The shock film Civil War, which 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 release, according to Sunday estimates. specialized firm Exhibitor Relations. This feature film by Briton Alex Garland, which features Kirsten Dunst as a photojournalist in an America 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 displaces the two creatures from the film Godzilla x Kong – the New Kingdom from first place, which grossed $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: The Ice Menace, with 5.8 million dollars. In this new opus, the ghost hunters this time face the threat of a new ice age.
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Kung Fu Panda 4, the latest installment of DreamWorks studios’ animated saga combining humor and martial arts, climbs one place, to fourth place, with its 5.5 million at the weekend box office. As for the film Dune: Part II ($4.3 million), it still hasn’t bogged down after seven weeks of release 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.
Here is the rest of the top 10:
6 – Monkey Man (4,1 millions)
7 – The Curse: the origin (3.8 million)
8 – The Long Game (1,4 million)
9 – Shrek 2 (special 20th anniversary re-release) (1.3 million)
10 – SUGA Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE MOVIE (991.000 dollars)