Amazon MGM Makes Blood Oath to Theater Owners of 15 Movies Per Year: 'Project Hail Mary' Was 'Just the Beginning'

Apr 15, 2026 9:05pm PT

Amazon MGM Makes Blood Oath to Theater Owners of 15 Movies Per Year: ‘Project Hail Mary’ Was ‘Just the Beginning’

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“Project Hail Mary” and its $525 million dollar global box office haul was not a fluke, Amazon MGM Studios swore on a stack of James Bond novels in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.

The tech monolith’s film arm took the main stage at CinemaCon — the annual gathering of movie theater owners — to present its upcoming film slate, and to say definitively that the company is dead serious about its planned $1 billion annual spend on movies for theaters.

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