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Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Project Hail Mary” has remarkable staying power at the box-office.
The Amazon MGM Studios title is poised to take in an overseas second-weekend haul of $54.1 million, a stunning hold as it only dropped 5% from its launch weekend.
In fact, certain markets like UK, China, Mexico and Brazil saw attendance increases and the title was No. 1 in over 60 markets.
Its gross nearly matches the domestic second weekend of $54.5 million, bringing the worldwide second weekend take to $108.6 million with $20.3 million of that from IMAX screens alone.
That brings the movie up to a running total of $300.8 million after ten days, with around 20% coming from IMAX screens.
The number makes it not only the top-grossing Amazon MGM Studios post-merger, beating “Creed III” with $276 million, but also the top-grossing Hollywood film of the year to date.
The news comes as it has been revealed that the red twinkly ‘astrophage in space’ scene in the film was created by combining tiny LEDs with chicken wire along with poured water in front of the lens for refraction and then shot with an Alexa LF camera minus its infrared filter (via No Film School).
Back to box-office and Disney’s “Hoppers” isn’t far behind total-wise. The earlier opening animated feature now has a running worldwide total of $297.6 mnillion, with $37 million of that coming this weekend.
Source: Deadline
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