‘The Wild Robot’ Soars to $35 Million Launch While ‘Megalopolis’ Crashes to $4 Million

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The Wild Robot
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Universal/DreamWorks’ “The Wild Robot” is showing it has the makings of a lengthy run at the box office, earning a solid $35 million domestic opening weekend from 3,982 theaters.

Given the recent struggles of animated films that are not sequels or based on a very popular IP, tracking for “The Wild Robot” was in the $20 million range. But exhibitor sources say that walk-up traffic has been strong this weekend as word of the film’s critical acclaim began to spread over the past week.

The film now has spectacular Rotten Tomatoes scores of 98% critics and audience to go with an A on CinemaScore.

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