Friday, May 22, 2026

“Parasite” Director Strikes Out with $120 Mil “Mickey 17,” with Robert Pattinson, Set for Less Than $20 Mil Weekend

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Six years ago, “Snowpiercer” director Bong Joon Ho caused a sensation with “Parasite.”

The social commentary thriller caught on like wildfire and wound up winning the Oscar for Best Picture. Bong won Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Now comes “Mickey 17” starring Robert Pattinson, a movie I know nothing about. All I do know is that “Mickey” cost around $120 million and is unlikely to make that back.

So far the box office is just $7.5 million over Thursday and Friday. Weekend estimates are less than $20 million. In other words, it’s a bust.

“Mickey 17” has a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. But people are not eager to see it. The audience response is just 75%. I may not be alone in not knowing much about it. The cast is good — Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun, Toni Colette — but who knows what that means?

Stay tuned…

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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