Suicide Squad, WB’s summer installment of its DC Extended Universe franchise, quietly climbed into the top 50 all-time domestic box office rankings, stretching its take to $318,584,857 according to Box Office Mojo. That moves it past Iron Man, the 2008 Marvel Studios/Paramount film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe read »
As you know, MGM and Sony’s The Magnificent Seven earned (as of this writing) a rock-solid $35 million over its opening weekend. It’s one of the biggest openings on record for a live-action western, and the run-up to its release will give rise to the idea that the western is “back” or is again a viable genre. Yet, the western, read »
The “final” numbers are out, and it looks like Suicide Squad indeed topped the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office this weekend. Thanks to a robust domestic hold (-42% in weekend five) and a $3.8m debut in Japan, the DC Comics supervillain caper has now earned $307.5m in North America and $392.6m overseas. That gives read »
Don’t Breathe posted another terrific hold on its third weekend. The Sony/Screen Gems thriller earned $8.2 million (-49%) over the third frame for a terrific $66.8m 17-day cume. The $10m home invasion thriller is still on track for an $80m+ domestic total, making it (along with Sausage Party) another late-summer read »
Don’t Breathe is the top film on its second Friday (and presumably its second weekend) as the Sony release earned $4.175 million yesterday. That’s a reasonable (for a horror film) drop of 57%, and it gives the buzzy Screen Gems release a $39.59m eight-day cume. We can expect around $14.9m for the Fri-Sun weekend (-44%) and read »
With a surprisingly solid hold in its fourth weekend of release, Suicide Squad is starting to shape up to be more than a presold flash-in-the-pan. The film has $634 million worldwide thus far, including $282m domestic, with a possible worldwide cume of $690-$700m before the film opens in Japan on Sept. 10. Even if rumblings read »
Suicide Squad fell out of the top spot but crossed $600 million worldwide. The DC super-villain adventure earned another $12.1m domestic (a solid -42% drop) for a new $282.8m domestic cume. A $300m+ domestic total is all-but-guaranteed. The film may pass Man of Steel domestically ($291m) by the end of Labor Day weekend read »
Suicide Squad topped the weekend box office for the third frame in a row, an achievement shared this year by Deadpool, Zootopia, The Jungle Book and Finding Dory. Heck, considering the next few weeks of releases, if Suicide Squad can read »
Suicide Squad will top the weekend box office for the third frame in a row, and considering the competition it may well hold the proverbial title for a couple more weeks. That’s the beautiful part of August. As the summer winds down and slowly turns into the Fall/Oscar season, you can arbitrarily rule the box office for an read »
As was revealed by Umberto Gonzalez last night, Zendaya’s would-be mystery character in Spider-Man: Homecoming is apparently none-other than Mary Jane Watson. The young Disney Channel actress (Shake It Up, K.C Undercover) had been cast in a “mystery” role in the /Marvel superhero reboot awhile back, and now we read »
Over the last two weeks, we’ve had a flurry of filmmakers and actors involved with Suicide Squad stepping up to defend the critically-reviled film. That’s fair enough, but the common thread of these defenses is that the critical reviews and box office staying power doesn’t matter because the movie was made “for the fans.” Yet, read »
It’s been a week since Suicide Squad was released, and for the most part, the film has been savaged by critics as much as or even worse than Batman V. Superman, bringing up a fresh round of questions about what exact WB is doing with the DCEU, and what needs to change going forward.
Suicide Squad will make a read »
Its overseas legs aren’t that much better than its domestic ones, but Suicide Squad is still making its way up the global box office charts in its second weekend of release. The David Ayer supervillain caper earned $58.7 million overseas this weekend for an international total of $242.5m. Combined with its $222.87m domestic read »
Suicide Squad ended its first week of domestic play with a whopping $179.1 million seven-day cume. The Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. offering earned another $8.2m on Thursday, down just 16.3% from its $9.8m Wednesday total. Comparatively speaking, Guardians of the Galaxy dropped 13.6% on its first read »
