Battle at the Box Office 9/30/24
The Wild Robot, buoyed by incredibly strong reviews, took the top spot at the box office this past weekend, while Megalopolis bombed epically.
The Wild Robot took in $35.7 million for first place, which puts it between Bee Movie and Puss in Boots as far as Dreamworks opening weekends. Regarding recent Dreamworks releases, it’s below the opening earlier this year for Kung Fu Panda 4 but above movies like Trolls Band Together, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and The Bad Guys. Worldwide, The Wild Robot has grossed $53.9 million.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice slipped to second place with $16.2 million. It only dropped 37% from last weekend, and we’re getting into the perfect spooky time for it to continue to stick around. The movie has $250.3 million domestically and $373.5 million worldwide.
Transformers One took a pretty huge nosedive, probably because it faced such intense robotic competition in The Wild Robot. It dropped 63% from last weekend, where it failed to open in first place and made another $9.1 million. It has $39 million domestically and $62.2 million worldwide.
Devara Part 1 and Speak No Evil rounded out the top five. Devara Part 1 is a Bollywood action movie starring RRR co-star N T Rama Rao Jr., and it took in $5.6 million from 1,040 theaters over the weekend.
Opening in sixth place, Megalopolis is the misguided disaster most people expected it to be. The movie made $4 million in 1,854 theaters, which is disastrous for a film that cost over $120 million, much of it personally financed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie got a D+ Cinemascore, so word of mouth from most moviegoers was to stay far away from this passion project. It wouldn’t be surprising if it craters out of the top 10 this weekend.
Further down the list, My Old Ass expanded wide and moved into ninth place with $2.1 million. It now has $2.8 million domestically. Howl’s Moving Castle had a re-release in theaters, debuting in tenth place with $2.1 million.
The per-Theater average went to Saturday Night, which had a limited five-theater opening before it expanded wide on October 11th. The movie made $54,000 in each of those five theaters.
