Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse.
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Alex Garland's "Civil War" fended off incursions from new movies to retain its box office title for the second weekend in a row. The provocative film, from independent A24, is expected to generate about $11.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, bringing its total domestic box gross to $44.9 million, according to Comscore. The R-rated dystopian thriller, also written by Garland, stars Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura as journalists in a near-future time...
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OPENINGS: ABIGAIL (Universal) launched at the low end of expectations with $10.2M, lower than the $11.8M for Night Swim and virtually the same as the $9.9M for Imaginary. Those films are respectively at $32.5M and $28M in the US, which is the likely range for Abigail. However, the new film reportedly cost $28M before […]
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Alex Garland’s latest topped the box office with $25.7 million, making A24 history.
In the heart of the Walt Disney Studios campus, in Burbank, California, there’s a towering building, where the Seven Dwarfs hold the roof over their heads, like the caryatids in ancient Greece. The Michael Graves-designed structure is corporate headquarters, where Bob Iger, Josh D’Amaro, and other key executives run the $215 billion entertainment giant. Off to the left is a smaller building, with a nondescript “Animation” sign above the door. If you walk through the doors of this building,...
OPENINGS: CIVIL WAR (A24) marked its studio’s biggest swing to date, with costs that will approach $100M for production and worldwide marketing. (A24 limited its risk by pre-selling some overseas territories to subdistributors.) The early results were promising, with a studio-record $25.7M weekend, alhough tepid audience surveys and the fact that the audience was […]
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