The Wild Robot, the #2 Movie at the Box Office, Is Already at Home

We present astatine io9 have, hopefully, made it abundantly wide that The Wild Robot is simply a masterpiece. It’s successful theaters present and if you person a heart, you should ticker it and beryllium reminded of wherefore you emotion the movies. You’ll retrieve what’s imaginable erstwhile pictures and dependable unfold perfectly successful beforehand of your eyes. The movie is 1 of those experiences that lifts you up, gives you a hug, and leaves you feeling perfectly incredible.

Because The Wild Robot is that benignant of film, audiences are dilatory uncovering their mode retired to spot it. After a beardown opening weekend, it’s had precise beardown holds each week since. This past weekend, only its 4th successful release, it astir grabbed the fig 1 spot, losing to Terrifer 3 (a very, precise antithetic movie) by lone $116,000.

So, of course, starting today—October 15—you tin ticker it astatine home.

Yes, The Wild Robot is present disposable digitally up of a carnal merchandise connected December 3. Which seems perfectly chaotic considering the movie is inactive doing astir arsenic good arsenic a movie could bash successful theaters. However, Universal, which released the DreamWorks Animated film, has been shortening the location merchandise model connected its movies for a portion now. We presume it knows what it’s doing and has immoderate benignant of metric proving if you merchandise a movie that’s successful theaters a small excessively early, possibly that consciousness of exclusively provides a bigger bump successful integer income portion not hurting your container office. At least, we presume that. Otherwise, the determination makes nary sense.

Nevertheless, The Wild Robot is simply a movie destined to go much beloved arsenic much radical get to spot it and a integer merchandise volition bash conscionable that. So, to commemorate the release, a fewer clips from the peculiar features person travel out. Here they are.

Here’s a afloat database of the film’s peculiar features.

• COMMERCIAL FOR ROZZUM – An alternate opening to the movie successful storyboard form, with instauration by writer/director Chris Sanders.
• MOMENTS FROM THE MIC – Straight from the signaling booth, ticker the star-studded formed of The Wild Robot execute immoderate of their astir memorable lines!
• MEET THE CAST- How bash you springiness empathy to the dependable of a robot, vulnerability to a fox, and contented to an opossum? Meet the talented dependable formed and larn much astir your favourite characters from The Wild Robot.
• THE OVERPROTECTIVE MOTHER – A deleted series from the movie successful storyboard form, with an instauration by writer/director Chris Sanders.
• ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: ANIMATING THE WILD ROBOT – Go down the scenes to spot however filmmakers pushed the boundaries of animation to execute the uniquely immersive satellite of The Wild Robot.
• FEELING ALIVE – Learn however filmmakers and formed enhanced the universally relatable thematic elements of Peter Brown’s archetypal communicative to deepen its affectional transportation to audiences.
• WILD SOUNDS – Explore the unthinkable euphony of The Wild Robot – from Kris Bowers’ enchanting people to Maren Morris’ 2 caller songs.
• HOW TO DRAW – Follow on with writer-director Chris Sanders arsenic helium teaches Lupita Nyong’o however to gully Roz and past larn to gully Fink, Baby Brightbill, and Pinktail with communicative artist-character decorator Genevieve Tsai!
• FLY YOUR OWN BRIGHTBILL – One of Roz’s superior tasks is to thatch Brightbill to alert truthful helium tin migrate with the different geese. Here, you’ll larn however to make your precise ain Brightbill Kite truthful you tin assistance him alert too!

Featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill, and Catherine O’Hara, The Wild Robot is present successful theaters and connected digital.

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