‘Mickey 17’ Tops A Weak Box Office

Mickey 17 landed at the box office, where it opened to a sluggish $19.1 million after failing to wow audiences. That was still more than enough to come in at No. 1 amid a slowdown that has seen year-over-gains plummet over the past several weekends.

Mickey 17‘s price-tag is another challenge. The dark comedy cost a reported $118 million to make before marketing, so will need strong legs to land in the black. Reviewers and audiences weren’t excited about the film, which boasts a solid but not spectacular 78 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and 73 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcorn meter, and was slapped with a B CinemaScore.

Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World — the year’s top earner to date — held firmly at No. 2 in its fourth outing with an estimated $8.5 million for a domestic haul of $176.6 million. Overseas, it earned another $9.2 million for a foreign tally of $194.2 million and $370.8 million globally.

The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of March 9, are as follows:

#	Title	Distributor Name	Weekend Total	# of Locs	Loc Avg	Cume Total	% Change
1	Mickey 17	Warner Bros.	$19,100,000	3,807	$5,017	$19,100,000
2	Captain America: Brave New World	Disney	$8,500,000	3,480	$2,443	$176,584,423	-42.76%
3	Last Breath	Focus Features	$4,200,000	3,090	$1,359	$14,657,000	-47%
4	Monkey, The	Neon Rated	$3,900,000	2,955	$1,320	$31,003,297	-39%
5	Paddington in Peru	Sony	$3,850,000	3,085	$1,248	$36,959,000	-14.82%
6	Dog Man	Universal	$3,500,000	2,753	$1,271	$88,763,000	-18%
7	Anora	Neon Rated	$1,860,000	1,938	$960	$18,448,400	595%
8	Mufasa: The Lion King	Disney	$1,700,000	1,460	$1,164	$250,487,739	-14%
9	Rule Breakers	Angel Studios	$1,593,401	2,044	$780	$1,593,401
10	In the Lost Lands	Vertical	$1,043,000	1,370	$761	$1,043,000
11	Night of the Zoopocalypse	Viva Pictures Distribution	$810,821	1,400	$579	$810,821
12	One of Them Days	Sony	$725,000	1,411	$514	$48,545,000	-21%