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Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “Mickey 17,” a dystopian sci-fi comedy starring a dozen Robert Pattinsons, was No. 1 at the domestic box office with $19.1 million from 3,807 theaters. But the Warner Bros.

according to The Numbers.The black comedy sci-fi flick, which The Post called “a letdown,” stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.The film, which reportedly cost $118 million to make, is based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, and centers around a dystopian society that creates cloned expendable humans. It has already taken the title of best debut for a non-franchise movie this year, and could enjoy an up-to-$20-million-dollar opening weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Parasite, director Bong Joon-ho has returned with a science-fiction comedy starring Robert Pattinson.Based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the film follows Mickey Barnes who joins a space mission as an ‘expendable’. In this job, he’s given lethal assignments but everytime he dies, he’s ‘reprinted’ through cloning technology.Other members of the film’s cast include Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Holliday Grainger.This is Bong Joon-ho’s eighth film, following the likes of Okja, Snowpiercer, Mother, Parasite, and The Host.After a failed business venture leaves them on the run, Mickey Barnes (Pattinson) and his friend Timo (Yeun) sign up as crew on a space ship which is leaving Earth to colonise a planet called Nilfheim.

Jordan Moreau The box office is welcoming back Robert Pattinson — a lot of him. Pattinson stars in “Mickey 17,” an R-rated sci-fi movie from “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, where he plays multiple clones of the same person who dies repeatedly. The Warner Bros.

Mickey 17 and Parasite director Bong Joon-ho has said he would be open to making an Alien musical.Speaking in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, when asked about working on a blockbuster franchise like Star Wars or James Bond, he said: “I’m not drawn to franchise films, but I did think at one point that I would like to do an Alien film.”He then added: “An Alien musical.”The most recent movie in the long running franchise was Alien: Romulus, which was released last year and directed by Fede Álvarez. The film, which is set between the first two Alien films, featured highly in NME’s 20 Best Films of 2024.NME’s five-star review described it as being “as thrilling and scary as the original”, and “a movie that comes close to the brilliance of Ridley Scott and James Cameron”.A forthcoming TV series – Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien is also set to drop later this year on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK.Meanwhile, Bong’s latest movie Mickey 17, which stars Robert Pattinson, is released in cinemas today (March 7).The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, sees Pattinson play Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong.

Warner 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.

Mickey 17 and Parasite, has named BLACKPINK as his favourite K-pop group.In support of Mickey 17’s upcoming premiere, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho recently made an appearance on the Buzzfeed YouTube series The Puppy Interview. During his time on the series, the director was quizzed about several things, including who his favourite K-pop group are.“BLACKPINK,” he answered.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel “Mickey7”), or a number as unwieldy as 18 (the inflated figure in Bong Joon Ho’s big-screen adaptation), the prospect of an endless supply of gawping Robert Pattinson clones really starts to wear on us. The “Snowpiercer” director is back in familiar territory with “Mickey 17,” a bonkers sci-fi satire set in a grim future where Earth is no longer habitable, other planets must be colonized and the success of a four-year mission to the ice planet Niflheim depends on disposable human copies called Expendables.

Director Bong Joon Ho, actor Robert Pattinson and fellow cast members were on hand today in Berlin to introduce the German premiere of their new sci-fi Mickey 17.

Naman Ramachandran Robert Pattinson revealed at the world premiere of “Mickey 17” in London that “The Batman: Part II” will begin production at the end of this year. Pattinson kept plot details confidential while speaking to Variety on the film’s red carpet at Leicester Square, but he said: “I think at the end of the year? And I know what it’s about but I can’t tell anyone, but it’s like, it’s very cool.

Naman Ramachandran In a wide-ranging conversation at the British Film Institute ahead of his new film “Mickey 17,” Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho revealed that Mark Ruffalo‘s antagonist character bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain U.S. president who once criticized “Parasite’s” historic Academy Awards sweep.

Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson kicked off the long-awaited launch of Mickey 17 with the first official press event for the movie in the Korean capital of Seoul on Monday.

Mickey 17, the next movie from Parasite Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho, is making a premiere at Berlin Film Festival, Deadline has confirmed.

Naman Ramachandran Bong Joon-ho‘s upcoming science fiction film, “Mickey 17,” is scheduled to debut in South Korean theaters on Feb. 28, preceding its global release by a week, Warner Bros. Korea said on Friday.

Bong Joon-ho‘s highly anticipated sci-fi film Mickey 17 is set to premiere on February 28 in South Korea, before the title’s March 7 North American release and global rollout.

Robert Pattinson sci-fi black comedy Mickey 17 has seen yet another change to its release date, with it now set to arrive earlier than expected.The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, is directed by Bong Joon-ho, who helmed the Oscar-conquering Parasite in 2019 as well as Okja, Snowpiercer and The Host.Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong. The film also stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.Check out the trailer here:The film’s release date has been moved back and forth multiple times over the last 12 months, but now it appears that a final date has been set, with Warner Bros.

The New York Times Style Magazine in an interview published on Wednesday. “I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?’”Pattinson explained that he would often embellish stories — or downright lie — when talking to the press during that time in his career because he was bored of being asked the same questions.

Katcy Stephan Bong Joon Ho fans will have to wait a little bit longer to see the director’s long-awaited return after “Parasite.” Warner Bros. has shifted the Robert Pattinson-led sci-fi film “Mickey 17” to April 18, 2025, three months after the previous release date of Jan. 31, 2025.

Jaden Thompson Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the long-awaited follow-up to the director’s best picture winner “Parasite.” Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” employee named Mickey Barnes. In the novel, Mickey is sent on dangerous missions to colonize an ice planet.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Allow Robert Pattinson to introduce himself again… and again and again. He plays more than a dozen versions of the same character, Mickey Barnes, in director Bong Joon Ho‘s upcoming sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17.” Bong, the Oscar-winning director of “Parasite,” brought a wacky, thrilling first look at the film to CinemaCon, the annual exhibition trade show that’s currently unfolding in Las Vegas.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief South Korean cinema-goers will get a three-day jump on the rest of the world when the Bong Joon-ho-directed “Mickey 17” releases in January 2025 in time for the Lunar New Year holidays. Warner Bros. Pictures says that the Robert Pattinson-starring sci-fi film will open in Korea on Tuesday, Jan.