‘Project Hail Mary’ To Blast Off To $45M-$55M Opening, ‘Ready Or Not 2’ $11M+ – Early Box Office Look

Amazon MGM Studios’ $150M feature production Project Hail Mary arrived on tracking today with some heat, eyeing a potential $50M start in North America when it opens on March 20.

While the Ryan Gosling starring, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed, Amy Pascal produced movie about a high school science teacher who finds himself thrust into space to solve a galaxy deterioration situation, is strong with men in first choice, it’s also very strong women. Current first choice figures for Project Hail Mary are ahead of Oppenheimer, F1 the Movie and Weapons when they first hit tracking (remember nobody was spotting Oppenheimer at an $82.4M opening in its initial projections). Project Hail Mary is the first four-quad movie since Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Note that only 87 titles have opened to north of $40M at the domestic box office, and only seven have been non-sequels (that includes Oppenheimer and It Ends With Us…