Robert Pattinson in “Mickey 17.”
Mickey 17 — director Bong Joon Ho’s dark sci-fi comedy starring Robert Pattinson — is done playing in theaters. How much did it make at the box office?
Mickey 17 marks Ho’s first film since 2019’s Parasite, which earned the filmmaker Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture as one of the film’s producers. Mickey 17 debuted in theaters on March 7.
Set in 2054, Mickey 17 stars Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, a failed businessman who enlists in a space colonization mission and is put into one dangerous situation after the next because he’s an “Expendable.” The drill is relatively simple: Once Mickey dies, he is cloned with his previous memories left intact, printed up and assigned a new number.
However, when Mickey 17 is presumed dead and his clone, Mickey 18, is printed up, it puts both Mickey’s lives on the line since the colonizers and their leader, Kenneth (Mark Ruffalo) forbid the existence of “Multiples.”
Rated R, Mickey 17 also stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun and Toni Collette.
As indicated by The Numbers’ weekly theater count list, Mickey 17 ended its domestic theater run on Thursday April 24, when it made $8,973 from 94 North American theaters to bring its domestic tally to $46,047,147.
Coupled with its international tally of $80,781,191, Mickey 17 had a worldwide box office gross of $126,828,338 against a $118 million budget before prints and advertising costs, per The Numbers.
How Did ‘Mickey 17’s’ Numbers Stack Up Against ‘Parasite’?
On top of Parasite’s success at the Oscars — the film also took the statuette for Best International Feature in addition to Bong Joon Ho’s three wins — Parasite had an enormously successful run at the box office.
Parasite earned $53.8 million at the North American box office and nearly $199.9 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $253.7 million.
And while Parasite ended up earning significantly more money than Ho’s Mickey 17, without question the most stark difference between the two was Parasite’s lean production budget.
Per The Numbers, Parasite cost $11.8 million to make before P&A as opposed to Mickey’s 17’s production spend of $118 million.
Mickey’s 17’s next mission, of course, will be to earn money in the home entertainment space, where it is currently available on digital streaming via premium video on demand.
When Mickey 17 debuts on streaming video on the demand it will be on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max platform since the film a Warner Bros. release. Mickey 17’s release date on Max has not yet been announced.
