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Civil War is having a huge start for A24! The war thriller is performing very well at the box office, nearly doubling the distributor’s opening weekend record with a $25.7 million start from 3,838 locations, via The Wrap. The prior record was set with $13.5 million by Ari Aster’s 2018 horror film Hereditary. Civil War also had the highest budget for an A24 film at $50 million. The movie has a B- on CinemaScore, with a Rotten Tomatoes scores at 83% critics and 77% audience. Keep reading to find out more… The film centers around a race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge. Alex Garland wrote and directed the movie with an all-star cast including Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman, and more.