DreamWorks’ newest animated sensation, The Wild Robot, after winning over critics, is now doing the same with audiences. With an impressive 98% audience score and 98% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, the Chris Sanders-directed animated feature has grossed over $53 million globally in its opening weekend, including $35 million domestically, against a budget of $78 million.
According to Deadline, The Wild Robot has achieved the third-best opening for an animated project in September.
The movie exceeded debut projections from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which predicted that the Lupita Nyong’o starrer would open with $24-30 million.
If only the situation looked hopeful on the other side!
Unshockingly, Megalopolis has bombed at the box office. However, the word “bombed” seems to underrepresent the situation that the latest film from Francis Ford Coppola is actually in.
Megalopolis was made on a budget of $120 million and has managed to draw in only $4 million in its opening weekend. This is undoubtedly one of the lowest points in Coppola’s illustrious and legendary filmmaking career. Eli Roth’s Borderlands also had a budget of over $120 million, yet that piece of crap managed to collect over $8.5 million in its opening weekend.
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ranked third with minting over $16 million, taking its domestic total to $258.1 million, and global total collection to $373.3 million. Transformers One added $9 million to its collections, taking it to $72 million globally. This Chris Hemsworth starrer is all set to become the lowest-grossing Transformers movie of all time. Stay tuned for more updates.