DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming moviegoers and audiences alike, boasting both a stellar 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score and a 98 percent audience score, not to mention an A CinemaScore from moviegoers — if only the love were being spread around.
Francis Ford Coppola — in one of the low points of his long and illustrious career — is watching his new movie Megalopolis get almost utterly rejected by moviegoers (it was likewise maligned by many critics). The film received a disastrous D+ CinemaScore from audiences and may not even clear $4.5 million in its domestic debut.
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At this pace, The Wild Robot will have no trouble coming in No. 1 with an opening in the $35 million. While that’s ahead of tracking, many had predicted the film would do big business, particularly after Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s fellow PG animated film Transformers One opened behind expectations with $24.6 million to lose the top spot to the third weekend of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Transformers One — which hoped to get fanboys in addition to kids and parents — looks to fall