Many are impressed with how A24 got this divided movie across the finish line with a great result.
Some rivals snipe that the movie is frontloaded.
Four hundred Imax auditoriums rang up $4.2M ofCivil Wars weekend, or 16.5% of the overall opening.
CIVIL WAR, Cailee Spaeny, 2024. © A24 / Courtesy Everett CollectionA24
AMC Lincoln Square NYC,Civil Wars top-grossing location, is now at $130K.
Of those buying tickets, 27% identified as frequent moviegoers buying tickets on opening weekend.
Only 17% bought tickets because of the cast.
CIVIL WAR, from left: Wagner Moura, Kirsten Dunst, 2024. ph: Murray Close / © A24 / Courtesy Everett CollectionA24
Interesting stat: 48% of those who watchedCivil Warare curious about a sequel.
Alex Garland’s urgent and intense#CivilWargrabs you by the throat and forces you to watch.
See it large and loud.
It’s powder keg cinema.pic.twitter.com/9V8myHoHok
On social, A24 did a What Kind of American Are You?
Green Toy Soldier Generator:
What kind of American are you?
The chart:
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Rivals estimates are wild from$24M-$27M.
As we previously wrote, thats a slam dunk opening record for A24.
Mostly male skewing here forCivil Warat 73% with 57% of the audience being the prime 18-34moviegiong demo.
Largest demo was 25-34 at 36%.
Best cinema in the nation is AMC Lincoln Square in NYC with close to $80K.
Pic is 71% fresh with critics, and 50% with audiences.
Well have the chart later for you today.
That beats the $13.5M start of Ari Asters 2018 movieHereditary.
Whatever your views, Act 2 and Act 3 payoff in Imax.
Audiences are divided on their feelings towards A24s most expensive film yet.
Another spectator adds This is going to be so intense, and Im so excited its in IMAX!
Hell yeah, Alex Garland!
This doesnt look like a typical, big studio, cookie-cutter war pic.
Im told that the portion of A24 die-hards who show up varies per movie.
That will get the Monsterverse movie to$157.4Mby Sunday.
That will get Dav Patels directorial debut to$18.1Mat 3,037 venues.
The fourthquel past the sequel,Kung Fu Panda 2,last weekend ($165.2M).
That is the best ever in previews for an A24 movie, more than doubleHereditary($1.3M).
Other major territories go next weekend.
At 3,800 theaters, boosted by Imax, this is A24s widest release ever.
Its also the widest R-rated release for an independent studio.
The question is whether this movie plays to the heartland and not the coasts.
Comps are hard on this one, butCivil Warhas the feeling of an Oliver Stone and Kathryn Bigelow movies.
Pic is in north of 1,000 theaters with an eye on a low single digits start.
Critics enjoyed at 87% fresh, but audiences are at 67%.
SonysGhostbusters: Frozen Empireends week 3 with$11.3Mat 3,835 theaters after a$516Kestimated Thursday, -12%.
Running total is now$91.1M.
