‘Mickey 17’ Will Be Tricky At Global Box Office With $45M Debut – Preview
deadline.comWarner Bros.’ expensive auteur sci-fi feature, Mickey 17, from Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho finally arrives in theaters this weekend with a global outlook around $45M.
The Robert Pattinson movie carries a net production cost after UK tax credits of $118M before P&A. It will take a significant amount of overdrive in turnstiles for the Mickey 17 to breakeven which sources say exists between $240M-$300M.
On the upside, U.S. tracking has improved for Mickey 17 from the teens to the point where a $20M+ domestic opening could be possible.
Original sci-fi is a hard nut to expand an audience for; typically a cold genre aimed at older men. The gist of the campaign has been making Pattinson’s space cog worker — an “expendable” who sacrifices himself only to be “reprinted” or reborn again — relatable to general moviegoers.
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