{"id":535827,"date":"2026-03-21T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:40:07","slug":"project-hail-mary-makes-12-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535827\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Project Hail Mary’ Makes $12 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRyan Gosling<\/a>\u2018s \u201cProject Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d is blasting off at the box office.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon MGM\u2019s sci-fi movie, based on author Andy Weir\u2019s popular novel, has made $12 million in previews at the box office, the biggest of the year so far. It beat the $7.8 million preview haul by \u201cScream 7,\u201d and it could overtake the horror movie for the highest box office opening of 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is projected to make between $63 million and $65 million in its opening weekend, which would make it Amazon MGM\u2019s biggest launch ever. The company\u2019s current opening record is held by the 2023 boxing movie \u201cCreed III\u201d with $58 million. With good reviews and positive word-of-mouth, the $200 million film could become the studio\u2019s first original blockbuster.<\/p>\n

\n\tGosling, who\u2019s already been to space in \u201cFirst Man\u201d and heading to a galaxy far, far away in \u201cStar Wars: Starfighter,\u201d plays high school teacher turned astronaut Ryland Grace in \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Ryland is tasked with saving Earth after the Sun is discovered to be dimming and causing a global cooling. Out in space, Ryland also meets a a five-legged alien named Rocky whom he befriends. The cast also includes Sandra Huller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, Milana Vayntrub and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d comes four years after tech giant Amazon acquired MGM Studios for $8 billion. There have been some financial wins for the studio, like \u201cCreed III\u201d and \u201cThe Beekeeper,\u201d but a lot of misses, like \u201cAfter the Hunt,\u201d \u201cMelania\u201d and \u201cCrime 101.\u201d However, with Amazon\u2019s $2.2 trillion market cap, the deep-pocketed company doesn\u2019t have to rely on its films to recoup their entire budgets, mainly just the marketing and distribution costs.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso opening this weekend is Searchlight\u2019s horror sequel, \u201cReady or Not 2: Here I Come.\u201d Samara Weaving returns to play a diabolical game of hide-and-seek, and she\u2019s joined by Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and more. It made $1.2 million in previews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling\u2018s \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is blasting off at the box office. Amazon MGM\u2019s sci-fi movie, based on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,155909,14069],"class_list":{"0":"post-535827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-project-hail-mary","10":"tag-ryan-gosling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}