“Wild Robot” grosses just under $2 million, “Megalopolis” opens with $770,000 – box office preview

DreamWorks Animation/Universal's The wild robot extrapolated $1.95 million yesterday from the screenings, which began at 2 p.m. in 3,000 cinemas.

The Lupita Nyong'o-dubbed film is expected to top the box office with a gross of over $20 million, and this preview gross suggests it will be higher given previous DWA competition as Trolls band together ($1.3 million), which resulted in an opening day of $9.3 million and an opening day of $30 million, and the value is higher The bad guys That brought in $1.15 million in previews, an opening day of $7.98 million and an opening price of $23.9 million.

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Lionsgate's release of Francis Ford Coppola/Zoetrope's self-financed $120 million project Megalopolis did $770,000 This also includes the live Imax event on Monday. We told you that alone brought in around $300,000. No one expects this film to do well, as the box office grosses are between $5 and $7 million. Obviously a big loss as the red ink fell on the owner of the Coppola winery. Thursday night exits are already poor, with half a star and 45% positive on PostTrak – not many big star films can do that. What is worth celebrating is that the 85-year-old award-winning filmmaker, who has won five Oscars, is seeing his cinematic dream reach theaters and not be sidelined and lost in streaming. Lionsgate doesn't have a skin in the game; They are simply the distributor while Coppola covers the marketing costs. Sources tell me Lionsgate, no matter how bad Megalopolis will walk away with a distribution fee of between $3 million and $5 million.

We've heard that Imax is the aorta of this film with the most pre-sales for large format screenings.

Who was there last night for the dystopian epic Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight and Nathalie Emmanuel? Most of the audience is men at 69% and a young audience at 64% is under 25 years old. The best marks, if you can call it that, were given by women over 25 (23% of the crowd), who gave 50%. The critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 50% Rotten. More…

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