Rad-ish, the directing team of Christoph Chrudimak and Moritz Friedel, has signed with Park Pictures, New York. They had previously been with bicoastal Go Film….Director Arni Thor Jonsson has joined bicoastal Cohn + Company….Director Wade J. Robson has come aboard BlueYed Pictures, which maintains offices in Los Angeles, London and Tokyo….Editor Bob Spector has joined Red Car, San Francisco….Editor Staci Le Van has come aboard charlieuniformtango, Dallas….Lead animators Charlie Breakiron and William Clay have joined the 3-D department of visual effects studio Quiet Man, New York….Producers/ composers Michael Boyd and Peter Scaturro have teamed to form Obscura Music, Venice, Calif….Mark Tutssel, vice chairman and regional creative director of Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, has been named executive TV jury chairman for the 2005 International Clio Awards & Festival. Ty Montague, recently named co-president and executive creative director of J. Walter Thompson, New York, is Clio’s executive content and contact jury chairman…. MiShawn Williams has come aboard bicoastal Face The Music as producer….Paul Silburn has been named executive creative director for Fallon North America. He will be based in the Minneapolis office; he had previously been deputy creative director at TBWA, London….Jimmy Smith has joined BBDO New York as an executive creative director. He comes over from Wieden+ Kennedy, Portland, Ore., and will report to David Lubars, chairman/chief creative officer for BBDO North America….Audrey Berger has been named executive producer at McHale Barone, a New York-based TV/radio spot scoring shop….Senior mixer/sound designer Frank Verderosa has joined Nutmeg Audio Post, New York….Editor Nicholas Erasmus of Terminal, Santa Monica, is again available for spots after wrapping independent feature Pretty Persuasion, directed by Marcos Siega. The film, which stars James Woods, Evan Rachel Wood and Ron Livingston, is slated for release in 2005….
“Mickey 17” Tops Weekend Box Office, But Profitability Is A Long Way Off
"Parasite" filmmaker Bong Joon Ho's original science fiction film "Mickey 17" opened in first place on the North American box office charts. According to studio estimates Sunday, the Robert Pattinson-led film earned $19.1 million in its first weekend in theaters, which was enough to dethrone "Captain America: Brave New World" after a three-week reign.
Overseas, "Mickey 17" has already made $34.2 million, bringing its worldwide total to $53.3 million. But profitability for the film is a long way off: It cost a reported $118 million to produce, which does not account for millions spent on marketing and promotion.
A week following the Oscars, where "Anora" filmmaker Sean Baker made an impassioned speech about the importance of the theatrical experience – for filmmakers to keep making movies for the big screens, for distributors to focus on theatrical releases and for audiences to keep going – "Mickey 17" is perhaps the perfect representation of this moment in the business, or at least an interesting case study. It's an original film from an Oscar-winning director led by a big star that was afforded a blockbuster budget and given a robust theatrical release by Warner Bros., one of the few major studios remaining. But despite all of that, and reviews that were mostly positive (79% on RottenTomatoes), audiences did not treat it as an event movie, and it may ultimately struggle to break even.
Originally set for release in March 2024, Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Parasite" faced several delays, which he has attributed to extenuating circumstances around the Hollywood strikes. Based on the novel "Mickey7" by Edward Ashton, Pattinson plays an expendable employee who dies on missions and is re-printed time and time again. Steven... Read More