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Box Office: ‘Civil War’ Sets A24 Record With $25 Million Debut
"Civil War" is the first film from A24 to lead the domestic box office.
Director Alex Garland’s provocative dystopian thriller “ Civil War ” lit up the box office with $25.7 million in its debut. But the film, starring Kirsten Dunst as a journalist who traverses a violently divided United States, is benefitting from curiosity among moviegoers (how, exactly, does this blue-state/red-state rift play out, and does it hit too close to home in an election year?) But A24, the studio behind “Beau Is Afraid,” “Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “The Lobster,” has created an art and science out of disturbing, delighting and dividing moviegoers at once.
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