'Project Hail Mary' sets early Philippine box office record with P29 million
MANILA, Philippines — "Project Hail Mary" starring Ryan Gosling is breaking and exceeding expectations at the box office left and right, including the Philippines.
The Amazon MGM-produced movie — distributed in the Philippines by Columbia Pictures — earned $140.9 million (P8.43 billion) in its opening weekend, including $80.5 million (P4.81 billion) in North America.
Internationally, the film made $60.4 million (P3.6 billion) in its first five days, the Filipino box office contributing P29,258,184.
That makes "Project Hail Mary" the biggest Hollywood opening weekend of 2026 in the Philippines yet, the highest-grossing film debut of the year globally and the biggest Hollywood original non-franchise film opening since 2023's "Oppenheimer."
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Gosling plays Ryland Grace, who wakes up from an induced coma with no memory of how he was left inside a spaceship stuck in a different solar system.
Grace slowly remembers a critical mission to save the Sun from microorganisms dimming it, posing a threat to Earth and possibly ending life within decades.
The reluctant astronaut is not alone as he encounters another being from another galaxy with the same problem, and together they work to figure out how to save their planets.
Directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller helm the project with Drew Goddard adapting the screenplay from Andy Weir's book of the same name, having done the same for 2015's "The Martian."
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