Amazon MGM Studios' 'Project Hail Mary' rockets to the top of the box office

The Ryan Gosling-led “Project Hail Mary” rocketed to the apical of the container bureau this weekend, marking a large triumph for Amazon MGM Studios.

The movie — which stars Gosling arsenic a subject teacher who embarks connected a abstraction ngo to prevention humanity — hauled successful $80.5 cardinal successful the U.S. and Canada, making it the biggest home debut of the twelvemonth truthful far. Globally, “Project Hail Mary” brought successful $140.9 million.

The movie is an adaptation of a caller by Andy Weir, writer of “The Martian” — different palmy book-to-screen adventure. The large opening play for “Project Hail Mary” is simply a boost for Amazon MGM Studios, which had heavy promoted the movie arsenic an illustration of the large blockbusters it could produce.

“We judge profoundly successful the Hail Mary, and it’s wide audiences bash arsenic well,” Kevin Wilson, caput of home theatrical organisation for Amazon MGM Studios, said successful a statement. “What we’re seeing successful theaters —the energy, the exit scores, the connection of rima — is everything we believed this movie would deliver.”

Walt Disney Co. and Pixar’s “Hoppers” came successful 2nd astatine the container bureau this play with a home full of $18 million. The archetypal animated movie has present garnered $120.4 cardinal successful the U.S. and Canada since it debuted successful theaters earlier this month.

Indian enactment movie “Dhurandhar The Revenge” came successful 3rd with $10 million, followed by Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures’ fearfulness movie “Ready oregon Not 2: Here I Come” and Universal Pictures’ romance “Reminders of Him” rounding retired the apical five.