“Project Hail Mary ”transcends the known cosmos with astounding week 2 take of $54.5 million at U.S. box office
“Project Hail Mary ”transcends the known cosmos with astounding week 2 take of $54.5 million at U.S. box office
Ryan ColemanSun, March 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM UTC
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Ryan Gosling in 'Project Hail Mary'Credit: Amazon MGM StudiosKey Points -
Ryan Gosling's Project Hail Mary had a strong week 2 showing at the box office, earning $54.5 million domestically and $108.6 million abroad.
The film is now 2026's highest-grossing film in the U.S., beating the likes of previous contenders Scream 7, Hoppers, and GOAT in just two weeks.
Horror comedy They Will Kill You opened to $5 million on an estimated $20 million budget, while next week, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's The Drama vies for the top spot.
Houston, we do not have a problem. Project Hail Mary is the weekend's undisputed box office champ – again.
The high-flying space odyssey from Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Cabin in the Woods screenwriter Drew Goddard, The Martian source author Andy Weir, and star Ryan Gosling achieved an easy lift off last week with an $80 million domestic and $141 million global premiere. This week, it decisively beat the dreaded sophomore slump with $54.5 million domestically and $108.6 million globally, per Comscore. That domestic figure represents a scant 32 percent week-to-week drop, where other recent successful premieres have seen week 2 drops of up to 60 and 70 percent.
Patricia Arquette, Tom Felton, David Viviers, Willie Ludik, and Gabe Gabriel in 'They Will Kill You'Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Project Hail Mary follows Gosling's Ryland Grace, an astronaut who awakens alone upon an interstellar ship light years away from Earth, to which he fights to return. In just two weeks, the film's $164.3 million domestic tally has earned it the No. 1 spot on the the year's highest earners in the U.S., beating Pixar's Hoppers, which released three weeks ago, and Scream 7, which released four weeks ago.
Hoppers tailed Project Hail Mary on this week's domestic leaderboard, as well, nabbing the No. 2 spot with a $12.2 million take. They Will Kill You, a horror comedy produced by It masterminds Andy and Barbara Muschietti, took bronze with a $5 million domestic premiere. At $9 million globally, the film is likely to recoup its estimated $20 million budget, but perhaps not the marketing and promotional costs that are generally excluded from those estimates.
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Elsewhere on the domestic and global top 10s, India's high voltage action flick Dhurandhar The Revenge continued slaying with a $32 million global take in week 2, making for an impressive $147.4 million gross.
Romantic drama Reminders of Him and action-horror sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come took the No. 5 and No. 6 spots domestically with a $4.7 million week three take and $4 million week two take, respectively. Not bad for Ready or Not 2, which was budgeted at an estimated $14 million and has racked up $23.4 million globally, but it doesn't seem poised to reach the same level of success as its predecessor.
Coming down the pike on next week's slate of new releases, A24's quirky wedding-gone-wrong picture The Drama packs the 1-2 punch of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson at the top of the bill. But with how things are going for Project Hail Mary, it has little chance of topping the box office charts.
Still, the fourth feature directorial effort from Norway's Kristoffer Borgli (the third in just four years) is one of the more notable indie releases as the first quarter of 2026 winds down. Also arriving in theaters are Annemarie Jacir's narrativized look at the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939, Palestine 36; the Amanda Peet romcom Fantasy Life; and Romanian wunderkind Radu Jude's latest oddity, Kontinental '25.
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