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Now in its fourth weekend of release, the sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary is refusing to lose momentum. The film has already overtaken a handful of past sci-fi blockbusters over the last few weeks, and will continue to do so in the weeks to come. A few days ago, it overtook the $228 million domestic gross of its spiritual precursor The Martian, also based on a bestseller by Andy Weir. Directed by **Ridley Scott **and starring Matt Damon, *The Martian *was critically acclaimed and massively successful at the box office in 2015. It grossed $630 million worldwide — a benchmark that Project Hail Mary has yet to cross — and received seven Oscar nominations.
This weekend, Project Hail Mary is poised to pass the coveted $500 million milestone worldwide. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the movie stars Ryan Gosling as a schoolteacher sent on an intergalactic mission to save the world. Project Hail Mary exceeded expectations in its theatrical debut, boosted by near-unanimous praise from critics and audiences. It currently holds a “Certified Fresh” 94% critics’ score and a “Verified Hot” 96% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is turning out to be Amazon MGM Studios what F1 was to Apple Studios last year, in that it’s technically a streaming movie that has done exceedingly well in theaters, especially in the IMAX format.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
With nearly $240 million at the domestic box office so far, Project Hail Mary has overtaken the likes of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. It has also doubled the lifetime domestic gross of*** Bumblebee***, the highest-rated installment of the live-action Transformers series. Directed by Travis Knight, whose Masters of the Universe movie is around the corner, Bumblebee grossed $127 million domestically and $467 million worldwide against a reported budget of $135 million. It now holds a “Certified Fresh” 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Bumblebee proves it’s possible to bring fun and a sense of wonder back to a bloated blockbuster franchise — and sets up its own slate of sequels in the bargain.” Starring Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena, it was followed by a soft reboot titled Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, whose underperformance has left the franchise in limbo. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Drew Goddard, Andy Weir
Aditya Sood, Amy Pascal, Andy Weir, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, Rachel O’Connor, Ryan Gosling
Based on the novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), Project Hail Mary is an action-adventure sci-fi film that stars Ryan Gosling as an astronaut who must save Earth from an oncoming ice age by heading to a faraway galaxy.