'Megalopolis' Was Never, Ever Going To Be A Box Office Hit

'Transformers One' dropped 76% on Friday while 'Saturday Night' earned $107,000.

In non-Wild Robot Friday box office news, the other high-profile opener this weekend was Lionsgate’s domestic launch of Megalopolis. Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded, $120 million opus debuted at Cannes with mixed reviews, with little in the offering suggesting a boffo launch. So, yes, it earned $1.84 million on Friday for a likely $4 million domestic debut. Yes, this is yet another miserable opening weekend for a Lionsgate theatrical. No, the House that Jigsaw Built is neither on the hook for any amount of the production budget nor of the mind that they picked up the domestic distribution rights for theatrical fortune and glory. Regardless, nobody should have expected a different result.