Project Hail Mary Has Out of This World Start at the Box Office With $140 Million Opening Weekend

Project Hail Mary has launched large astatine the planetary container office, bringing successful an awesome $140 cardinal during its opening weekend.

The Ryan Gosling-fronted movie earned $80,583,746 domestically and $60.4 cardinal internationally, for an awesome $140,983,746 planetary total. It’s lone the 3rd non-sequel oregon non-franchise movie to unfastened supra $50 cardinal internationally successful the post-COVID epoch (since 2020), sitting alongside Oppenheimer and F1: The Movie. On a like-for-like ground excluding China, Project Hail Mary's opening play is connected par with Interstellar and Dune. It's besides secured the biggest planetary debut of 2026 truthful far, beating Scream 7’s $97 cardinal opening weekend.

$27.6 cardinal of the full opening play container bureau came from IMAX, showing the request to ticker the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller-directed sci-fi epic connected tremendous screens. Indeed, IMAX made up 20.3% of the home total, making it conscionable the 3rd movie successful IMAX past to scale implicit 20% with an wide opening greater than $80 million.

Project Hail Mary is comfortably Amazon MGM Studios' highest grossing movie debut, surpassing Creed III (Amazon’s adjacent big-budget merchandise successful theaters this twelvemonth is Masters of the Universe successful June). According to Variety, Project Hail Mary carried a $200 cardinal budget, truthful it inactive has immoderate mode to spell earlier it moves into nett during its theatrical run. But based connected this start, it has a decent accidental of doing so.

IGN’s Project Hail Mary reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “Project Hail Mary is simply a rollicking sci-fi blockbuster celebrating however overmuch we tin execute erstwhile we enactment together… and however overmuch meet-cute mileage you tin get retired of watching Ryan Gosling befriend a stone alien for 2 and a fractional hours.”

Elsewhere, Disney / Pixar's Hoppers has grossed an estimated $242.6 cardinal ($120.4 cardinal home and $122.2 cardinal international) aft 3 weekends. Scream 7 added different $10.5 cardinal globally this weekend, making for a caller full of $193.835 million. Wuthering Heights is present up to $234.4 million.

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