Suicide Squad Annihilates Box Office Record

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Suicide Squad Annihilates Box Office Record

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Suicide Squad slays the August box office record held by Guardians of the Galaxy.

Despite middling reviews, Guardians of the Galaxy [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17175-Suicide-Squad-2016-Comic-Book-Movie-Review]. This is in spite of a Friday-to-Saturday drop over 40%. That's an unexpectedly big opening for Warner Bros., which has to be more than pleased.

Star Trek Beyond [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17168-Jason-Bourne-2016-Movie-Review]'s second week, although Bourne's budget was significantly lower. Speaking of Star Trek, Beyond dropped another 58.58% to fifth place, raking in only $10 million. With (so far) disappointing international grosses, and well lower than expected domestic takes, Beyond is looking like a certified bomb.

The other wide release of the weekend was the Nine Lives [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/kevin+spacey][/I]. It made an estimated $6.3 million over the weekend, which still feels like too much to me, but probably not enough for its studio, especially given its reported $30 million budget.

Here is the top ten for the weekend:

1. Suicide Squad [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17175-Suicide-Squad-2016-Comic-Book-Movie-Review] ($133.7 million, week 1)
2. Jason Bourne [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17168-Jason-Bourne-2016-Movie-Review] ($22.4 million, week 2)
3. Bad Moms [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17171-Bad-Moms-2016-Movie-Review] ($14 million, week 2)
4. The Secret Life of Pets [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17140-The-Secret-Life-of-Pets-2016-Animated-Movie-Review] ($11.5 million, week 5)
5. Star Trek Beyond [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17159-Star-Trek-Beyond-2016-Sci-Fi-Space-Movie-Review] ($10 million, week 3)
6. Nine Lives [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17178-Nine-Lives-2016-Kevin-Spacey-Cat-Movie-Review] ($6.3 million, week 1)
7. Lights Out [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17161-Lights-Out-2016-Horror-Movie-Review] ($6 million, week 3)
8. Nerve [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17165-Nerve-2016-Movie-Review] ($4.9 million, week 2)
9. Ghostbusters [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17154-Ghostbusters-2016-Movie-Review] ($4.7 million, week 4)
10. Ice Age: Collision Course [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/reviews/cinemarter/17158-Ice-Age-Collision-Course-2016-Movie-Review] ($4.3 million, week 3)

Source: BoxOfficeMojo [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2016&wknd=32&p=.htm]

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[Clive Howlitzer]

Quality has absolutely nothing to do with how much money something makes. I expect sales to drop off substantially though.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

More like redundant.

OT: Good for it, let's see how it does next weekend. To it's credit, it is getting decent user reviews, which is better than some of the other big movies this year.

 

[mduncan50]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

More like redundant.

OT: Good for it, let's see how it does next weekend. To it's credit, it is getting decent user reviews, which is better than some of the other big movies this year.

It seems to be pretty mixed reviews from the audience, but the fanboys are always going to be the loudest. I'll let you know what I think about it once it hits Netflix.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

More like redundant.

OT: Good for it, let's see how it does next weekend. To it's credit, it is getting decent user reviews, which is better than some of the other big movies this year.

It seems to be pretty mixed reviews from the audience, but the fanboys are always going to be the loudest. I'll let you know what I think about it once it hits Netflix.

Waiting for an unedited cut seems like a pretty solid strategy.

 

[mduncan50]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

More like redundant.

OT: Good for it, let's see how it does next weekend. To it's credit, it is getting decent user reviews, which is better than some of the other big movies this year.

It seems to be pretty mixed reviews from the audience, but the fanboys are always going to be the loudest. I'll let you know what I think about it once it hits Netflix.

Waiting for an unedited cut seems like a pretty solid strategy.

Well at this point it's like waiting for the collector's edition of a game, so you're not paying twice to get the whole experience.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

"133.7 Million" Dollars opening, huh? So you could say that this movie made leet money?

Still, I'm glad this movie is doing pretty well, at least for it's first week. Hopefully, DC at least makes some money off of it.

 

[Burnouts3s3]

I say this as a person who really liked Suicide Squad; I'm not sure if this movie will make the money DC and Warner Brothers wants it to.

The main problem isn't so much opening weekend, DC's got that locked down tight. The real problem is that is that the DC movies so far are 'front loaded', meaning they will make vast amounts of money opening weekend and then sink like a stone the weekend after. Granted, drop offs are common for all movies but for a situation like Warner Brothers where they spent 175 Million USD... not including marketing... and they had to use reshoots... and they get bad critical reception AS WELL AS bad word of mouth from movie goers... and they lose out on China because of its controversial content (China is a HUGE box office market) and it's not looking great.

The movie will not flop, that much is certain, but DC clearly would like to be doing Marvel Money and reach that ever distant Billion Dollar box office.

The question is how long you can make movies that either lose money or barely break even before something gives away?

And I want to see the DC movies too. I want to see the Justice League movies and the solo Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg movies. I'm not sure how this model the DCEU has will last.

 

[tzimize]

I say this as a person who really liked Suicide Squad; I'm not sure if this movie will make the money DC and Warner Brothers wants it to.

The main problem isn't so much opening weekend, DC's got that locked down tight. The real problem is that is that the DC movies so far are 'front loaded', meaning they will make vast amounts of money opening weekend and then sink like a stone the weekend after. Granted, drop offs are common for all movies but for a situation like Warner Brothers where they spent 175 Million USD... not including marketing... and they had to use reshoots... and they get bad critical reception AS WELL AS bad word of mouth from movie goers... and they lose out on China because of its controversial content (China is a HUGE box office market) and it's not looking great.

