Project Hail Mary soars up a major box office chart, becoming the first movie to usurp James Cameron's blockbuster sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash.
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Project Hail Mary has emerged victorious in a box office battle between sci-fi titans.
2026's Project Hail Mary is an adaptation of Andy Weir's novel of the same name directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It stars Ryan Gosling as a molecular biologist turned middle school teacher who is sent to space to try and discover how to prevent the sun from being consumed. The movie has already broken several box office records, earning the best domestic debut of 2026 and the best debut for an Amazon MGM Studios release, in addition to being set to have one of the 10 smallest week 2 drops of all time for a non-franchise sci-fi movie. Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, Project Hail Mary is projected to end its sophomore weekend at the domestic box office with a 3-day total of $54.5 million, bringing its cumulative domestic total to $164.3 million. This sees it becoming the first 2026 release to climb to the top of the domestic chart for the year. The chart has been dominated for nearly three full months by James Cameron's 2025 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar: Fire and Ash, which earned $153.7 million at the domestic box office since the beginning of 2026. Previously, the movie that had come closest to unseating Avatar 3 was Pixar's Hoppers, which is set to hit a cumulative domestic total of $138.6 million by the end of the weekend.Enjoy ScreenRant's box office coverage? Click below to sign up for my weekly box office newsletter and get exclusive analysis, predictions, and more: 16 9.3/10 9/10 Project Hail Mary 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Like Follow Followed PG-13 Science Fiction Adventure Drama Release Date March 20, 2026 Runtime 156 Minutes Director Christopher Miller, Phil Lord Writers Drew Goddard, Andy Weir Producers Ryan Gosling, Amy Pascal, Andy Weir, Aditya Sood, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, Rachel O'Connor Cast See All
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