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Project Hail Mary Targets $100M Opening, Ready or Not 2 Trails

March 20, 2026

The global box office is gearing up for one of its most competitive weekends of the year, with four new wide releases entering the fray — but all eyes are firmly on Project Hail Mary, which is poised to dominate the charts with a projected $100M+ worldwide opening. Launching across a massive 4,007 theaters, the sci-fi epic arrives with both scale and momentum on its side. Unless something dramatically shifts in the final hours, the film is expected to comfortably dethrone Hoppers, last weekend’s chart-topper, which pulled in $28.66 million and is set to cross the $100 million domestic mark. The transition at the top feels inevitable — not just...

CINEMA TRADE ANALYSIS

Malaysia Makes Its Case as…

March 19, 2026

As global film and television production increasingly shifts toward Asia, Malaysia is making a calculated push to position itself as the region’s next major production hub. At Hong Kong Filmart, the country used its platform to spotlight a combination of...