{"id":553004,"date":"2026-03-20T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:54:10","slug":"project-hail-mary-set-for-strong-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553004\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221; Set For Strong Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/project-hail-mary-set-for-strong-debut.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon MGM Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/project-hail-mary-set-for-strong-debut.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"project-hail-mary-set-for-strong-debut\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>The Ryan Gosling-led \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d opens this weekend, riding on the high of strong reviews and high projections.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/project-hail-mary-amazon-hit-flops-1236689984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> reports that the film is targeting a domestic launch of around $63-65 million, the biggest opening to date for an Amazon MGM Studios title \u2013 beating the previous $58 million record held by \u201cCreed III\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is coming off a $200 million budget, meaning it needs to earn at least $500 million at the box-office to break even if it were conventional film. Amazon MGM says that its titles boost subscriptions and viewership on Prime Video and so the metrics are a little different.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as a much needed win for the studio which has had some modest hits like \u201cChallengers,\u201d \u201cAir,\u201d \u201cThe Accountant 2\u201d and \u201cRed One\u201d \u2013 several of those didn\u2019t quite make enough to justify their budgets.\t<\/p>\n<p>More recently \u201cCrime 101\u201d sadly failed to take off, \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d was an infamous bomb, while the \u201cMelania\u201d documentary \u2013 despite doing well for a doco \u2013 was seen as a flop mostly due to its high budget.<\/p>\n<p>The concern is that too many more fizzers and Amazon may pull back from theatrical in the way that Apple did following disappointments like \u201cArgylle\u201d.  In 2025, Apple only had one film in cinemas with \u201cF1\u201d and has nothing slated for this year.  Thus, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d needs to do well.<\/p>\n<p>Other big plays for the studio are the \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d this Summer, the cost-effective psychosexual thriller \u201cVerity\u201d starring Anne Hathaway, anjd the drama \u201cI Play Rocky\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios The Ryan Gosling-led \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d opens this weekend, riding on the high of strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-553004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}