Rahul Malhotra is a news writer at Collider specialising in box office coverage, and Indian cinema. He has been contributing to Collider for 3 years.
The Big Picture Director Alex Garland’s speculative dystopian thriller, Civil War, is living up to expectations as indie outfit A24’s first real big-budget play. With a strong $10.8 million haul on opening day, which includes the $2.9 million that it made in Thursday previews, Civil War is on track to deliver A24’s best opening at the domestic box office, beating the previous topper by a wide margin.
Produced on a reported budget of $50 million — the biggest yet for an A24 movie — Civil War is eyeing at least $23 million across its first three days of release. Not only would this mark the studio’s biggest debut, it also exceeds the previous best, Hereditary, by over $10 million. A24 has been quietly occupying a mid-budget zone that has mostly been vacated by most competitors in the post-pandemic era, after having established incredible brand recognition over the last decade or so.
The number three spot went to Sony’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which grossed a little under $1.5 million on Friday, and will earn slightly less than $5 million across its fourth weekend. By Sunday, the film will be roughly $5 million shy of hitting the coveted $100 million mark domestically, but will subsequently find it almost impossible to match the $130-odd million that both its predecessors — Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Answer the Call — grossed during their respective runs.
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