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Hot off another weekend at the worldwide box office during which it exceeded expectations, the sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary is soaring toward a massive new milestone. In its fifth weekend of release, the film added another $41 million globally, of which approximately $20 million came from domestic theaters. It held off this week’s major new release, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, to retain the number-two spot on the domestic chart behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Project Hail Mary delivered yet another solid hold, benefiting from a one-week-only re-release in IMAX 70mm. The film has generated nearly $100 million worldwide in the IMAX format alone.
Starring Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary serves as the directorial comeback of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, whose last feature film was released more than a decade ago. In the intervening years, they began working on Solo: A Star Wars Story but were fired from the project due to creative differences. Project Hail Mary continues their golden run as filmmakers, after The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street and its sequel, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It’s by far their biggest hit, in addition to being one of the highest-rated major releases in recent memory. Project Hail Mary holds a “Certified Fresh” 94% critics’ score and a “Verified Hot” 96% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
With $285 million domestically and $573 million worldwide against a reported budget of more than $200 million, Project Hail Mary will soon surpass the $300 million and $600 million milestones. This weekend, it overtook the $282 million domestic gross of Denis Villeneuve’s fellow contemporary sci-fi masterpiece Dune: Part Two. Starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, among others, Dune: Part Two grossed more than $700 million worldwide and is currently sitting at a 92% critics’ score and a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. A highly anticipated third installment, Dune: Part Three, is slated for release in November and is expected to outperform its predecessor at the box office. Project Hail Mary is also on track to surpass the $700 million milestone worldwide, thanks to Amazon’s decision to delay its Prime Video debut. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Based on the novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), Project Hail Mary is an action-adventure sci-fi film that stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who must save Earth from an oncoming ice age by heading to a faraway galaxy.