Headline : Weekend Box Office Results: Civil War Earns Second Victory in a Row

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Sometimes it just feels like mid-April at the box office. Nothing is really dominating. New movies are earning low-double/high-single digits and competing for second place. Moviegoers start looking forward to what’s in store for them this summer and then realize all the “original” movies are opening now. We certainly have another one of these weekends coming up before May opens the door to a more exciting phase of theatergoing, but for now we get movies that are not sequels but stuff we’ve kinda seen before.

Alex Garland’s Civil War managed to fend off two new factions and remain in power for a second weekend, despite dropping 56% to finish with $11.1 million. Now with $44.8 million, the film has become one of the top five grossing films ever for A24 and will be passing Talk To Me, Lady Bird, and Uncut Gems this upcoming week. It still, however, appears destined to remain No. 2 for the studio. Right now its numbers are wedged between 10 Cloverfield Lane ($12.5 million second weekend, $45.1 million 10-day total) and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead ($10.6 million, $44.4 million). (Happy Rebel Moon weekend, by the way.) Continuing along that path, Civil War appears headed for somewhere in the mid-60s — good for the A24 chart, but maybe not as great when you consider its $50 million budget. Let’s hope the international community chips in a bit more.

In second place is the new film from Radio Silence (aka directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett). After two financially successful entries in the Scream franchise, they return with the vampire ballerina film Abigail. The Universal release opened with $10.2 million; definitely on the low end of April horror releases, which, apart from A Quiet Place, has thrived with the genre thanks to brand names like Evil Dead and remakes of A Nightmare On Elm Street, Pet Sematary, and The Amityville Horror. Universal has had some decent openings thanks to Blumhouse films like Truth or Dare and Unfriended, but while Abigail opened better than last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist and this year’s The First Omen, it still feels like a bit of a disappointment considering its $28 million budget, especially with just $5 million internationally so far. That’s much better than last year’s Renfield debacle (grossing $17.2 million on a $65 million budget), but it may end up in the vicinity of the directing duo’s debut, Ready or Not, which also featured someone brought to a big gothic house under false pretenses, then forced to run around from the danger inside, ultimately ending up with a bunch of people exploding. That film finished its run with $28 million.

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