September 30, 2024 03:45 PM IST
Megalopolis Box Office Collection: Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious project has a disappointing start at the ticket window, also loses to Telugu film Devara.
It’s not every day that a Telugu film performs better than a big-budget Hollywood film in the North American market. But this week the unthinkable happened when Jr NTR and Saif Ali Khan led Devara Part 1 clashed with Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious project Megalopolis. The clash didn’t go too well for the latter, who bit the dust as soon as the bell rang. ,Also read: Megalopolis Trailer: Francis Ford Coppola Takes On The Godfather’s Critics, Settles Adam Driver For Utopian Vision,
Megalopolis vs Devara at the box office
According to comScore, Megalopolis faced mixed reviews and negative buzz, despite receiving a wide release in the US. The film grossed only $4 million in its opening weekend in North America and finished sixth at the box office. How bad the collections are can be gauged from the fact that Devara Part 1 made $5.1 million in the same territories in the same time period, even though it was a relatively smaller release. The Wild Robot topped the North American box office over the weekend with a domestic gross of $35 million.
Megalopolis also did not perform very well in the overseas market, grossing only $2.1 million, bringing its worldwide weekend total to $6.1 million, a far cry from Devara’s $33 million and The Wild Robot’s $45 million. As per the current trends, Megalopolis is all set to make a splash at the box office and is unlikely to come close to its $120 million investment.
All about megalopolis
Megalopolis, a science fiction epic, features a heavy cast including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Katherine Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, and many others. James Remar, DB Sweeney, and Dustin Hoffman. Taking 40 years from conception to release, the film was rejected by several studios before Coppola invested $80 million in it. Finally, with a production budget of $120 million, Megalopolis hit screens on Friday, September 27.
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