Nature and technology collide and then come together in the narrative of the new animated film “The Wild Robot.” That feels particularly fitting considering the visually dazzling and heartfelt movie couldn’t have been made without both the latest and greatest tech has to offer and extremely talented people.

To do that, Universal/DreamWorks' critically acclaimed film has to defy recent trends for animated science fiction The post ‘The Wild Robot’ Has What It Takes to Turn $35 Million Opening Into a Long,

“The Wild Robot” took the top spot at the box office and exceeded many projections for its debut weekend, multiple outlets reported Sunday, as Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed “Megalopolis” flopped.

It’s not the massive haul ($62 million) that Inside Out 2 made in its debut, but The Wild Robot deserves a little credit after a summer where most of the biggest hits were so-called “established IP.” ( Per Box Office Mojo,

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.

DreamWorks' The Wild Robot has taken the domestic box office crown from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to close out the month of September.

Undoubtedly it’s easier for animation studios to have an in-house style, but this isn’t the path DreamWorks Animation decided to take when adapting the illustrated children’s novel The Wild Robot by Peter Brown,

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

Lupita Nyong’o would love to make a sequel to The Wild Robot. The 41-year-old actress stars as the lovable and inquisitive android Roz in the upcoming animated DreamWorks movie — which is based on the Peter Brown novel of the same name — and has shared her excitement over a possible follow-up flick.