Director Joseph Kahn is linking with bicoastal HSI Productions for commercials and music videos. Plans call for his Los Angeles roost, SuperMega, to become a satellite of HSI. Kahn and SuperMega were most recently affiliated with Palomar Pictures, Los Angeles…..Word is that director Neil Tardio, Jr., is headed for bicoastal Go Film….At press time, rumors were swirling that a deal is brewing between New York shops PostWorks and the Tapehouse family of companies. Stay tuned….Mark Sitley has been promoted to director of production, North America, at Fallon, which has offices in Minneapolis and New York….Henninger Capitol, a post facility based in Washington, D.C., has been shuttered by Henninger Media Services, Arlington, Va. Henninger still maintains its other divisions which includes Henninger Richmond; Henninger Arlington; Henninger Charlottesville; and Commonwealth Film Labs, Richmond….Machete Edit & Design, Chicago, has added creative editor Mark Jepsen to its staff….Executive producer Rob Appelblatt and visual effects designer Tim Crean, formerly of New York effects house Guava, have launched visual effects/design shop Suspect, New York..… Creative director/editor Christopher Willoughby and executive producer Leah Welsh have launched creative editorial/design company Space Division, with offices in Santa Ana and Santa Monica. Willoughby and Welsh come over from ARTiFACT, which closed its creative editorial/design business at the end of ’02….Gina Pagano has joined Bikini Edit, New York, as executive producer. She most recently served in the same role at Mint, Santa Monica….Composer David Della Santa has joined New York music shop tonefarmer….An earlier Street Talk item linked editors Brad Briggs and Fernando Villena with Easyway Editorial, Dallas. Briggs is repped in the Texas market by Easyway, but continues to be handled in all other territories by Brass Knuckles Editorial, Venice, Calif. Brass Knuckles represents Villena worldwide….
“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