UPDATED:Ahead of next weekends domestic and wider overseas rollout, Bong Joon-hosMickey 17kicked off inKoreathis session.
Bongs first film since his multiple Oscar winnerParasite,Mickey 17was the No.
1 draw for Korea audiences who gave it a 70% market share.
Clockwise from top left: ‘Mickey 17,’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,’ ‘Ne Zha 2’Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, Enlight
Combined with $18M fromNorth America, that rises to $1.98B or $2.002B.
It is the 7th movie ever to $2B and the second speediest to the mark.
That lifts the overseas cume to$178.1Mand global to$341.8M.
That takes the total UPI markets to 75 with a$90.2Mcume.
Germanygave the heroines return a No.
1 welcome of $2.3M, in line withTicket to Paradisewhose biggest overseas market was Germany.
Reviews and word of mouth are strong with staggered school holidays and Carnaval festivities in the mix.
Italyopened to $969K at No.2, in line withTicket to ParadiseandIt Ends with Us.
Performance is aboveBridget Joness Babyat the same point.
Still to release are Japan and Korea in April.
The respective international cumes are $23.3M (including FilmNation markets) and $25.6M.
