No studio was going to leave Easter weekend empty.
In the wake of Lionsgate pushing their Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, from April 18 to Oct. 3 next year, Warner Bros. is backfilling with Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson sci-fi movie Mickey 17; that movie flying from Jan. 31, 2025 to April 18. Warners will have all the Imax screens around the world for the movie. Duly note that Warners always had the Easter frame on hold for an untitled event movie; the studio enjoying big weekends over the holiday frame with movies such as Clash of the Titans, Godzilla X Kong, Ready Player One and the biggest Easter opener of all-time, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($181M).
Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema’s Drew Hancock-directed horror movie Companion previously set for January 10, 2025 is now dated for January 31, 2025. Companion will be released in Imax worldwide.
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“When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for Mikey 17. We’re thrilled with the new date, and very happy the film will be available to audiences in Imax,” said a Warner Bros. spokesperson, “With January 31 now available with a full Imax footprint, we are also very happy to have Companion releasing on this new date.”
“It’s based on the novel Mickey 7, but we made it Mickey 17, Bong said at CinemaCon this past spring. “The number is the number of times he dies. I kill him 10 times more. It’s a story of a simple man. It’s a sci-fi movie. It’s hard to say sci-fi — it’s a human story.”
Joon Ho’s previous directorial, 2019’s Parasite, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and four Oscars including Best Picture. The movie grossed $53.3M stateside, one of the highest foreign languages movies ever in the U.S., and over $262M-plus worldwide.