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Mickey 17 was released in South Korea this Friday and has been performing really well. It has seen a considerable rise at the box office from its opening day and showcases a dominating presence in director Bong Joon-ho’s home country. This positive response will benefit it upon its wider release. Keep scrolling for more.
For the unversed, it is a sci-fi black comedy by the Oscar-winning director which follows Robert Pattinson in the titular role. A financially exhausted, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an expendable, disposable clone worker on the human colony Nilfheim. As an expendable, Mickey undertakes several dangerous assignments he is not expected to survive, with a new body being regenerated each time he dies. One of his clones is incorrectly assumed dead and prematurely replaced, finding his way back to the colony.
Based on trade analyst Luiz Fernando’s report, Bong Joon Ho’s film Mickey 17 collected a solid $2.4 million on Saturday, still dominating at #1. Robert Pattinson’s movie saw a hike of +40.2% from Friday’s opening day, controlling 68.8% of the market share. This was the biggest Saturday for Warner Bros post-COVID.
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