Box Office: ‘Civil War' Draws Blood to Beat ‘Abigail' and Stay No. 1 With $11M Second Weekend

Box Office: ‘Civil War’ Draws Blood to Beat ‘Abigail’ and Stay No. 1 With $11M Second Weekend

Alex Garland’s dystopian political action film Civil War about an America torn apart triumphed over new vampire pic Abigail at the weekend box office.

Civil War held in well to stay No. 1 in its second weekend with $11 million for a healthy domestic total of $45 million for indie studio A24. The film has succeeded in uniting both blue states and red states.

Heading into the weekend, Universal’s Abigail was expected to take a bigger bite out of Civil War but is instead opened to $10.2 million. That’s still a respectable number for a studio film that cost a modest $28 million to make before marketing.

Abigail is from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the directing duo known as Radio Silence who were behind the reboot of the Scream franchise and the horror hit Ready or Not. Their new movie, written by Stephen Shields, follows the horrors that happen when a group of criminals kidnap the 12-year-old, who is the daughter of an underworld figure. The only problem: the young ballerina is a vampire.

Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire remained a force to be reckoned with in its fourth weekend, earning another $9.8 million to place No. 2 as its domestic total stomps past the $170 million mark domestically.

Guy Ritchie’s new movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare wasn’t too behind with an opening of $9 million. The ensemble film, whose cast includes Henry Cavill, chronicles a covert World War II mission manned by a band of renegades who are tasked with destroying Nazi U-boats (it’s loosely based on real events). The Lionsgate film boasts an A- CinemaScore.

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s hit family film Kung Fu Panda 4, now in its seventh outing, and Sony/Crunchyroll’s new anime offering Spy × Family Code: White were in a close race for No. 4, but the latter prevailed with an strong opening of $4.9 million.

Spy x Family, which continues a winning streak for Japanese anime, is a spy-action comedy based on the shōnen manga series Spy × Family by Tatsuya Endo.

Kung Fu Panda 4 placed No. 5 with $4.6 million for a dazzling domestic tally of $179.9 million.

Overall, it was a sluggish weekend as year-to-date revenue tumbled nearly 20 percent behind last year, and 33 percent from 2019. Year-over-year weekend comparisons are even more bleak considering this was when The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened. Put another way, summer can’t come soon enough Hollywood.

April 21, 7:50 a.m.: Updated with revised domestic and inter estimates.

This story was originally published April 20 at 10:02 am.

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