“The Wild Robot” pulls out nearly $2 million in previews, “Megalopolis” begins

DreamWorks Animation/Universal's The wild robot extrapolated $1.95 million yesterday from the screenings, which began at 2 p.m. in 3,000 cinemas.

The Lupita Nyong'o-dubbed film is expected to top the box office with grosses of over $20 million, and this preview taking shows that it is higher than previous DWA competitions Trolls band together ($1.3 million), which resulted in an opening day of $9.3 million and an opening day of $30 million, and the value is above that The bad guys That brought in $1.15 million in previews, an opening day of $7.98 million and an opening price of $23.9 million.

From the start, great PostTrak for The wild robot with 5 stars from general audiences, 4 1/2 stars from parents and five stars from children under 12. Last night it was 72% of the general audience, 18% parents and 10% children. In the general target group, men outnumbered fathers at 53%, while mothers outnumbered fathers at 58% to 42%; As expected, the majority of children under 12 were girls (53%). The wild robot based on Peter Brown's #1 award-winning book New York Times Bestseller. The film cost $78 million net before P&A expenses.

Lionsgate's release of Francis Ford Coppola/Zoetrope's self-financed $120 million project Megalopolis did $770,000 This also includes the live Imax event on Monday. We told you that alone brought in around $300,000. The film opens today in 1,854 theaters across North America, including 238 IMAX screens and 45 premium large format screens.

As for recent competitions, many point to another filmmaker who has over $100 million in funding. Horizon, by Kevin Costner, which grossed $800,000 in previews on its first day and opened to $11 million at the end of June.

Nobody expected Megalopolis to do well, the plan is to open between $5 million and $7 million; Obviously a big loss as the red ink fell on the owner of the Coppola winery. The exits on Thursday night are already bad, with half a star and a positive rating of 45% on PostTrak – not many big star films can do that. What is worth celebrating is that the 85-year-old award-winning filmmaker, who has won five Oscars, is seeing his cinematic dream reach theaters and not be sidelined and lost in streaming. Lionsgate doesn't have a skin in the game; They are just the distributor while Coppola covers the marketing costs, which I say is between $15 million and $17 million. Sources tell me Lionsgate, no matter how bad Megalopolis will walk away with a distribution fee of between $3 million and $5 million. Coppola already said this at the press conference in Cannes Megalopolis will leave him with “no problems” financially and that his descendants, including his filmmaker children Sophia and Roman and their children, “have wonderful careers without wealth.”

We've heard that Imax is the aorta of this film with the most pre-sales for large format screenings.

Who was there last night for the dystopian epic Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight and Nathalie Emmanuel? Most of the audience is men at 69% and a young audience at 64% is under 25 years old. The best marks, if you can call it that, were given by women over 25 (23% of the crowd), who gave 50%. The critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 50% Rotten.

Third week of Warner Bros Beetlejuice Beetlejuice did $33.2 million after a Thursday of $1.46 million for a running total of $234 million. The Tim Burton-directed film is almost $40 million behind Warner Bros.'s top-grossing film in September, It, at the same time, which ended its run at $327.4 million.

Paramount's first week of Transformers One did $29.8 million after one $838,000 Thursday. The film is expected to witness a drop of around 50% in its second weekend.

Blumhouse/Universal's Don't speak evil ends weekend 2 with an estimate $8.3 million after $520,000 yesterday for a running total of $23.8 million.

Lionsgate's Alexandrea Aja directed Halle Berry's genre film, Never let go, ends the first week with $6 million after one $300,000 Thursday.

Disney/Marvel Studios Deadpool and Wolverine concludes week 9 $5.2 million after one $317,000 Thursday. The running total is at $628.6 million.

Mubi's Demi Moore body swap film The substance End the first week with $5.05 million after one $370,000 Thursday.

We'll see later today how much Hurricane Helene hits the box office. According to Weather.com, there are more than 4 million homes and businesses without power: South Carolina (1.3 million), Florida (1.1 million), Georgia (1.07 million), North Carolina (614,000) and Virginia (43,000 ).