{"id":573604,"date":"2026-03-30T06:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573604\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:20:18","slug":"project-hail-mary-passes-300m-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573604\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221; Passes $300M At Box-Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/project-hail-mary-passes-300m-at-box-office.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-passes-300m-at-box-office.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"project-hail-mary-passes-300m-at-box-office\"\/><\/a>Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>Phil Lord and Chris Miller\u2019s \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d has remarkable staying power at the box-office.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon MGM Studios title is poised to take in an overseas second-weekend haul of $54.1 million, a stunning hold as it only dropped 5% from its launch weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, certain markets like UK, China, Mexico and Brazil saw attendance increases and the title was No. 1 in over 60 markets.<\/p>\n<p>Its gross nearly matches the domestic second weekend of $54.5 million, bringing the worldwide second weekend take to $108.6 million with $20.3 million of that from IMAX screens alone.<\/p>\n<p>That brings the movie up to a running total of $300.8 million after ten days, with around 20% coming from IMAX screens.<\/p>\n<p>The number makes it not only the top-grossing Amazon MGM Studios post-merger, beating \u201cCreed III\u201d with $276 million, but also the top-grossing Hollywood film of the year to date.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as it has been revealed that the red twinkly \u2018astrophage in space\u2019 scene in the film was created by combining tiny LEDs with chicken wire along with poured water in front of the lens for refraction and then shot with an Alexa LF camera minus its infrared filter (via <a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/project-hail-mary-cameras-and-aspect-ratios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Film School<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Back to box-office and Disney\u2019s \u201cHoppers\u201d isn\u2019t far behind total-wise.  The earlier opening animated feature now has a running worldwide total of $297.6 mnillion, with $37 million of that coming this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/box-office-global-project-hail-mary-hoppers-they-will-kill-you-1236768592\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios Phil Lord and Chris Miller\u2019s \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d has remarkable staying power at the box-office.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-573604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573604","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=573604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}