{"id":7988969,"date":"2026-03-28T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=7988969"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:20:32","slug":"project-hail-mary-second-weekend-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/creative-content\/movies\/project-hail-mary-second-weekend-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Project Hail Mary’ Is Still a Hot Ticket at Box Office With $53 Million Second Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary<\/a>” is still putting up excellent box office numbers in its second weekend. After making $14.6 million on Friday, industry estimates have the sci-fi blockbuster making $53 million in its second frame, which would give it a 10-day domestic total of approximately $163 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For comparison, the 2024 sci-fi hit “Dune: Part Two” earned a second weekend of $46.2 million with a two-weekend domestic total of $157.2 million. Depending on how the film holds in April against Universal\/Illumination’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” “Project Hail Mary” is on pace to meet or exceed the $282 million domestic run of Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed epic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lifted by a mix of excellent word-of-mouth around Ryan Gosling’s sterling lead performance and deep space imagery worthy of the biggest movie screen one can buy a ticket for, “Project Hail Mary” is set to become Amazon’s biggest theatrical hit ever in a year where it is making its debut as a full-time distributor. <\/p>\n\n\n

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By providing theaters with the March tentpole needed for a stable box office, “Hail Mary” is lifting overall grosses for the weekend to an estimated $96 million and should allow the first quarter of 2026 to finish with an overall domestic total in the vicinity of the $1.72 billion posted in the first quarter of 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disney\/Pixar’s “Hoppers” is also holding well in its fourth weekend with an estimated $11 million to bring its domestic total to $136 million, while the Indian import “Dhurandhar: The Revenge” is making an estimated $4.8 million for a two-weekend total of $22.8 million, enough to pass the $19.7 million total that the first “Dhurandhar” made last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the more lackluster side, Warner Bros.’ “They Will Kill You” earned an opening day of just $2.2 million from 2,778 locations, as industry estimates project a $4.6 million opening that puts it in a tie with the third weekend of Universal’s “Reminders of Him.” Reception for the bloody thriller starring Zazie Beetz has skewed positive but not overwhelmingly so, earning Rotten Tomatoes <\/a>scores of 67% critics and 79% audience along with a B- on CinemaScore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While not a major misfire for Warner on the level of “The Bride!,” which is already out of theaters with a global run of just $23.1 million against a reported $80 million budget before marketing, “They Will Kill You” is going to have to leg out just to post a modest theatrical profit against its reported $20 million budget. <\/p>\n\n\n

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