Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” is being pushed again on the discharge slate but once more, however this time the studio believes it’s shifting it to a extra aggressive slot on the 2025 calendar.
“Mickey 17” was initially meant to open January 31 in theaters (initially pushed again from March 2024), however it is going to now open April 18, 2025, nonetheless with an IMAX launch.
Studio Warner Bros. has additionally shifted the discharge date of New Line Cinema’s “Companion,” the newest horror movie from the group behind “Barbarian,” into that January 31 window and given it too a worldwide IMAX launch. That movie is simply shifting again by a number of weeks after initially being slated for January 10.
“When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for ‘Mickey 17.’ We’re thrilled with the new date, and very happy the film will be available to audiences in IMAX,” a Warner Bros. Footage spokesperson stated in a press release. “With January 31 now available with a full IMAX footprint, we are also very happy to have ‘Companion’ releasing on this new date.”
That film that vacated the April 18 slot was “Michael,” Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic that might be one of many main blockbusters of subsequent 12 months. The biopic was pushed into the autumn, probably for an awards play, but it surely opened up a major slot within the spring for Bong’s sci-fi. WB noticed a chance and pounced.
The transfer additionally provides “Mickey 17” not simply IMAX screens but additionally the possibility to safe different PLFs, hoping for a busy time throughout the Easter vacation. And the studio has seen robust response to the preliminary trailer for the movie, which debuted in September.
With any launch date, there might have been the hope that “Mickey 17” might make its debut at a pageant corresponding to Cannes, the place Bong gained the Palme D’Or for his prior movie “Parasite,” however this slot a minimum of provides it the possibility to play a pageant corresponding to Sundance or SXSW, although it’s unclear if both is a chance. Bong beforehand stated the delay needed to do with a “long process” in his last lower, however that the model that may hit theaters may be very a lot his personal, not the product of studio intervention.
“Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson as a clone continually despatched to carry out harmful jobs on an ice planet that steadily get him killed. However issues get messy when one of many clones survives a mission that was meant to kill him and he will get entangled with the newest iteration of himself. The movie relies on a ebook by Edward Ashton known as “Mickey 7” and likewise stars Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and Naomi Ackie.
The transfer for “Companion” is a robust vote of confidence too, because it too will now have entry to IMAX screens that might’ve gone to “Mickey 17.” Drew Hancock wrote and directed the movie that stars Sophie Thatcher, Rupert Buddy, and Jack Quaid.
