Project Hail Mary, the Ryan Gosling-led sci-fi blockbuster that became one of the year’s most unlikely commercial triumphs, is heading to streaming. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed the film will debut exclusively on MGM+ on June 18 — nearly three months after its theatrical release — in a distribution strategy that bypasses the studio’s better-known Prime Video platform, at least initially.
The move reflects a deliberate business decision within Amazon’s streaming infrastructure: Project Hail Mary was greenlit under a model that routes certain films through full theatrical windows, with MGM+ serving as the first streaming stop before Prime Video. Amazon adopted the same approach with American Fiction in 2024, which landed on Prime Video weeks after its MGM+ debut, suggesting a similar path for Hail Mary.
The film hit PVOD on May 12, making June 18 its subscription streaming premiere. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and adapted by Drew Goddard from Andy Weir’s bestselling novel, the story follows Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher who wakes aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.
The film’s journey to streaming caps a remarkable theatrical run. Project Hail Mary opened to $80.5 million domestically and $140.9 million worldwide, setting a record as the biggest opening in Amazon MGM history and the largest debut of 2026 at the time of release. It dropped just 32% in its second weekend — a stronger hold than Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two — earning an A on CinemaScore with near-universal approval across age and gender demographics.
The film ended its theatrical run as 2026’s third-highest-grossing movie, surpassing The Martian to become the highest-grossing Andy Weir adaptation ever. Its final worldwide gross sits at approximately $677 million against a $200 million production budget.
Critics and audiences pointed to Gosling’s performance, the film’s visual scale, and the central friendship between Grace and the alien Rocky as the key drivers of its word-of-mouth momentum. It holds a 94% critics’ score and 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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MGM+ is also the current home of the series From, and the platform previously used the same exclusive window strategy for Spider Noir. Whether Project Hail Mary crosses over to Prime Video on a similarly short timeline remains unconfirmed, though the precedent suggests it will.
