{"id":2341380,"date":"2026-03-22T23:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2341380"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:29:39","slug":"amazon-mgm-studios-project-hail-mary-rockets-to-the-top-of-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amazon-mgm-studios-project-hail-mary-rockets-to-the-top-of-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘Project Hail Mary’ rockets to the top of the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ryan Gosling-led \u201cProject Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a big win for Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n

The film \u2014 which stars Gosling as a science teacher who embarks on a space mission to save humanity \u2014 hauled in $80.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, making it the biggest domestic debut of the year so far. Globally, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d brought in $140.9 million.<\/p>\n

The movie is an adaptation of a novel by Andy Weir, author of \u201cThe Martian\u201d \u2014 another successful book-to-screen adventure. The big opening weekend for \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is a boost for Amazon MGM Studios, which had heavily promoted the film as an example of the big blockbusters it could produce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe deeply in the Hail Mary, and it\u2019s clear audiences do as well,\u201d Kevin Wilson, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Amazon MGM Studios, said in a statement. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in theaters \u2014the energy, the exit scores, the word of mouth \u2014 is everything we believed this film would deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walt Disney Co. and Pixar\u2019s \u201cHoppers\u201d came in second at the box office this weekend with a domestic total of $18 million. The original animated film<\/a> has now garnered $120.4 million in the U.S. and Canada since it debuted in theaters earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Indian action film \u201cDhurandhar The Revenge\u201d came in third with $10 million, followed by Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures\u2019 horror film \u201cReady or Not 2: Here I Come\u201d and Universal Pictures\u2019 romance \u201cReminders of Him\u201d rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ryan Gosling-led \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a big win for Amazon MGM Studios. The film \u2014 which stars Gosling as a science teacher who embarks on a space mission to save humanity \u2014 hauled in $80.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, making it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2341381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amazon-MGM-Studios-Project-Hail-Mary-rockets-to-the-top.com2Fde2F132F1c69406a44cb901725dc4342.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341382,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341380\/revisions\/2341382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}