New York– New York (AP) – “Project Hail Mary” It remained strong in its second weekend with $54.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, adding to its long-term potential as the year’s biggest hit so far.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s sci-fi adventure starring Ryan Gosling dropped just 32% after notching The best non-franchise opening weekend From “Oppenheimer” of 2023. Amazon MGM’s “Project Hail Mary” has grossed $300.8 million worldwide in two weeks.
“Project Hail Mary”, which cost approximately $200 million to produce, did not face any significant new competition and largely kept premium format screens to itself. Potentially the most watched movie of the weekend, Kpop documentary “BTS: The Return,” Went straight to streaming on Netflix.
But “Project Hail Mary” is on a darker trajectory. Its second weekend holding was even better than “Oppenheimer”, which collected $46.7 million in its follow-up frame.
Meanwhile, the weekend’s top new releases, “They will kill you,” It opened with a disappointing $5 million for Warner Bros. Zazie Beetz plays a woman who applies to be a maid at an apartment complex where she must perform a sacrifice in this bloody R-rated horror film.
Although the result was not disastrous for a film with a modest budget of $20 million, it did suggest that theaters could be filled with horror. David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm FranchiseRe, said a new horror film has been released every weekend for the past 14 weekends.
That includes last week’s “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” ($16.3 million domestically so far) and another horror-comedy, which opened this weekend. IFC’s “Forbidden Fruits,” about a group of witches working in a Texas mall, opened with $1.2 million in sales.
Despite the glut, Gross estimates that horror films will account for about $2.1 billion in North American ticket revenues in 2026, down from $2.75 million last year. Although horror remains popular with audiences and is relatively cheap to produce, the genre can become hyperbolic.
Meanwhile, family films are thriving. pixar original “Hoppers” It finished second with $12.2 million in its fourth weekend. The Walt Disney Company release has grossed $297.6 million globally.
However, next weekend it will face stiff competition in Universal Pictures’ “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” It is expected that this will be the biggest opening of 2026.
This list takes into account estimated ticket sales at US and Canadian theaters from Friday to Sunday, with final domestic figures released on Monday, according to comScore:
1. “Project Hail Mary,” $54.5 million.
2. “Hoppers,” $12.2 million.
3. “They’ll Kill You,” $5 million.
4. “Dhurandhar The Revenge,” $4.8 million.
5. “Reminders of Him,” $4.7 million.
6. “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” $4 million.
7. “Scream 7,” $2.6 million.
8. “Goat,” $2.2 million.
9. “Undertones,” $1.7 million.
10. “Forbidden Fruit,” $1.2 million.
