(Los Angeles) The shocking film Civil Warwhich is alarmed by a collapse of public order in the United States, took the lead in the North American box office in its first weekend of operation, according to estimates on Sunday from the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
This feature film by Briton Alex Garland, which features Kirsten Dunst as a photojournalist in the United States in the grip of a civil war and faced with the secession of California and Texas, raised $25.7 million this weekend in the United States and Canada, according to this source.
A few months before the American presidential election, the film strives to describe with the greatest possible realism the chaos and savagery that would threaten the United States in the short term.
Civil War dislodges the two creatures of the film from first place Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which raked in $15.4 million. The immense reptile and the famous gorilla were in the lead during the two previous weekends.
On the third step of the podium, we find Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, with 5.8 million dollars. In this new opus, the ghost hunters this time face the threat of a new ice age.
Kung Fu Panda 4the latest part of the animated saga from DreamWorks studios mixing humor and martial arts, climbs one place, to fourth place, with its 5.5 million at the weekend box office.
As for the movie Dune: Part Two ($4.3 million), it still hasn’t gotten bogged down after seven weeks of operation and even moved up one place compared to the previous weekend. Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction work has generated $272 million in revenue since its release in early March.
The rest of the top 10
- 6. Monkey Man (4.1 million)
- 7. The First Omen (3.8 million)
- 8. The Long Game (1.4 million)
- 9. Shrek 2 (special reissue 20e birthday) (1.3 million)
- 10. SUGA Agust D TOUR’D-DAY’THE MOVIE ($991,000)