DreamWorks and Universal’s The Wild Robot is box office king this weekend. It has come in way ahead of tracking estimates. Sitting at 98% for both critics and audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it has opened to a worldwide weekend of $35 million.
Second place goes to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which had a tiny fourth-week drop, compared to peers, of 37%. It added $16.3 million to the total $373 million haul. It just edged out Batman to become Burton’s second-highest-grossing movie. The highest? Alice In Wonderland.
In third place, it is a disappointing outcome for Transformers One. Last weekend it was below expectations, pulling in just $25 million. The second-week drop was a catastrophic 63% down to $9 million.
The big news is Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million-budget self-financed Megalopolis. It is cratering. It came in sixth place with a disastrous $4.1 million, divided critic scores and audiences hating it with a D+ Cinemascore. This is gonna cost him a lot of money.
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night had a limited opening on a selected few screens and pulled in a decent $51,000 per-screen average, which points to healthy box office prospects for this project.
Joker: Folix A Deux and Venom: The Last Dance are opening in the coming weeks to herald the beginning of the winter movie season that contains titles like Wicked, Moana 2, Gladiator II, Kraven The Hunter, Mufasa: The Lion King and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.