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It grossed over $700 million in theaters and proved that audiences will open up to hard science fiction. It reminded the world that Ryan Gosling can carry a movie. Coming to MGM+. ok, Project Hail Mary2026’s biggest sci-fi hit so far this year is coming to a subscription-only channel Fromon June 16. This flies in the face of pundit expectations that for sure, such a big hit will be on Amazon Prime Video, which, it should be noted, shares the same parent company as MGM+.
The Complicated Relationship Between MGM and Amazon
Regardless of the broadcast platform, Project Hail Mary it will be a hit when it becomes available. Based on Andy Weir’s novel of the same name, everyone has been waiting for this film ever since The Martianand based on Weir’s novel, turned into a blockbuster. The question was not “will this make money” but “how much?”
Money is the reason why Project Hail Mary headed to MGM. The studio wasn’t acquired by Amazon until 2022, two years after MGM paid $3 million for the rights Project Hail Mary and began pre-production work on the film. Both services are part of Amazon, but since the film directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord preceded the merger, it should stay with MGM. There are tax implications, independence concerns, which come down to keeping MGM projects away from Amazon, for now.
Ryan Gosling’s One Way Trip
Project Hail Mary it’s worth the airtime, and at $9.99 a month, it’s cheaper to stream with MGM+ than to pay for a digital rental with Prime Video. Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a teacher and molecular biologist on a suicidal journey to a distant star to help save humanity from the astrophage, a strange, featureless creature that is slowly killing the Sun. Along the way, he intercepts an alien ship, and the surviving crew member is like a pile of rocks, so Grace calls him “Rocky,” learns to communicate, and together, they begin to save their home planets.
That’s all you need to know about it Project Hail Mary when he enters, because like The Martianit is not as easy as it should be to complete the task. The two films have a lot in common, namely the use of hard science to drive the plot, characters who are more interested in using their brains to solve the problem instead of any kind of external conflict, and they are very good. With a 94 percent fresh critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 95 percent audience rating, it’s a rare movie that everyone loves the first time they see it.
Project Hail Mary it’s the kind of science fiction we desperately need from Hollywood. It’s smart, imaginative, and dares to be different by breaking the blockbuster mold. That’s why the streaming platform doesn’t care much about any other movie. MGM+ or Amazon Prime Video, it makes no difference, the audience will find it wherever it is and make it another streaming success.
