The Wild Robot Strides to Opening Weekend Success

There’s been a assortment of movies that came retired successful September, from nostalgic revivals and remakes to robot enactment and large passionateness projects. Closing retired the period are Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot and Lionsgate’s Megalopolis, both with sizable pre-release buzz down them, and betwixt the two, it’s the family-friendly flick that took location the day.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Wild Robot ended up overperforming successful its debut weekend. Glowing professional and assemblage reception has resulted successful a $35 cardinal home opening and $53.1 cardinal overall. The CG-animated movie starring Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal has had a batch of momentum and hype down it owing to its visuals and trailers, and it seems to person paid off, since the movie itself reportedly outgo $78 cardinal to make. According to expert Luis Fernando, the home opening besides succeeds Elemental’s $29 million home opening to go the biggest opening for a theatrical, archetypal animated movie during the COVID times.

Meanwhile, Megalopolis did beauteous rough. Francis Ford Coppola’s repeatedly controversial romanticist epic made a reported $4 cardinal domestically, little than its archetypal $5-7 cardinal projections. (And it mightiness really beryllium little than that.) At clip of writing, a planetary merchandise hasn’t been locked down, but the film’s existent show is different ding for Lionsgate, which has had a beauteous unsmooth tally astatine the movies, container office-wise. It doesn’t assistance that critics and audiences aren’t truly gelling with it: there’s some who get who Coppola is aiming for and tin find its agleam spots, but astir person travel retired of it not truly positively, which distributors reportedly fretted astir months agone earlier Lionsgate stepped in.

With September over, it’s present to determination close connected into October. While Salem’s Lot hits Max connected October 3, the large merchandise successful theaters connected Friday the 4th is Joker: Folie à Deux, along with chap fearfulness flicks Monster Summer and The Forest Hills. The pursuing week includes Hellboy: The Crooked Man on streaming (October 7) and Terrfier 3 (October 11), then Smile 2 on October 18.

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