“Project Hail Mary” is the hottest ticket in town, and it’s got the receipts to prove it.
The Ryan Gosling-led film about a middle school science teacher sent to outer space to save humanity is breaking records right and left. “Project Hail Mary” raked in $80.5 million domestically and more than $140 million worldwide during its opening weekend, making the biggest opening ever for Amazon MGM.
The incredible reviews and word of mouth recommendations helped the film, which is based on Andy Weir’s novel of the same name, outperform high expectations. Currently, the movie has a 95% critic’s rating and 96% audience score on review aggregator <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/project_hail_mary">Rotten Tomatoes</a>.
Fans are especially excited that the non-franchise film is heartwarming, family friendly, smart, non-woke, original, and reminiscent of how movies used to be.
Amazon MGM took a real gamble on this one, building physical sets and using a real rock-shaped puppet rather than relying on green screens and CGI to create the look and feel. This all meant spending a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-goddard-project-hail-mary-high-potential-1236540318/#:~:text=Project%20Hail%20Mary%20came%20with,down%20swinging%20with%20this%20movie.%E2%80%9D">reported</a> $248 million, the most on any of the studio’s films to date. But it was worth it and audiences are responding to that authenticity in a big way.
“Project Hail Mary” was the first live-action project in 12 years for directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who were famously fired from the “Star Wars” spinoff “Solo.”
“It did seem like a crazy idea to make a movie with the hunkiest actor of his generation and a rock puppet,” Lord <a href="https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/entertainment/ap-ent-film-project-hail-mary-1st-ld-writethru">said</a> in a joint interview with Miller. “I guess we’re interested in difficult things.”
Screenwriter Drew Goddard was nominated for an Oscar for his adaptation of Weir’s other sci-fi novel “The Martian” (2015).
Part of “Project Hail Mary” gaining so much traction so quickly comes from social media recommendations, which were going strong all weekend.
“Took the wife and kids to see Project Hail Mary. We all really enjoyed it,” Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/2035403288154120599?s=43">said</a> of the film. “Its greatest achievement is that it’s an actual family movie. Not too babyish for adults and not too grown up for the kids. Reminds me of the PG movies they used to make all the time in the 80s and 90s. Very much a spiritual descendent of ET. Maybe Hollywood will take the hint and start making real family films again.”

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