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‘Mickey 17’ Leads Box Office With $19 Million But $118 Million Budget Spells Trouble
"Mickey 17" was No. 1 at the domestic box office with $18 million but the $118 million film will struggle to turn a profit.
But the Warner Bros. film cost $118 million, a staggering price for an original, offbeat space odyssey — and the kind of swing for the fence that could require a few lifetimes to turn a theatrical profit. “Mickey 17” is director Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up to “Parasite,” a pitch black comedy that became the first foreign language film to ever win the Oscar for best picture. Now, Sean Baker’s comedy about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries a Russian oligarch’s son, has officially relinquished the ignominious crown as the lowest-grossing best picture winner in modern history.
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