'Civil War' made history for its studio at the box office this weekend. The dystopian action movie came in ahead of expectations and topped the domestic chart with $25.7 million, becoming indie studio A24's biggest opening ever. The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it tries to produce bigger movies, marking its most expensive production to date.
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00:00 "One nation, under God."
00:02 Civil War made history for its studio at the box office this weekend.
00:07 The dystopian action movie came in ahead of expectations and topped the domestic
00:11 chart with $25.7 million, becoming indie studio A24's biggest opening ever.
00:17 The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it
00:21 tries to produce bigger movies, marking its most expensive production to date.
00:26 "Don't move into D.C. today."
00:28 "You need to go down there."
00:29 "They shoot journalists on sight in the capital."
00:32 "Every instinct in me says this is death."
00:34 The movie follows a wartime journalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, and her colleagues as they
00:40 make their way across a hostile United States of America that has been torn apart under the
00:44 authoritarian rule of a three-term president, played by Nick Offerman.
00:48 Offerman spoke to The Hollywood Reporter at the film's Los Angeles premiere about
00:51 working with filmmaker Alex Garland.
00:53 "He has an incredible imagination and he's able to take,
00:57 you know, a potato face like myself and use his alchemy and his skills as a novelist to say,
01:06 like, I'm going to take what the audience might expect from Nick Offerman and then I'm going to
01:12 turn that on its head in a way or I'm going to use that against the narrative."
01:17 It's worth noting the movie's audience skewed heavily male, or 73%.
01:21 For the latest Fox Office news and numbers, head to THR.com.
01:24 This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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