Box Office: ‘Project Hail Mary’ Enjoys Epic Hold for $53M Weekend as ‘They Will Kill You’ Gets Murdered

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Project Hail Mary continues its out-of-this-world box office performance.

After earning $14.6 million on Friday, the Ryan Gosling-led movie — based on Andy Weir’s book — is on course to decline a scant 34 percent to $53.1 million to boast the best hold in recent memory for movies that opened in the same range, including Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (54 percent) and 2024’s Dune: Part 2 (44 percent).

That would put Project Hail Mary‘s worldwide cume well north of $200 million through Sunday, including an anticipated $137 million domestically and more than $100 million at the international box office.

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