Coppola, the director of all-timers including "The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now,' put $120 million of his own money into the ambitious oddity of a project.

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.

Lupita Nyongo's animated adventure "Wild Robot" is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $35 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

Warner Bros. and Tim Burton’s sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and Paramount’s animated “Transformers One” topped international box office charts over Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot.

Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks

Universal and DreamWorks Animation's "The Wild Robot" landed in first place on box office charts, taking flight on the higher end of expectations with $35 million from 3,900 venues. Meanwhile, Francis Ford Coppola‘s sci-fi epic "Megalopolis” collapsed in its box office debut,