‘Project Hail Mary’ Blasts Off to Amazon Record $77 Million Box Office Opening – Yahoo News Singapore USEnglish Amazon has just landed its biggest box office opening ever with “Project Hail Mary,” the Phil Lord/Chris Miller adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestselling sci-fi novel, which earned $33 million from 4,007 theaters on opening day and is now projected for an opening weekend of $77 million. For Amazon, which became Amazon MGM Studios after acquiring the legacy studio MGM in 2021, this blows past its previous domestic opening of $58.3 million set by “Creed III” in March 2023. In fact, the only movie that is not a sequel or part of franchise to post a higher opening weekend than “Project Hail Mary” in the past decade is Universal and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” with $82 million in July 2023. With its mix of outer space excitement, humor, and moving moments — all coming from lead star Ryan Gosling — the word-of-mouth for “Project Hail Mary” has been excellent across the board with an A on CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 95% critics and 97% audience. Even with major competition coming next week from Universal’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” “Project Hail Mary” has everything it needs to become a spring blockbuster hit that lasts well into April.
Published: March 21, 2026 2:48 pm
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