UPDATE: 2025/03/09 07:58 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Mickey 17 Comes In Ever-So Slightly Above Original $18 Million Projections

This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with up-to-date box office projections (in bold), a full chart, and further analysis.

Mickey 17 release. The Robert Pattinson sci-fi movie, in which he plays multiple clones who are used as expendable test subjects, is the first feature from director Bong Joon Ho since his 2019 Best Picture winner Parasite.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Mickey 17 is projected to take in a 3-day opening weekend total of $19.1 million at the domestic box office. This hardly makes a dent in its reported $118 million budget, which likely makes it so that it will need to earn $295 million or more worldwide in order to break even. However, this total is still more than enough for it to topple Captain America: Brave New World from the No. 1 position.

In its third weekend, the Marvel movie has sunk to No. 2 for the first time with an $8.5 million haul, ahead of weekend 2 of Last Breath, which has seen a not too shabby drop of 47%. This brings Brave New World's domestic haul to $177 million in North America and $370.8 million worldwide, which makes it the highest-grossing English-language movie of the year. Below, see the full Top 5 chart for the domestic box office this weekend:

#	Title	3-Day Total	Cumulative (Domestic)
1	Mickey 17	$19.1 million	$19.1 million (weekend 1)
2	Captain America: Brave New World	$8.5 million	$177 million (weekend 3)
3	Last Breath	$4.2 million	$14.5 million (weekend 2)
4	The Monkey	$3.9 million	$31 million (weekend 3)
5	Paddington in Peru	$3.8 million	$36.9 million (weekend 4)

With the Captain America: Brave New World release maintaining a position in the Top 2 even though it has fallen from its perch at the top of the chart, there has necessarily been some movement among the holdover titles on the chart. However, the previous weekend's No. 2 through No. 4 have simply shifted down one slot apiece, with Last Breath's aforementioned drop, The Monkey falling 39.2% in week 3 and Paddington in Peru dropping just 15.9% during its fourth weekend in domestic theaters.

The only movie that has fallen off the chart entirely is DreamWorks' Dog Man, which is at No. 6 in its sixth weekend. Meanwhile, one new release - the Paul W. S. Anderson-directed George R. R. Martin adaptation In the Lost Lands - has barely managed to find a rung at the distant bottom of the chart, landing at No. 10 with a projected $1 million debut, which is about even with Angel Studios' inspirational drama Rule Breakers, which debuted at No. 9.

What This Means For Mickey 17

There Is Some Triumph Mixed With Its Disappointing Debut

In spite of falling far short of its budget, the domestic opening for Mickey 17 is still the third-best of 2025 so far, falling behind the $88.8 million debut of Captain America: Brave New World and the $36 million bow of Dog Man, but coming in slightly ahead of Den of Thieves: Pantera's $15 million. While the Bong Joon Ho movie is technically not original because it is based on Edward Ashton's novel Mickey 7, this still marks the best debut for a non-franchise movie of the year, as Dog Man is a spinoff from DreamWorks' 2017 movie Captain Underpants.

Captain America: Brave New World has had the best debut of the year so far, but it is still tracking poorly compared to previous MCU movies and remains the 32nd highest-grossing movie of the 35-film franchise worldwide at the time of writing.

However, its comparative success does not mitigate the huge risk taken on by the movie's budget. Although Parasite was an Oscar-winning critical and commercial smash, it only grossed $262.6 million worldwide, which still wouldn't have been enough to hit the new movie's estimated break-even point. While Mickey 17 reviews have been kind, earning it a Certified Fresh score of 79% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes alongside a 75% audience score, these scores are nowhere near Parasite's scores of 99% and 95% respectively, which could spell bad news for the Robert Pattinson movie's potential as a similar word-of-mouth success.

Our Take On The Weekend Box Office

March Could Continue To Disappoint

After 2025 opened with a roster of movies that weren't runaway hits but were collectively turning out strong grosses, March has so far failed to live up to that promise. Given the similarly lukewarm projections for the live-action Snow White remake, which is the biggest remaining release of March, it ultimately seems unlikely that Captain America: Brave New World and Mickey 17 will find strong competition for even their modest grosses until either A Minecraft Movie debuts in April or May delivers the tentpoles Thunderbolts*, Lilo & Stitch, and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

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Source: Variety