Budget: $120 million [source]
Opening weekend gross: $4 million
Factoring in marketing costs and the theaters taking their cut of the profits, Megalopolis would need to make at least $300 million to break even. I think it’s safe to say that’s not happening.
It would have been THE worst opening for a $100 million movie ever, had it not been for Pluto Nash’s horriffic opening 22 years ago.
Even The New York Times is reporting near-empty screenings of Megalopolis!
From what I can tell that’s part of the reason why it turned out bad. Movies really need to be made within a window of a few years from when the idea starts rolling, if the script hangs around for too long the creators start poking and prodding at it and almost always end up making it worse.