Box Office: Alex Garland's 'Civil War' Earns History-Making $25.7M for A24 | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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'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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00:00One nation, under God.

00:03Civil War made history for its studio at the box office this weekend.

00:07The dystopian action movie came in ahead of expectations and topped the domestic chart with $25.7 million,

00:13becoming indie studio A24's biggest opening ever.

00:17The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it tries to produce bigger movies,

00:23marking its most expensive production to date.

00:25We're moving to D.C. today.

00:28We need to go down there.

00:28They shoot journalists on sight in the Capitol.

00:32Every instinct in me says this is death.

00:34The movie follows a wartime journalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, and her colleagues

00:39as they make their way across a hostile United States of America

00:42that has been torn apart under the authoritarian rule of a three-term president, played by Nick Offerman.

00:48Offerman spoke to The Hollywood Reporter at the film's Los Angeles premiere about working with filmmaker Alex Garland.

00:53He has an incredible imagination, and he's able to take, you know,

00:57a potato face like myself and use his alchemy and his skills as a novelist to say,

01:06like, I'm going to take what the audience might expect from Nick Offerman,

01:11and then I'm going to turn that on its head in a way, or I'm going to use that against the narrative.

01:16It's worth noting the movie's audience skewed heavily male, or 73%.

01:21For the latest box office news and numbers, head to THR.com.

01:25This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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