{"id":364532,"date":"2026-03-29T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/364532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:59:07","slug":"ryan-goslings-project-hail-mary-tops-box-office-with-54-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/364532\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ Tops Box Office With $54.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d easily topped the box office for the second consecutive weekend, bringing in a heavenly $54.5 million. There have been hits in 2026, such as \u201cScream 7\u201d and \u201cHoppers,\u201d but \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is shaping up to be the year\u2019s first true blockbuster, having already earned $164.3 million domestically.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d only dropped 32% from its debut weekend, signaling the film will have staying power. Its impressive results are welcome news for Amazon MGM, which is investing heavily in theatrical movies<\/a> by committing to releasing roughly a dozen films in cinemas annually. The move comes after Amazon MGM struggled to define its moviemaking ambitions, first focusing on indie productions, then pivoting to streaming premieres before more recently opting to back populist fare geared for the big screen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d also confirms Ryan Gosling<\/a>\u2018s box office bona fides. The Oscar-nominated \u201cBarbie\u201d and \u201cLa La Land\u201d star is front-and-center in the movie as a school teacher on a desperate mission to save the planet. The film rises or falls on Gosling\u2019s lead performance and he\u2019s being rewarded with one of the biggest hits of his career, as well as some early awards chatter. Then there\u2019s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who recovered from being fired<\/a> from \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story\u201d to deliver a crowd-pleaser that proves they can handle live-action space epics quite nicely, thank you very much. To say nothing of Andy Weir, the writer behind \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d and \u201cThe Martian,\u201d whose books have now inspired two box office winners. His next novel is almost certain to spark a bidding war for the movie rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe weekend\u2019s only major new release, \u201cThey Will <\/a>Kill You,\u201d was D.O.A., earning an anemic $5 million domestically from 2,778 locations for a third-place finish. The Warner Bros. and New Line release only cost $20 million to produce, but it\u2019s still a dreadful result because studios have to split ticket sales with theater owners. Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy helped put \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d in motion when they ran MGM. Having left the studio to lead Warner Bros., they enjoyed a hot streak at the box office last year, with the likes of \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d and \u201cWeapons\u201d scoring commercially. But 2026 is off to a rough start for De Luca and Abdy. \u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d arrives just a few weeks after \u201cThe Bride,\u201d the studio\u2019s $90 million steampunk reimagining of \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein,\u201d bombed, earning a disastrous $23.2 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d stars Zazie Beetz as a housekeeper hired to clean a high-rise apartment with a history of mysterious disappearances. Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham, Tom Felton and Myha\u2019la co-star in the film, which was directed and co-written by Kirill Sokolov. Nocturna Pictures, the genre label backed by David Ellison\u2019s Skydance and \u201cIt\u201d filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, co-financed the picture. Ellison has a deal in place to buy Warner Br<\/a>os. and merge it with Paramount, which he bought last year. For Warner executives, it helps that their potential new boss is partially responsible for their latest flop. Plus, \u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d isn\u2019t the only recent horror film to struggle to draw crowds. \u201cReady or Not 2: Here I Come\u201d cratered in its second weekend of release, earning $4 million to push the Searchlight Pictures production to a measly $16.3 million domestically.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney and Pixar\u2019s \u201cHoppers\u201d captured second place for the weekend, taking in another $12.2 million. Through its first four weeks of release, the family film is projected to gross $138.6 million in North America and $297.6 million worldwide. \u201cDhurandhar 2: The Revenge,\u201d a Bollywood thriller, came in fourth with $4.7 million, pushing its domestic total to a muscular $22.8 million and nearly outpacing \u201cThey Will Kill You\u201d despite the fact that it was showing on almost 2,000 fewer screens.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Friday top five was \u201cReminders of Him\u201d with $4.7 million domestically, bringing its gross to $41.1 million. Universal produced the adaptation of Colleen Hoover\u2019s romantic novel to the tune of $25 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn limited release, Focus Features premiered \u201cThe AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,\u201d a look at the risks and potential of artificial intelligence from the filmmakers behind \u201cNavalny\u201d and \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once.\u201d It grossed $650,000 in 786 locations. Neon also debuted \u201cAlpha,\u201d a body horror film from \u201cTitane\u2019s\u201d Julia Ducournau that earned just over $121,000 from 218 screens. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal also revived 2001\u2019s \u201cThe Mummy Returns.\u201d The adventure film grossed $600,000 from 1,300 venues, pushing its total to $202.7 million. The studio is rebooting the franchise and enlisting original stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for a new sequel. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d should soon have company in the blockbuster club. Next weekend brings \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,\u201d Universal and Illumination\u2019s latest collaboration with Nintendo, which is expected to be one of 2026\u2019s biggest hits. For exhibitors, it will extend a strong start to the year, with ticket sales already up more than 25%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d easily topped the box office for the second consecutive weekend, bringing in a heavenly $54.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,86964,20672,122106],"class_list":{"0":"post-364532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-project-hail-mary","13":"tag-ryan-gosling","14":"tag-they-will-kill-you"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}