Director 's might've had a soft opening at the global box office, but it's already snuck its way onto a very important list. The darkly comedic science-fiction film is now , both domestically and worldwide. Mickey 17 debuted at the number one spot domestically, but grossed only $19 million. This could be perceived as underwhelming for a movie produced on . A recent report on Puck suggested that the movie could result in around $100 million in losses for Warner Bros.
That being said, Mickey 17 is now among the 10 biggest hits of the year. On the domestic chart, it stands at number nine, having overtaken the horror-thriller 's $20 million haul. With $24 million in the bank, Mickey 17 currently trails by around $5 million. Globally, Mickey 17 is the 10th-biggest hit of the year, trailing India's by a wide margin. The movie has made $57 million worldwide so far, but considering its $118 million production budget, it needs to gross around $250 million worldwide to break even. This would be in the same range as director Bong's , which cost only $11 million to produce.
The Puck report suggests that Bong vetoed a rival cut put together by W.B. after his version received poor test scores. Bong won the Best Director Oscar for Parasite, which also won Oscars in the Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature, and Best Picture categories. The Korean-language film's lifetime domestic haul stands at over $50 million — currently twice as much as Mickey 17's haul. Despite the behind-the-scenes discord, however, the . It sits at a "fresh" 78% approval rating on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The year's highest-grossing hit at the global box office is China's , which has made over $2 billion worldwide to become the fifth-biggest hit in history. Domestically, the year's top-grossing film remains , which has made nearly $180 million so far. Mickey 17 also features , and ; it still trails Bong's first English-language film, , by around $30 million. You can watch Mickey 17 in theaters, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Mickey 17
- February 28, 2025
- 137 minutes
- Bong Joon Ho
- Bong Joon Ho
- Producers
- Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Marianne Jenkins, Dooho Choi, Jesse Ehrman
Adapted from the novel by Edward Ashton, Mickey 7 is a Sci-Fi film that follows Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson) and his journey to the ice world Niflheim to colonize the planet. Mickey 17 is an "expendable" employee to be used and thrown away after completing their task - often a dangerous one - but when one iteration of Mickey dies, he is reborn in a new body with a large portion of his memories still intact. After six deaths, however, Mickey finally begins to understand the job and why it was always an unfilled position.
