Box office: Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson’s ‘Mickey 17’ debuts at No. 1 with modest $19 million

Update March 10, 2025: Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 topped the box office in its first weekend of release, earning $19.1 million from March 7 to March 9. The Warner Bros. movie starring Robert Pattinson came in slightly under its $20 million forecast. Disney's latest Marvel movie Captain America: Brave New World held on for second place, adding $8.5 million to the film's total domestic gross of $176 million. Focus Features' Last Breath finished in third place with $4.2 million, followed by Neon's The Monkey and Sony's Paddington in Peru, each earning $3.9 million over the weekend.

Original story published March 7, 2025:What will be the winners and the losers this week at the U.S. box office? Five new movies are crashing theaters this weekend led by Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2019 film, Parasite. They will be facing off against the current top five money-makers: Captain America: Brave New World, Last Breath, The Monkey, Paddington in Peru, and Dog Man.

Gold Derby readers predict that Mickey 17 will win the March 7-9 weekend with less than $25 million domestically. Captain America: Brave New World is the runner-up choice of our odds-makers. Do you agree or disagree with those rankings? Make your predictions right now — it's fun and easy! Join the box-office discussion in our forums.

NEW RELEASES

Mickey 17
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet. The sci-fi dark comedy starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe has a running time of two hours, 17 minutes, and is rated R. Reviews compiled by Metacritic show a "generally favorable" response with an overall score of 74 percent.

Night of the Zoopocalypse
Director: Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Distributor: Viva Pictures
A wolf and mountain lion team up when a meteor unleashes a virus turning zoo animals into zombies. They join forces with other survivors to rescue the zoo and stop the deranged mutant leader from spreading the virus. The animated horror film featuring the voices of David Harbour, Bryn McAuley, and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee has a running time of one hour, 31 minutes, and is rated PG. Reviews compiled by Rotten Tomatoes show it's certified fresh score of 100 percent.

In the Lost Lands
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon. The action-adventure fantasy starring Milla Jovovich, Dave Bautista, and Arly Jover has a running time of one hour, 41 minutes, and is rated R. Reviews compiled by Metacritic show a "generally unfavorable" response with an overall score of 37 percent.

Queen of the Ring
Director: Ash Avildsen
Distributor: Sumerian Films
In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the United States, a small town single mother embraces the danger as she dominates America's most masculine sport and becomes the first million dollar female athlete in history. The biographical sports drama starring Emily Bett Rickards, Josh Lucas, and Tyler Posey has a running time of two hours, 10 minutes, and is rated PG-13. Reviews compiled by Metacritic show a "generally favorable" response with an overall score of 70 percent.

Rule Breakers
Director: Bill Guttentag
Distributor: Angel Studios
In a nation where educating girls is rebellion, a visionary woman sparks hope and opposition. Their courage ignites a movement that could transform their nation forever. The movie based on the true story of the Afghan Dreamers has a running time of two hours, and is rated PG. Reviews compiled by Rotten Tomatoes show it's certified fresh score of 80 percent.

BOX-OFFICE PREDICTIONS

Mickey 17 is projected to come out on top in its debut week, tracking north of $20 million at the weekend box office. The sci-fi flick from Warner Bros. stars Robert Pattinson as multiple versions of the same character, but more Pattinson won't necessarily translate into a Twilight-sized blockbuster. The Bong Joon Ho film cost $118 million to make, so it's going to need multiple lifelines to turn a profit.

Chasing Mickey in second place will be Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World. The superhero movie enters its fourth week in release with a domestic tally of $167 million. It's projected to add another $9 million this weekend. The real surprise may come from Angel Studios, with it's indie Rule Breakers set to debut in the top five with up to $4 million.

Here are Gold Derby's current box-office rankings for the top five:

1. Mickey 17

2. Captain America: Brave New World

3. Last Breath

4. Rule Breakers

5. The Monkey

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