“The Wild Robot” opens at the top of the box office

Family-friendly films are saving the box office this year too. After the massive megahit that it was Inside Out 2This weekend's number one film is another animated children's film, The wild robot. The DreamWorks film starring Lupita Nyong'oPedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara, Matt Berry and Ving Rhames, took in $35 million in its opening weekend.

It's not the huge sum ($62 million). Inside Out 2 made in his debut, however The wild robot deserves a little recognition after a summer in which most of the biggest hits were so-called “established IPs.” (Per Box office mojoNine of the ten most lucrative films of 2024 so far were sequels or series.) deadlinealways good for an esoteric fun fact, reports that The wild robot reached”the third best opening for an animated film in September.” Another fun fact: with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ended up in second place, Catherine O'Hara currently has the two biggest films at the box office, which really feels right and fair.

Elsewhere this weekend, the Indian action drama makes its debut Deavara Part One (with RRR'S NT Rama Rao Jr.) debuted at number four at the box office with $5.6 million. This is particularly notable as it performed well ahead of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopoliswhich grossed $4 million. Accordingly diversity, Megalopolis played in 1,854 North American theaters Deavara Part One only showed 1,040. Unfortunately, the morbid oddity surrounding Coppola's bizarre, self-financed epic hasn't translated into ticket sales, despite the author's big push for IMAX theaters. Below are the weekend's top 10 at the box office, via Box office mojo.

1. The wild robot$35 million
2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, $16.04 million
3. Transformers One$9.3 million
4. Devara Part One$5.6 million
5. Don't speak evil$4.3 million
6. Megalopolis$4 million
7. Deadpool and Wolverine$2.66 million
8. My old ass$2.22 million
9. Never let go$2.2 million
10. The substance$1.81 million