‘Project Hail Mary’ Crosses $300 Million at Global Box Office to Become Amazon MGM’s Highest-Grossing Film, ‘They Will Kill You’ Flops With $5 Million, ‘Scream 7’ Passes $200 Million Mark

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary continued to swell in its second weekend with a Saturday of $22.7M, +55% for a 3-day of $54.5M, a great -32% hold.

via: Variety

“Project Hail Mary” is officially Amazon MGM‘s highest-grossing film ever.

The space odyssey has grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million from 86 markets this weekend. That easily tops the $276 million worldwide gross of 2023’s “Creed III,” which had previously been the company’s top earner (Amazon acquired MGM in 2022 for $8.5 billion).

“Project Hail Mary” stars Ryan Gosling as a high school teacher enlisted to save the world. It did particularly well this weekend in the United Kingdom ($6.3 million), China ($7.7 million), Australia ($3.8 million), South Korea ($3.3 million) and Germany ($3.4 million). Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed the film, which is based on a novel by Andy Weir. It carries a production budget of $200 million.

Top grossing theater for Project Hail Mary was the AMC Lincoln Square in NYC with $135K, followed by Regal Irvine Specturm, AMC Burbank, AMC Metreon in San Francisco, and Lincoln Square Cinema Bistro 22 in Bellevue, WA. The Mountain and the West overperformed in weekend 2. Top markets were LA, NYC, San Francisco, Toronto, Dallas Fort Worth, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston and Salt Lake City.

Disney and Pixar’s “Hoppers” also performed well internationally. The family film added $37 million globally to its haul this weekend, $24.8 million of which came from foreign markets. Its worldwide gross currently sits at $297.6 million and should cross the $300 million mark early next week. Pixar spent $150 million on the movie.

Elsewhere, Paramount’s “Scream 7” crossed the $200 million mark after earning $6.3 million globally this weekend. Its worldwide earnings stand at $204 million, which is a good result considering its $45 million budget.

Universal’s “Reminders of Him” added $9.6 million to its global total, bringing its haul to $69.4 million. The Colleen Hoover adaptation is shaping up to be a modest hit for the studio, which spent $25 million on the romantic drama. The novelist also wrote “Regretting You” and “It Ends With Us,” both of which inspired hit movies.

And pity poor Warner Bros. and New Line, which saw “They Will Kill You” collapse at the global box office with a paltry $9 million debut, $4 million of which came from 66 foreign markets. The film 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’la co-star in the film, which was directed and co-written by Kirill Sokolov. Nocturna Pictures, the genre label backed by David Ellison’s Skydance and “It” filmmakers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, co-financed the picture for $20M.

The movie had no PLFs (Premium Large Format) and played lightly in East, South and West with the Burbank, CA AMC the pic’s top grossing venue with around $15K. Diversity demos were 42% Caucasian, 25% Black, 21% Latino and 7% Asian-American. The 25-34 bunch was the biggest for the film with a 36% turnout.

Ellison has a deal in place to buy Warner Bros. 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, “They Will Kill You” isn’t the only recent horror film to struggle to draw crowds. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” cratered in its second weekend of release, earning $4 million to push the Searchlight Pictures production to a measly $16.3 million domestically.