EXCLUSIVE: A24 has set an April 11 nationwide theatrical release for Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Iraq War feature Warfare.
Last year, on the second weekend of April, A24 released Garland’s dystopian political thriller Civil War which wound up the studio’s biggest stateside opening at $25.5 million and its second highest-grossing movie ever with $127M worldwide.
Also opening April 11 is Universal/Blumhouse’s The Drop, 20th Century Studios The Amateur and Angel Studios’ King of Kings.
Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare told in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it, the cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman and Henrique Zaga, with Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton.
Producers are Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Matthew Penry-Davey and former Disney chairman of Entertainment Programming Peter Rice.
Warfare is the second collaboration for Garland and Mendoza, who served as the military supervisor for Garland’s film Civil War. Both co-penned Warfare.
Civil War starred Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny and followed a group of journalists traveling from New York to Washington, D.C. to document the devastating impact of a second American Civil War. The pic made $68.7M at the domestic box office.
A24 is on a roll this awards season with specialty sleeper Babygirl starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, which has grossed north of $25.5M, as well as three-time Golden Globe-winning epic drama The Brutalist which is still in limited release, posting great house grosses from Imax ($770,000 running total so far) and 70MM plays. It has a running cume of $5.8M in its fifth weekend.