No studio was going to go away Easter weekend empty.
Within the wake of Lionsgate pushing their Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, from April 18 to Oct. 3 subsequent 12 months, Warner Bros. is backfilling with Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson sci-fi film Mickey 17; that film flying from Jan. 31, 2025 to April 18. Warners could have all of the Imax screens around the globe for the film. Duly word that Warners all the time had the Easter body on maintain for an untitled occasion film; the studio having fun with huge weekends over the vacation body with motion pictures comparable to Conflict of the Titans, Godzilla X Kong, Prepared Participant One and the largest Easter opener of all-time, Batman v. Superman: Daybreak of Justice ($181M).
Warner Bros. Footage and New Line Cinema’s Drew Hancock-directed horror film Companion beforehand set for January 10, 2025 is now dated for January 31, 2025. Companion shall be launched in Imax worldwide.
“When the April 18 date turned out there, we shortly moved to safe it for Mikey 17. We’re thrilled with the brand new date, and really comfortable the movie shall be out there to audiences in Imax,” mentioned a Warner Bros. spokesperson, “With January 31 now out there with a full Imax footprint, we’re additionally very comfortable to have Companion releasing on this new date.”
“It’s primarily based on the novel Mickey 7, however we made it Mickey 17, Bong mentioned at CinemaCon this previous spring. “The quantity is the variety of instances he dies. I kill him 10 instances extra. It’s a narrative of a easy man. It’s a sci-fi film. It’s arduous to say sci-fi — it’s a human story.”
Joon Ho’s earlier directorial, 2019’s Parasite, received the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition and 4 Oscars together with Finest Image. The film grossed $53.3M stateside, one of many highest overseas languages motion pictures ever within the U.S., and over $262M-plus worldwide.
