‘Mickey 17’ Mints $2.5M In Thursday Previews – Box Office
deadline.comWarner Bros and Plan B Entertainment’s Mickey 17 did $2.5M in previews last night at 3,200 locations. Showtimes began at 3PM for the Bong Joon Ho directed and adapted movie.
Tracking has the pic hoping to do around $20M. The global outlook was we told you is around $45M. It’s an expensive movie given that it’s original sci-fi with an initial greenlight of $118M before P&A.
How that stacks up to other sci-fi movies: Micey 17‘s previews are higher than that of Plan B Entertainment’s other sci-fi movie, Ad Astra, from pre-Covid September 2019 which did $1.5M on its way to a $19M opening, and a final domestic of $50M and $127.4M worldwide.
That astronaut dramatic movie starring Brad Pitt cost $100M after reshoots. Mickey 17′s previews are also above the $1.45M previews made by Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival back in November 2016 which went on to a $24M opening.
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