The Wild Robothas passed a major domestic milestone on its way up the all-time chart. The new DreamWorks animated movie is based on the children’s book of the same name and follows Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), a robot who becomes stranded on a desert island and slowly reprograms herself as she forges a maternal bond with orphaned gosling Brightbill (Kit Connor).TheWild Robotreleaseopened with a middling $35.8 million against its $78 million budget, but slowly and steadily rose to become one of the biggest animated hits of the year and of all time.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,The Wild Robotis projected to close out its seventh weekend in theaters with a three-day domestic box office total of $6 million. This willpush its cumulative domestic total to $130.2 million. In addition to becoming the 13th movie of the year to pass the $130 million milestone, it has climbed up the all-time box office chart to become the 97th highest-grossing domestic animated release, in the process passing several titles includingThe Peanuts Movie,Robots,Migration, andBee Movie.
What This Means For The Wild Robot
The Movie Can Keep Climbing
Although it is more than a month into its release,The Wild Robothas had a dazzling audience hold. In fact, its slim week-on-week drop was just 19%, which followed a nigh-on unprecedented 9.4% rise during its sixth weekend in domestic theaters. If it continues this minimal decline,it could gross another $4.8 million in theaters during its eighth weekend, bringing its cumulative domestic total to roughly $137 million and potentially even more, especially if Veterans Day Monday gives it an extra boost. Below, see how many movies it could pass on the chart, should that be the case.
#96
$131.5 million
#95
$135.4 million
#94
$137.7 million
#93
Disney’s A Christmas Carol(2009)
$137.8 million
Many factors are contributing to this massive haul, including glowingThe Wild Robotreviewsearning the movie a near-perfect, Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 98% with a matching Verified Hot 98% audience score. The movie is alsoa buzzy contender for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. However, its prospects were also boosted by the release of the gory unrated slasher movieTerrifier 3, as reports reflected that underage viewers were buying tickets for the DreamWorks movie to sneak in to see Art the Clown’s latest bloody rampage.
Our Take On The Wild Robot Box Office
The DreamWorks Hit Has Nothing Left To Prove
As holiday movie season heats up, the newDreamWorks moviewill inevitably be pushed out of theaters by huge upcoming November blockbuster releases, includingWicked,Gladiator II, andMoana 2. However, even thoughThe Wild Robotwill probably never climb into the domestic Top 50, it has solidified itself as a respectable hit for the studio. This total is most likely enough to spawn a new major franchise in the vein ofShrek,The Boss Baby,Kung Fu Panda, orHow to Train Your Dragon.
The Wild Robot
Cast
The Wild Robot is an animated drama film based on a series of books by Peter Brown. The adaptation is written and directed by Chris Sanders and stars Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, and Catherine O’Hara. The Wild Robot centers on a robot named Rozzum 7134, who becomes stranded on a deserted island and the guardian of a young orphan.
