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Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 Million-Budgeted ‘Megalopolis’ Could Open to Disappointing $5 Million


Francis Ford Coppola's sci-fi epic "Megalopolis" is tracking to a disappointing $5 to $7 million box office debut.

1 spot in North America from “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” Tim Burton’s spooky sequel is the three-time box office champion, having emerged victorious over last weekend’s newcomer “Transformers One” in a surprisingly close battle. “The Wild Robot” cost $78 million, so it hopes to enjoy the staying power that benefitted post-pandemic animated family films such as Pixar’s “Elemental” and Illumination’s “Migration,” both of which continued to bring in audiences in the months after their debuts. Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge described “The Wild Robot” as “a gorgeous computer-generated cartoon with a human heart beating beneath its sleek, state-of-the-art surface.”

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