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The Wild Robot it surpassed a major domestic milestone in its rise up the all-time chart. The new animated film from DreamWorks 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 forms a maternal bond with orphan goose Brightbill (Kit Connor). THE Wild Robot the release debuted 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.
Put Deadlinefrom Saturday morning, The Wild Robot is projected to end its seventh weekend in theaters with a three-day domestic box office total of $6 million. This will bring its cumulative domestic total to $130.2 million. In addition to becoming the 13th film of the year to surpass the US$130 million mark, it climbed the all-time box office charts and became the 97th highest-grossing domestic animated release, in the process surpassing several titles, including The Peanut Movie, Robots, Migrationand Bee Movie.
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