Worldwide Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary debuted to an awesome $140.9M. That’s the biggest global debut so far in 2026 for an MPA title, head of Paramount/Spyglass’ Scream 7 global launch of $97M+. Yes, big win for a non-franchise movie, which is what the industry needs, and it’s also a solid start against Project Hail Mary‘s net $190M production, but we’re hearing this is playing like a family movie around the world (the Ryan Gosling movie took the wind out of Hoppers‘ domestic sails a bit — that Pixar movie was expected to post a 3rd weekend between $20M-$21M and came in at $18M).
The overall international weekend estimate is $60.4M from 82 markets, which reps 90% of the offshore footprint.
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On a like-for-like basis excluding China, the opening weekend is on par with Interstellar and Dune. This marks only the fourth
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