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Bong Joon Ho’s latest film, Mickey 17, is struggling to take off at the box office. The sci-fi comedy, starring Robert Pattinson as a pair of interstellar doppelgängers, made $7.7 million on opening day (including previews from 3,807 theaters). It’s on track for an $18 million opening weekend—not bad, but not exactly a home run for a movie with a massive $118 million budget. And when you factor in marketing and distribution, it’ll need to clear a whopping $275 million worldwide just to break even.
There is, however, some promising momentum overseas. The film has already made $18.7 million internationally, with a strong $11.4 million coming from South Korea, Bong’s home country. That brings its early global total to $26.4 million as of Friday, giving Warner Bros. hope that the international market might soften the blow of its slow domestic start.
While Mickey 17 works to find its audience, Captain America: Brave New World is still going strong in its fourth weekend, expected to bring in around $8.7 million. That will push its domestic total to about $177 million—not Marvel’s biggest hit, but still holding its own.
What’s the Movie About?
Mickey 17 is based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey 7, which follows a man in a frozen space colony who takes on a job as an “expendable.” Basically, whenever he dies, a new version of him is printed and sent back into action. Pattinson leads the cast alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Watch the trailer below.