{"id":81670,"date":"2026-03-22T16:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81670"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:40:31","slug":"a-movie-called-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/a-movie-called-hail-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Movie Called &#8216;Hail Mary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/project-hail-mary-movie-review-56616d8903dbd5c4339e1ca193e62013\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn\u2019t seen for a non-franchise film since\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oppenheimer-box-office-success-christopher-nolan-imax-413bc36ac6ae68f422c06c9b1cc0ab0a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">\u201cOppenheimer.\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that translates into about 5 million ticket buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The PG-13 rated film opened on 4,007 screens and easily topped the domestic box office charts, surpassing expectations to become the biggest of the year and delivering a record opening for studio Amazon MGM, whose previous best was \u201cCreed III\u201d ($58 million in 2023). Not accounting for inflation, \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d also scored the second biggest opening for a non-franchise movie behind only\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-box-office-3ff25c0a3acf7b568866c2ff307d0108\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">\u201cOppenheimer,\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0which opened to $82.4 million in 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774197631\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"A Movie Called &#8216;Hail Mary&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d\u00a0is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn\u2019t seen for a non-franchise film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}