‘Civil War’ unites the weekend box office
Director Alex Garland scored the biggest opening of his career, while ‘Godzilla x Kong’ continued it box office rampage.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of April 12-14, 2024.
1. CIVIL WAR
Weekend gross: $25.7M
Total domestic gross: $25.7M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
Civil War may prove to be a divisive movie (I’m falling further into the “I didn’t like it” camp), but the film gave Alex Garland his biggest opening weekend as a director. Civil War’s $25.7 million domestic debut easily topped the $11.1 million that Annihilation opened with in 2018.
Will Civil War continue to be a winner at the box office next weekend? Despite its strong opening weekend, the film got a B- from CinemaScore, which usually means poor word-of-mouth around a movie. If Civil War can overcome that score and not see a huge drop over the next few weekends, it should become Garland’s biggest domestic hit.
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