The Best Decade for Original Sci-Fi Has Found Its Successor Project Hail Mary has opened to $157 million globally, broken multiple box office records, and — more importantly — confirmed that the "Smart Sci-Fi" movement that defined cinema from 2010 to 2015 has fully returned. The films that defined that era — Inception , Interstellar , Gravity , Arrival , The Martian , Ex Machina — blended hard scientific concepts with philosophical depth and genuine crowd-pleasing entertai
