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,

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