Universal's The Wild Robot has opened at the top of the UK box office.
The family sci-fi adventure feature made £3.3 million across its opening weekend, including previews.
The DreamWorks animation is based on Peter Brown's 2016 novel about a shipwrecked robot who befriends the local wildlife. The film stars Lupita Nyong'o as Roz the Robot and Kit Connor as Brightbill, an orphaned Canada goose. Pedro Pascal, Catherine O'Hara, and Bill Nighy also feature. Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Ving Rhames round out the cast
Paramount's Smile 2 opened in second with £2 million, including previews. The supernatural horror sequel stars Naomi Scott as a pop star plagued by alarming incidents leading up to her tour.
StudioCanal's Donald Trump biopic, The Apprentice, debuted in third place with £746,303. Starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and Maria Bakalova, the drama follows Trump's real estate career in the 1970s and '80s.
Transformers One drops to fourth place, adding £642,000 in its second week. This brings the Paramount animation's total to £2.8 million. It is ahead of Terrifier 3, which made £561,752 to take its UK box office gross to £2.2 million.
Joker: Folie À Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, added £498,532. Screen Daily reports that this is down 65.2%, and additionally only 9% of what Joker (2019) earned in its third week. The musical's total now stands at £9.8 million.
Another Warner Bros. sequel, Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, grossed £467,816 in its seventh week. This 39.2% drop takes its cumulative total to £24.7 million.
In its fifth week, Coralie Fargeat's The Substance dropped only 27% with £221,000. The body horror's total reached £3.2 million and is set to overtake Priscilla as MUBI's highest-grossing film in the UK.
Watch the trailer for The Wild Robot below.