in its first weekend in theaters, which was sufficient to dethrone “Captain America: Brave New World” after a three-week reign.
Abroad, “Mickey 17” has already made $34.2 million, bringing its worldwide complete to $53.3 million. However profitability for the movie is a great distance off: It price a reported $118 million to provide, which doesn’t account for thousands and thousands spent on advertising and promotion.
Per week following the Oscars, the place “Anora” filmmakerSean Baker made an impassioned speech in regards to the significance of the theatrical expertise – for filmmakers to maintain making films for the massive screens, for distributors to deal with theatrical releases and for audiences to maintain going – “Mickey 17” is maybe the right illustration of this second within the enterprise, or a minimum of an attention-grabbing case examine. It’s an unique movie from an Oscar-winning director led by a giant star that was afforded a blockbuster finances and given a strong theatrical launch by Warner Bros., one of many few main studios remaining. However regardless of all of that, and critiques that have been principally constructive (79% on RottenTomatoes), audiences didn’t deal with it as an occasion film, and it might finally battle to interrupt even.
Initially set for launch in March 2024, Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Parasite” confronted a number of delays, which he has attributed to extenuating circumstances across the Hollywood strikes. Based mostly on the novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, Pattinson performs an expendable worker who dies on missions and is reprinted time and time once more. Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo additionally star.
It opened in 3,807 areas domestically, performing finest in New York and Los Angeles. Premium massive format showings, together with IMAX screens, additionally accounted for practically half of its opening weekend. Internationally, it did particularly properly in Korea, the place it made an estimated $14.6 million.
Jeff Goldstein, who heads home distribution for Warner Bros., stated, “47% of the audience saw it in premium format, which shows that there’s a big interest from cinema fans to see the movie.”
“Director Bong is one of the few marquee directors out there along with Denis Villeneuve, Quentin Tarantino and Chris Nolan whose fans really drive moviegoing,” he added.
“Mickey 17″ also has several weeks free of big competition; The studio is looking at the long game.
Second place went to “Captain America: Brave New World,” which added $8.5 million from 3,480 areas in North America and $9.2 million internationally. Its world complete presently rests at $370.8 million. The Walt Disney Studios is on observe to turn out to be the primary studio to cross $1 billion in 2025 someday this week.
Holdovers “Last Breath,” “The Monkey” and “Paddington in Peru” rounded out the highest 5. The weekend additionally had a number of different newcomers in “In the Lost Lands,” a fantasy movie from Paul W.S. Anderson starring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista, and Angel Studios’ “Rule Breakers,” about Afghani ladies on a robotics staff.
Neon upped the theater rely for “Anora” to almost 2,000 screens after it received 5 Oscars on Sunday, together with finest image, finest director and finest actress. It earned an estimated $1.9 million (up 595% from final weekend), bringing its complete grosses to $18.4 million.
Based on information from Comscore, the 2025 field workplace as a complete is up 1% from the place it was final 12 months as of this weekend and down 34.2% from the final pre-pandemic field workplace 12 months of 2019.
“That is the rollercoaster that is the box office,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “You have two or three down weeks, it can profoundly impact the bottom line and the percentage advantage. But it will come back again.”
Estimated ticket gross sales for Friday by Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in line with Comscore. Ultimate home figures will likely be launched Monday.
1. “Mickey 17,” $19.1 million.
2. “Captain America: Brave New World,” $8.5 million.
3. “Last Breath,” $4.2 million.
4. “The Monkey,” $3.9 million.
5. “Paddington in Peru,” $3.9 million.
6. “Dog Man,” $3.5 million.
7. “Anora,” $1.9 million.
8. “Mufasa: The Lion King,” $1.7 million.
9. “Rule Breakers,” $1.6 million.
10. “In the Lost Land,” $1 million.
Initially Printed: March 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM PDT
