The Wild Robot box office results are coming in, and all signs point to the film climbing to the top of the weekend charts.
What are The Wild Robot box office results?
According to a recent report from variety, The Wild Robot pulled in $1.95 million in Thursday previews at the box office. As for its weekend tracking, the film is estimated to earn between $24-30 million, which would be enough to dethrone Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for the top spot.
The Beetlejuice sequel has been the top grossing movie for the past three weeks, but is expected to earn somewhere between $13-15 million this weekend. Slotting in at third this week, according to estimations, is Paramount’s Transformers One, which is expected to earn between $12-14 million.
The Wild Robot is directed by acclaimed animated filmmaker Chris Sanders, who is best known for his works on iconic movies such as Croods, How to Train Your Dragon, and Lilo & Stitch. It is produced by long-time Kung Fu Panda producer Jeff Hermann.
The film features the voices of Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) as Fink, Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) as Pinktail, Bill Nighy (Love Actually) as Longneck, Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Brightbill, Lupita Nyong’o as Rozzum, (Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as robot Vontra, Mark Hamill (The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction).
“The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot — ROZZUM unit 7134, ‘Roz’ for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling,” reads the synopsis.
(Source: Variety)
