Here are words I don't regularly get to say: original blockbusters are presently on a roll. In the last two weeks, Daniel Chong's Hoppers has been the number one movie at the domestic box office (the best performance for an original feature produced by Pixar since Lee Unkrich's Coco in 2017), and now we get to appreciate the big numbers put up by Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Project Hail Mary in its opening weekend, which has stolen the animated film's box office crown.
To be fair, we're talking about a work featuring the star power of Ryan Gosling, made by the filmmakers behind the acclaimed Spider-Verse movies, and adapted from a book by the author of The Martian, so this news isn't terribly surprising. At the same time, it's certainly a win worth celebrating... while also being sad that the other big new wide release of the weekend – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come – was unfairly overshadowed. You can check out the full Top 10 in the chart below and join me after for analysis.
