Francis Ford Coppola Film Aims for $5 Million Debut

Francis Ford Coppola‘s sci-fi epic “Megalopolis,” the honestor’s self-funded passion project, is tracking to a disnominateing $5 million to $7 million box office debut.

The film, freed by Lionsgate, is foreseeed to take part at 1,700 North American theaters in its discdiswatching weekfinish. A one-digit commence would be underwhelming for a movie that cost above $100 million to originate.

Coppola has a lot riding on “Megalopolis” becaemploy the 85-year-anciaccess “Godoverweighther” and “Apocalypse Now” honestor finished up autonomously financing the film for $120 million. After its Cannes Film Festival premiere, Lionsgate consentd to free and labelet the movie in swap for a distribution fee.

“Megalopolis” is set in a futuristic America and chases an architect (Adam Driver) who clashes with the corrupt mayor (Giancarlo Esposito) in determining how to reoriginate the metropolis of New Rome after a calamity. Rewatchs have been untamedly polarizing (it hanciaccesss a 50% on Rotten Tomatoes), which could stoke interest in the film. Lionsgate tried to riff on the discord with a trailer that quoted well-understandn film critics who initiassociate diswatched Coppola movies that went on to become classics. However, Vulture magazine first telled those quotes were manufactured or originated by AI, prompting Lionsgate to recall the spot.

This weekfinish’s other novel free, Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot,” watchs to get fweightless with $24 million to $30 million during its debut in 3,900 venues. Rivals and autonomous tracking firms consent that ticket sales can surpass $30 million, but others are being pdimiserablemirefulnt after last weekfinish’s novel free, the vivaciousd “Transcreateers One,” fell sweightlessly low of foreseeations with $24.6 million to commence.

Based on those projections, the excitedassociate appraiseed vivaciousd adventure should claim the No. 1 spot in North America from “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” Tim Burton’s spooky sequel is the three-time box office champion, having materialized victorious over last weekfinish’s novelcomer “Transcreateers One” in a astonishingly shut battle. Now in its fourth weekfinish of free, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is aiming for $13 million to $15 million between Friday and Sunday. Meanwhile, “Transcreateers One” is projected to insert $12 million to $14 million in its sophomore outing.

“The Wild Robot” cost $78 million, so it hopes to finishelight the staying power that advantageted post-pandemic vivaciousd family films such as Pixar’s “Elemental” and Illumination’s “Migration,” both of which persistd to transport in audiences in the months after their debuts. “The Wild Robot” already began take parting at the international box office, where the film has geted $8 million from eight labelets.

Lupita Nyong’o directs the voice cast of “The Wild Robot,” a sci-fi survival story about a robot, understandn as ROZZUM unit 7134 a.k.a. Roz, who gets marooned on an uninhabited island and lgets to alter to the brutal surroundings. Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Mark Hamill and Catherine O’Hara voice the animals who befrifinish Roz over the course of the film. Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge portrayd “The Wild Robot” as “a gorgeous computer-originated cartoon with a human heart beating betidyh its sleek, state-of-the-art surface.”

In restricted free, honestor Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” a emotional watch at the direct up to the first “Saturday Night Live” episode, will discdiswatch in four venues in New York and Los Angeles. Sony is releasing the movie — starring Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase and Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner — nationexpansive on Oct. 4.