Oscar-winning Parasite director Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17 is on the move again.
Warner Bros. announced Wednesday it is pushing back the film’s release from Jan. 31, 2025, to April 18, 2025. Mickey 17 will be released in Imax theaters globally.
The news came one day after Lionsgate said it is pushing back the release of its Michael Jackson biopic Michael from April 18 of next year to Oct. 3, 2025. The feature is directed by Antoine Fuqua. More and more, premium large-format screens are contributing a huge percentage of a film’s earnings, so are in high demand.
“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 studio spokesperson said in a statement.
Robert Pattinson stars in the adaptation of the 2022 novel Mickey 7, from author Edward Ashton. In the novel, Mickey 7 is a space colonist known as an expendable. (In fact, he is the seventh iteration of a man named Mickey Barnes.) Each colony features an expendable, a crewmember who takes deadly jobs but who are then restored via clone bodies when they die. Ashton published the sequel, Antimatter Blues, last year.
Director Bong is expected to put his own trademark spin on the source material, with the film also starring Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Plan B Entertainment is producing, with Dooho Choi of Kate Street Picture Company, and Bong via his Offscreen, Inc. banner.
In a twinned move, New Line and Warner Bros. said it is pushing back the release of Companion from Jan. 10, 2025, to Jan. 31, 2025. The reason? Again, it will access to Imax screens around the globe.