Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious project is off to a disastrous start at the ticket window, losing even to Telugu film Devara

Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed movie "Megalopolis," starring Adam Driver, is off to a poor start in its opening weekend at the domestic box office.

Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “Wild Robot” soared to No. 1 at the weekend box office.

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