{"id":360419,"date":"2026-03-23T05:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360419\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:39:08","slug":"amazon-mgm-studios-project-hail-mary-rockets-to-the-top-of-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360419\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios&#8217; &#8216;Project Hail Mary&#8217; rockets to the top of the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ryan Gosling-led \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2026-03-18\/project-hail-mary-review-ryan-gosling-sandra-huller-phil-lord-chris-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a big win for Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>\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<p>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 <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2026-03-04\/with-hoppers-pixar-looks-for-boost-to-its-original-animated-films\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ryan Gosling-led \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d rocketed to the top of the box office this weekend, marking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10054,1351,2478,289,321,82522,163084,93,1043,61,163083,60,4911,83643,9772,16362,689,425,43960],"class_list":["post-360419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-andy-weir","tag-box-office","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-dhurandhar","tag-domestic-theatrical-distribution","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-indian-action-film","tag-ireland","tag-novel","tag-project-hail-mary","tag-rocket","tag-theater","tag-top","tag-u-s","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}