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Megalopolis flops at weekend box office as family film The Wild Robot soars to top spot with $35 million


Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed epic Megalopolis flopped, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film The Wild Robot soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office.

Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic Megalopolis flopped, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film The Wild Robot soared to No. The Wild Robot, Chris Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's bestseller, outperformed expectations to launch with $35 million in ticket sales in U.S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore, predicts The Wild Robot 'may take a page from the Elemental playbook by opening to respectable box office and then looking toward long-term playability.'

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