Two Robert Pattinsons. One box office crown for ‘Mickey 17.’
The Bong Joon-ho adaptation scored the best opening weekend of the director’s career.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of March 7-9, 2025.
1. Mickey 17
Weekend gross: $19.1M
Total domestic gross: $19.1M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
It was a quiet weekend for the box office. But it was a big weekend for Bong Joon-ho. The director’s adaptation of the book Mickey7 into the film Mickey 17 scored a $19.1 million debut — the biggest of Bong’s career. (I seem to be in the minority when it comes to my dislike for the film.)
The bar for that stat is kind of low. Despite the Oscar-winning Parasite grossing $53.9 million in North America and settling less than a million dollars shy of the $200 million worldwide tier, that film had a very slow start, not hitting the 1,000-theater level until its twelfth weekend of release.
Mickey 17, on the other hand, stormed into 3,807 theaters this past weekend, giving the Robert Pattinson-led film plenty of opportunities to make some money.
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2. Captain America: Brave New World
Weekend gross: $8.5M
Total domestic gross: $176.6M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 43
It’s kind of weird to think that Captain America: Brave New World — a real, live MCU movie — has been in theaters for four weekends now, and it feels like it’s barely had an impact.
After that decent $88.8 million opening weekend, Brave New World is already down to single digits at the box office this weekend. The Captain America corner of the MCU hasn’t seen that low of a fourth-weekend haul since the original Captain America: The First Avenger grossed just $7.2 million back in 2011. Captain America: The Winter Soldier scored a $16.2 million fourth weekend while Captain America: Civil War brought in $15.4 million over that same timeframe.