The movie will not flop, that much is certain, but DC clearly would like to be doing Marvel Money and reach that ever distant Billion Dollar box office.

The question is how long you can make movies that either lose money or barely break even before something gives away?

And I want to see the DC movies too. I want to see the Justice League movies and the solo Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg movies. I'm not sure how this model the DCEU has will last.

I found suicide squad to be bad. Not as bad as I feared, but FAR from as good as I'd hoped. The good parts were in the trailer for the most part.

For me, this is gonna be my lesson. I'm done. When the next DC movie rolls around I will not be one of those suckered into a premiere.

It boggles my mind that Marvel seem to be hitting home runs every damn time no matter what people they use for the movie, both actors and directors/writers. While DC cant seem to make a good superhero movie not about batman to save their life. Not even a good supervillain movie. Goddamnit DC. Why do you keep fucking up, PLEASE get rid of Znyder for the love of god! And hire some competent writers for gods sake.

 

[Ukomba]

Made more it's opening weekend than The New Ghostbusters has made so far.

The real test is going to be how much fall off it has next weekend. Name recognition gets people in the first weekend, but if it sucks people won't be coming back.

 

[Raidenko]

Glad its doing great. It only confirms that movie critics live in there own world how they see movies to the general public. No I'm not a DC or a Marvel fanboy, actually I am a bit sick of the superhero genre. But what I am more sick of is the movie critics lamenting over dumb fun movies like Transformers, FastAndFurious. Remember Equilibrium? Shit was dope but critics slammed it, Predator also If I remember. Half of them failed film school and they screech at every new movie and how they would ebbin make Citizen Kane if they had it there way. And to think that even Citizen Kane was not that of a popular movie when it initially released.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Waiting for an unedited cut seems like a pretty solid strategy.

Bare in mind the extended cuts of Green Lantern and Batman V Superman are somehow worse.

I'm putting it down to Margot Robbie in hot pants, a lot of people would pay money to see that on a big screen.

 

[Burnouts3s3]

I found suicide squad to be bad. Not as bad as I feared, but FAR from as good as I'd hoped. The good parts were in the trailer for the most part.

For me, this is gonna be my lesson. I'm done. When the next DC movie rolls around I will not be one of those suckered into a premiere.

It boggles my mind that Marvel seem to be hitting home runs every damn time no matter what people they use for the movie, both actors and directors/writers. While DC cant seem to make a good superhero movie not about batman to save their life. Not even a good supervillain movie. Goddamnit DC. Why do you keep fucking up, PLEASE get rid of Znyder for the love of god! And hire some competent writers for gods sake.

Call me an optimist, call me a fool, but I have a good 'feeling' about Wonder Woman. I think Patty Jenkins might be able to pull it off.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I don't know why I find this so hard to believe. I saw it last night and the theater was dead.

Like 5 people in total. I wonder if they're inflating the numbers a little

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

Ummm...I don't know. Not... necessarily? The phrase in itself is vague enough. Argh, stop this confusion!!

OT: No surprise...highly marketed interesting premise not affected by critic reviews. This sends a somewhat mixed message. But they need to be less focus tested/corporate controlled experiments and more labours of creative love and ambition.

 

[immortalfrieza]

I found suicide squad to be bad. Not as bad as I feared, but FAR from as good as I'd hoped. The good parts were in the trailer for the most part.

For me, this is gonna be my lesson. I'm done. When the next DC movie rolls around I will not be one of those suckered into a premiere.

It boggles my mind that Marvel seem to be hitting home runs every damn time no matter what people they use for the movie, both actors and directors/writers. While DC cant seem to make a good superhero movie not about batman to save their life. Not even a good supervillain movie. Goddamnit DC. Why do you keep fucking up, PLEASE get rid of Znyder for the love of god! And hire some competent writers for gods sake.

It probably has something to do with the fact that Marvel has much better written characters in general, with lots of excellent stories to draw inspiration from, while aside from Batman and a few gems here and there DC comics have generally been pretty meh all around, good enough for a read, not good enough to be exceptional in any fashion. That, and DC is primarily just trying to coast by off of Name Recognition rather than on making good movies. DC is still making money off of coasting by on Name Recognition at this point so they haven't bothered to try to do better.

 

[Josh123914]

Who the fuck keeps watching Ice Age movies?

I know I know "muh children" parents have some level of quality control. Besides that there's at least 2 other animated movies that you don't certainly know will be shit. What parents still drag their kids to see Ice Age despite this?

 

[Buizel91]

I guess saying 'Suicide Squad Kills at the Box Office' would be an oxymoron?

More like redundant.

OT: Good for it, let's see how it does next weekend. To it's credit, it is getting decent user reviews, which is better than some of the other big movies this year.

Pretty much like Warcraft did, Critics slated it but the film was received with some praise from general movie goers.

OT: Honestly this film is hit and miss.

On one hand the actors portrayed their roles very well, and the casting was pretty much on point.

The writing and choppy editing however really does show.

It's a shame cause this film could of been fantastic. I mean i still enjoyed it (Hats of to Will Smith and Margot Robbie) and ill undoubtedly see it again, but yeh could of been much better

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

This is good and bad news depending on how you look at it. Good in that it will encourage WB to persevere with the DC Cinematic Universe; bad in that it will probably be mediocre. Then again they could learn from their mistakes and be all the better for it. Give them a couple of years.