A month after coming to digital, Project Hail Mary will debut on streaming next week. But it won’t be on Netflix, Hulu, or Peacock. It won’t even be on Prime Video, which is owned by the same company that made it. No, Project Hail Mary will debut exclusively on MGM+ starting June 18. Which seems odd, and certainly disappointing if you aren’t a subscriber, but is also understandable. You see, MGM is the company that produced and distributed the film, which stars Ryan Gosling and grossed almost $700 million worldwide. They put it together. They gambled on it. So, of course, they’d put it on their exclusive streamer first. Why not use the film’s good name and great reviews to get a few extra subscribers? Well, because at the same time, MGM is owned by Amazon. So many probably expected the film to debut on the parent company’s much larger streamer, Prime Video. It all goes to Jeff Bezos anyway, right? What this does, though, is allow Amazon to take another bite of the apple. Force Prime Video customers who want to watch the movie (and are already paying) to pay a little more and add MGM+ to their subscription, which lets them watch it in the Prime app. Or, of course, others can access it via their cable provider or its own app.