# Matt Damon’s 142-Minute Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Soaring on Prime Video

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/matt-damons-142-minute-sci-fi-masterpiece-is-soaring-on-prime-video/
- Published: 2026-07-25T09:40:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-25T10:04:40+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/the-martian-streaming-success-prime-video-july-2026/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, TV

## Key points

- *The Martian* has entered Prime Video’s US top ten.
- Its resurgence follows *Project Hail Mary*’s success.
- The 2015 film earned $653 million worldwide.

## Summary

Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi film *The Martian*, starring Matt Damon, has become one of Prime Video’s ten most-streamed films in the United States. The renewed interest appears linked to the success of *Project Hail Mary*, another adaptation of an Andy Weir novel, underlining continuing audience appetite for accessible space-based dramas.

*The Martian* runs for 142 minutes and adapts Weir’s 2011 novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars. It was both critically praised and commercially successful on release, earning $653 million worldwide, including $228 million in North America and $425 million internationally.

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