News Analysis · Box Office · May 11, 2026
Project Hail Mary crossed $655M worldwide. What the TVI Score measures.
The worldwide box office milestone is a commercial fact. The 179/200 TVI Score is a separate analysis of the film. It is not a forecast of ticket sales.
Reported facts
The $655 million figure was a worldwide gross threshold, not a domestic one. The Numbers separates the film's North American, international, and worldwide grosses on its title record.
Source: The Numbers: Project Hail Mary box office record
Amazon MGM identifies the film as an adaptation of Andy Weir's 2021 best-selling novel. It is therefore inaccurate to describe the film as having no pre-existing intellectual property.
TVI analysis: what 179/200 measures
The two measurements answer different questions. The gross records ticket revenue. The TVI Score records a human assessment of the film across Cognitive Stimulation, Educational Value, and Craft & Quality. The score cannot identify why any person bought a ticket.
Cognitive Stimulation, 46/50. The amnesia structure makes discovery part of the plot's architecture. Information arrives as Ryland Grace reconstructs his mission.
Educational Value, 44/50. The assessment credits the film's sustained use of biology, physics, astrobiology, and scientific problem-solving. It is not a claim that watching produces a learning outcome.
Craft & Quality, 44/50. The film controls what it reveals and what it asks the audience to reconstruct. That formal discipline is the basis of the craft score.
Where this fits in the database
See it ranked among the best sci-fi titles in the database, strongest 2026 releases, or the full Masterclass-tier list.
The methodology page explains how the rubric is constructed and weighted. The /iq-score/ hub explains what an IQ Score is.
See the full Project Hail Mary score breakdown
Cognitive Stimulation, Educational Value, Craft & Quality, three dimensions, weighted, with the rationale published openly.
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