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Having celebrated a full month of release in theaters worldwide, Project Hail Mary is on the verge of passing a monumental box-office milestone. The sci-fi blockbuster has exceeded expectations so far and is poised to continue down this course for at least a few more weeks. It was recently confirmed that Amazon will delay its release on Prime Video in an effort to maximize the movie’s box-office potential and to encourage audiences to watch it the way it was intended. This week, Project Hail Mary is returning to IMAX screens for a one-week run after losing venues to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Credit where it’s due: Amazon isn’t jumping the gun this time. This simple extension has made it possible for the movie to hit the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office and potentially even challenge Dune: Part Two’s lifetime haul.
It has already overtaken the likes of Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron. This week, Project Hail Mary doubled the lifetime global box-office haul of another acclaimed sci-fi movie — a movie that was released five years before Netflix’s Stranger Things, with which it shares the same DNA. Both the movie in question and Netflix’s blockbuster series paid homage to Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter’s classic, and were centered around a group of suburban children who become involved in government conspiracies and shenanigans involving aliens.
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.
We’re talking, of course, about Super 8. Starring Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, and Kyle Chandler, the movie follows a group of friends who accidentally capture an alien while making a creature feature in their town. The movie was directed by J.J. Abrams — it was his first original feature — and it received positive reviews from critics. It now holds a “Certified Fresh” 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “It may evoke memories of classic summer blockbusters a little too eagerly for some, but Super 8 has thrills, visual dazzle, and emotional depth to spare.” The movie grossed $260 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million; Project Hail Mary, on the other hand, has grossed around $530 million globally against a reported budget of more than $200 million. The movie has greatly benefited from a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. Abrams is set to return this year with his first original film since Super 8, a new sci-fi spectacle titled The Great Beyond. 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.