No studio was going to go away Easter weekend empty.
Within the wake of Lionsgate pushing their Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, from April 18 to Oct. 3 subsequent yr, Warner Bros. is backfilling with Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson sci-fi film Mickey 17; that film flying from Jan. 31, 2025 to April 18. Warners could have all of the Imax screens all over the world for the film. Duly observe that Warners at all times had the Easter body on maintain for an untitled occasion film; the studio having fun with large weekends over the vacation body with films resembling Conflict of the Titans, Godzilla X Kong, Prepared Participant One and the largest Easter opener of all-time, Batman v. Superman: Daybreak of Justice ($181M).
Warner Bros. Footage and New Line Cinema’s Drew Hancock-directed horror film Companion beforehand set for January 10, 2025 is now dated for January 31, 2025. Companion shall be launched in Imax worldwide.
“When the April 18 date grew to become out there, we rapidly moved to safe it for Mikey 17. We’re thrilled with the brand new date, and really completely satisfied the movie shall be out there to audiences in Imax,” stated a Warner Bros. spokesperson, “With January 31 now out there with a full Imax footprint, we’re additionally very completely satisfied to have Companion releasing on this new date.”
“It’s primarily based on the novel Mickey 7, however we made it Mickey 17, Bong stated at CinemaCon this previous spring. “The quantity is the variety of occasions he dies. I kill him 10 occasions extra. It’s a narrative of a easy man. It’s a sci-fi film. It’s arduous to say sci-fi — it’s a human story.”
Joon Ho’s earlier directorial, 2019’s Parasite, gained the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition and 4 Oscars together with Greatest Image. The film grossed $53.3M stateside, one of many highest overseas languages films ever within the U.S., and over $262M-plus worldwide.
