Project Hail Mary is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film became available on Friday, July 3, fifteen weeks after its theatrical debut in March 2026.
The Ryan Gosling sci-fi film earned a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and made $683.5 million worldwide, according to Screen Rant. That performance made it the highest-grossing Amazon movie of all time and the third highest-grossing film of the year so far. Domestic and international ticket sales were roughly even.
The road to streaming was longer and more complicated than most releases. MGM Amazon Studios generally moves its films from theaters to Prime Video on a faster schedule, but Project Hail Mary's strong box office numbers extended its theatrical run. About a month after its release, MGM stretched the initial theatrical window due to consistently high ticket sales. Nearly eight weeks after opening, the film became available through Premium Video on Demand but continued to play in theaters.
In total, the film held a 90-day theatrical window. That standard was common before 2020 but has largely been replaced by a 45-day window in the years since.
Even after the theatrical run ended, the film did not go straight to Prime Video. It first appeared on MGM+, an Amazon Prime add-on service. A Deadline report explained that Project Hail Mary was greenlit with MGM+ contracted as its pay-one streaming home, meaning the film was always set to premiere there following its theatrical window before moving to Prime. Films that go directly from theaters to Prime Video operate under a different financial model.
The film was directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the team behind the Spider-Verse films. Drew Goddard adapted the screenplay from Andy Weir's 2021 novel of the same name. The story follows a science teacher who wakes up alone in space and slowly pieces together his mission to save Earth's sun from destruction.
Project Hail Mary joins The Martian on Prime Video, another film based on an Andy Weir novel. That 2015 film also followed a lone scientist navigating survival in space.
