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In The Wild Robot, the titular robot does her very best to help a young gosling fly.
Turns out, the movie managed to take flight itself.
The Wild Robot soared to the top of the box office this weekend, toppling Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from its previous No. 1 perch. Robot gathered up an estimated $35 million in North America. Add in the $18.1 million it earned overseas and The Wild Robot has banked just about $53.1 million worldwide.
And more is likely to come. Given that it scored an impressive 98% “freshness” rating from both critics and fans on Rotten Tomatoes, The Wild Robot may be in for a wild box-office ride.
After three weekends on top, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice slid to second place. The creepy comedy scared up more than $16 million, growing its grand domestic total to a truly terrifying $250.1 million. That makes Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the year’s sixth highest-grossing film, trailing fifth-place Twisters by just about $17 million.
Transformers One finished third with $9.3 million, which transformed its own overall tally to $39.2 million.
The Telugu-language actioner Devara: Part 1 landed in fourth place, earning $5.6 million during its opening weekend. And while Box Office Mojo hasn’t released the film’s worldwide weekend take as of this publication, the Hindustan Times tells us that it has earned just about $32.9 million globally.
Speak No Evil finished fifth with $4.3 million, pushing Francis Ford Coppola’s widely panned Megalopolis outside the top five. The epic, which Coppola reportedly spent $120 million of his own money to make, earned just $4 million in theaters—making Megalopolis, thus far, one of the year’s mega-failures.
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