{"id":376580,"date":"2026-09-01T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376580"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:16:30","slug":"mickey-17-is-now-trending-on-streaming-a-second-life-after-its-box-office-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mickey-17-is-now-trending-on-streaming-a-second-life-after-its-box-office-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey 17 is now trending on streaming: a second life after its box office flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bong Joon Ho\u2019s sci-fi film <em>Mickey 17<\/em> is suddenly back in the conversation. It\u2019s started trending on <a href=\"https:\/\/hbo-max.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max<\/a> in the U.S. and has landed in <a href=\"https:\/\/netflix.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> top 10 lists in some international markets, based on the platforms\u2019 own rankings, giving it a fresh wave of attention after a theatrical run that fell short.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was Bong\u2019s first feature since <em>Parasite<\/em>, and it wasn\u2019t cheap. Reports put the <strong>budget at about $118 million<\/strong>, while worldwide box office came in around $133.3 million. That\u2019s well below the roughly $236 million to $295 million that industry estimates usually say a movie at that scale needs to reach. Still, streaming has people looking at it again, and critics and fans are starting to treat it as one of the year\u2019s messier, louder, more ambitious studio swings.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film adapts Edward Ashton\u2019s 2022 novel <em>Mickey7<\/em>. It follows Mickey, an \u201cexpendable\u201d worker on a space-colonization mission who\u2019s expected to die whenever the job requires it, then come back in a newly printed body with most of his memories still there. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-science-fiction-movie-with-robert-pattinson-that-excited-audiences-and-that-you-can-now-watch-on-hbo-max\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Pattinson plays<\/a> both Mickey 17 and Mickey 18, and a lot of the praise around the movie has gone to the way he handles the mix of dark comedy, panic, and existential dread.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its trouble in theaters probably came from a few things hitting at once: marketing that was hard to pin down, <strong>release-date changes<\/strong>, and a genuinely strange blend of grotesque sci-fi, political satire, and ideas about identity, labor, corporate power, colonialism, and class. Those themes will feel familiar if you\u2019ve seen Bong Joon Ho\u2019s <em>Snowpiercer<\/em>, <em>Okja<\/em>, and <em>Parasite<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you skipped <em>Mickey 17<\/em> in theaters, this second life on streaming looks like a good reason to give it a shot. It\u2019s on <strong>HBO Max in the U.S.<\/strong> and on Netflix in some international markets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bong Joon Ho\u2019s sci-fi film Mickey 17 is suddenly back in the conversation. It\u2019s started trending on HBO Max in the U.S. and has landed in Netflix top 10 lists in some international markets, based on the platforms\u2019 own rankings, giving it a fresh wave of attention after a theatrical run that fell short. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mickey-17-is-now-trending-on-streaming-a-second-life-after-its-box-office-flop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mickey 17 is now trending on streaming: a second life after its box office flop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9323,"featured_media":376579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376581,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376580\/revisions\/376581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376580"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376580"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376580"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}