Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million passion project only cleared $4 million in its domestic debut after receiving the disastrous audience score and divided reviews.

To put that box-office return in perspective, Megalopolis ranked sixth behind Devara: Part 1, a three-hour Telugu-language action epic playing on about half as many screens. Moreover, such an underperformance fell wildly short of pre-release “tracking” estimates which had Ford’s two-hour and 18-minute ensemble opus — its cast includes Nathalie Emmanuel,

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.