Written in CULTURE he 4/30/2024 · 12:10 pm
Film starring Bahian actor Wagner Moura, “Civil war”maintained its leading position at the Brazilian box office for the second consecutive weekend and has already attracted 585 thousand viewersgenerating a revenue of more than R$13.7 million since its launch.
The film produced by A24 and distributed by Diamond Films in Brazil it has sold more than 585 thousand tickets. Directed and scripted by Alex Garlandthe film’s cast includes Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemmons It is Jefferson White. The story presents the United States, considered by many “one of the pillars of western democracy”in a scenario of an internal civil war.
This war is fought between the Western Forces, an alliance of the states of Texas and California, the Florida Alliance and the government of Washington. In the story, the president of the USA, whose name is not revealed, changes the country’s constitution to allow for a third term. In this scenario, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US federal police, was dismantled. The result is an increasingly divided society and the triggering of a civil war.
A team of war journalists, pioneers in the field, decides to travel across the country devastated by polarization. The mission is to record the scale of the tragedy and document the chaotic situation in the country.
“All leaders who have authoritarian tendencies, the first things they try to silence are journalism, universities and artists. Because there are three forces that make us think and that connect us with reality”, said Wagner Moura, who plays journalist Joel in the plot, in a recent interview.
The film set a new record as A24’s most successful premiere in Brazil, attracting an audience of more than 38 thousand people and generating revenue of more than R$800 thousand in a single day.
To date, the production has accumulated global revenue of US$70 million, positioning itself as the fifth most profitable film in A24’s history, surpassing recent successes such as “Moonlight: Under the Moonlight” It is “The whale”. At the Brazilian box office, another premiere tipped to reach the film, and which has already reached the Top 5, is “Rivals”starring Zendaya.
