Box Office: 'Megalopolis' Crumbles With $4 Million, 'The Wild Robot' Lands at No. 1 With $35 Million https://t.co/QoznHv6zAZ
— Variety (@Variety) September 29, 2024
The wildly popular The Wild Robot did wha the 40-year old Transformers franchise could not, and opens with 35$m*, making it the third best opening for an animated movie in September. Beetlejuice 2 has 16.3m$, but is on its way to becoming Burton's second highest grossing movie at the domestic BO.
Transformers One took a severe beating, getting 9$m in its second weekend. Ironic, as Robot moved to avoid competition with it, turns out, it WAS the competition. Devara Part 1 had less theaters than Megaolopis and still opened higher with 6.4m$.
Megalopolis, Liongate's FIFTH movie and arguably 4th flop, both in 2 months, opens less than its expected numbers with 4m$.* Hey, Deadline says, 29% of you went bc of Adam Driver, good on ya.
*About 40 theaters across major chains in the SouthEast were shut down Thursday and Friday due to Hurricane Helena AND Regal had ticketing issues on Saturday. 'Robot' could have made about 2m more, and 'Megaopolis' could have made another 53.78$
ICYMI:
- According to Fandango, 2 hours and 40 minutes is the runtime of Wicked Part 1.
This week has Joker: Folie á Deux , Monster Summer, and White Bird: A Wonder Story.
