Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office.

"The Wild Robot," the animated science fiction tale of a machine surviving on a deserted island, topped North American box offices this weekend, ending the three-week reign of "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,

In the opening scenes of “The Wild Robot,” a chirpy metal android with a state-of-the-art processing unit wanders around a forest asking confused animals if it can help them, offering discount codes and stickers for future customers.

September ended with quite a number of new wide releases, but only one new movie stood out above all the rest. Read on for the weekend box office report. DreamWorks Animation’s latest, “The Wild Robot,

The Wild Robot's unexpected success at the box office is great news for both the creatives behind the film and animation at large.

Chris Sanders reveals what caused modern animated films to break from early CG visuals and how The Wild Robot factors this approach into Roz's arc.