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[Penguin]

This actually happened last weekend, but no one ever made a thread.

Domestically it has become the 14th highest grossing comic book film surpassing Iron Man 2 this weekend.

WB's SUICIDE SQUAD is a fighter--down just -18% in its 7th weekend w/ $4.7M, $313M total.

https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/777512193046769664

After a steep second weekend drop, it has also become the 2nd leggiest comic book movie of the year behind Deadpool.

It currently sits at 718 million worldwide and still seems to have a little gas left in the tank.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

That's a shame.

 

[heliosRAzi]

Congratulations you piece of shit movie

 

[SpaceWolf]

Genuinely fascinated to see how much Wonder Woman will make.

 

[kmfdmpig]

Good. It was not amazing, but I liked it much more than the consensus.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Awesome

 

[Elginer]

the power of Harley Quinn

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

Maybe they'll make enough money to release a director's cut with some semblance of pacing and structure....and more rope guy.

 

[kswiston]

Suicide Squad has a pretty good shot at hitting $750M worldwide, which would put it at #14 for comic films worldwide as well.


Cross-posting this from the box office thread, since it fits in here better. I think that the bad second weekend drop and mediocre third weekend drop sort of mask how Suicide Squad has been performing in recent weeks:

Here are the 7th weekend (domestic) grosses for all MCU era Marvel/DC comic films (spring 2008 to present)

TITLE					SEVENTH WEEKEND GROSS (DOM)
Avengers				$8,905,467
The Dark Knight				$8,622,879 (Labor Day weekend)
Guardians of the Galaxy			$8,102,358
The Dark Knight Rises			$6,116,335 (Labor Day weekend)
Iron Man				$5,620,375
Deadpool 				$4,897,941
Suicide Squad				$4,710,000
Avengers: Age of Ultron			$3,675,057
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$3,664,058
Ant-Man					$3,073,116
Iron Man 3				$2,956,855	
Iron Man 2				$2,872,252
Captain America: Civil War		$2,331,622
Captain America: The First Avenger	$1,928,367 (Labor Day weekend)
X-Men: Days of Future Past		$1,893,127
Thor: The Dark World			$1,341,763
Thor					$1,145,076	
Batman v Superman			$1,050,468	
The Amazing Spider-Man 2		$953,927
X-Men Origins: Wolverine		$933,573
Amazing Spider-Man			$758,807	
Man of Steel				$749,233	
The Wolverine				$748,594
X-men: First Class			$635,586
The Incredible Hulk			$423,150
X-Men: Apocalypse			$410,257	
Fantastic Four (2015)			$226,969	
Watchmen				$199,114	
Green Lantern				$183,505

A few films had their 7th weekend land on Labor Day weekend. Labor Day typically results in a 20-30% better drop than a film would normally have.

Suicide Squad had the 7th best 7th weekend out of the 29 films listed.

 

[rikichi]

Impressive for a bad movie.

 

[SuperBanana]

 

[Rentahamster]

Good job, I guess. Imagine how much more it could have made if it was a better movie.

 

[CalamityPixel]

700 hundred million WW?

That's a lot of wonder womans.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

Suicide Squad has a pretty good shot at hitting $750M worldwide, which would put it at #14 for comic films worldwide as well.


Cross-posting this from the box office thread, since it fits in here better. I think that the bad second weekend drop and mediocre third weekend drop sort of mask how Suicide Squad has been performing in recent weeks:

Here are the 7th weekend (domestic) grosses for all MCU era Marvel/DC comic films (spring 2008 to present)

TITLE					SEVENTH WEEKEND GROSS (DOM)
Avengers				$8,905,467
The Dark Knight				$8,622,879 (Labor Day weekend)
Guardians of the Galaxy			$8,102,358
The Dark Knight Rises			$6,116,335 (Labor Day weekend)
Iron Man				$5,620,375
Deadpool 				$4,897,941
Suicide Squad				$4,710,000
Avengers: Age of Ultron			$3,675,057
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	$3,664,058
Ant-Man					$3,073,116
Iron Man 3				$2,956,855	
Iron Man 2				$2,872,252
Captain America: Civil War		$2,331,622
Captain America: The First Avenger	$1,928,367 (Labor Day weekend)
X-Men: Days of Future Past		$1,893,127
Thor: The Dark World			$1,341,763
Thor					$1,145,076	
Batman v Superman			$1,050,468	
The Amazing Spider-Man 2		$953,927
X-Men Origins: Wolverine		$933,573
Amazing Spider-Man			$758,807	
Man of Steel				$749,233	
The Wolverine				$748,594
X-men: First Class			$635,586
The Incredible Hulk			$423,150
X-Men: Apocalypse			$410,257	
Fantastic Four (2015)			$226,969	
Watchmen				$199,114	
Green Lantern				$183,505

A few films had their 7th weekend land on Labor Day weekend. Labor Day typically results in a 20-30% better drop than a film would normally have.

Suicide Squad had the 7th best 7th weekend out of the 29 films listed.

 

[DeathyBoy]

On your right, Marvel.

 

[Mass_Pincup]

Deserved, now WB don't fuck up the editing for your upcoming movies.

 

[bigboss370]

good. it was a good movie.

 

[Mariolee]

700 hundred million WW?

That's a lot of wonder womans.

The world would be a lot more wonderful with 700 million Gal Gadots.

 

[AdaWong]

Harley Quinn movie being confirmed recently makes sense now

 

[Permanently A]

And Kubo didn't even make its budget back.

 

[Penguin]

Good job, I guess. Imagine how much more it could have made if it was a better movie.

I do wonder

Like I thought even if it was a good movie 600-650 would have been a respectful number to cross.

Like without China and a name I honestly thought may have turned folks off... 700 million seems rather remarkable for a good or bad movie.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Deserved, now WB don't fuck up the editing for your upcoming movies.

Editing is part of what makes a movie good or not, unfortunately.

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[Insane Metal]

Well deserved, it was fun.

 

[DeathyBoy]

Editing is part of what makes a movie good or not, unfortunately.

Doesn't matter whether DC films are good or not. If the marketing is as good as it is for SS, they're set for life,

 

[Mass_Pincup]

Editing is part of what makes a movie good or not, unfortunately.

Hmm yes I never said otherwise which is why I want they to not fuck it up next time.

 

[Angel_DvA]

Amazing marketing, great OST and that's pretty much it to be a huge success, terrible movie though.

 

[The Kree]

And still at 26%.

 

[Jazzem]

I guess this means word of mouth was decent on it...?...o_o

Is so, wouldn't surprise me if that was down to the performances. Certainly can't think what else was appealing in the movie...

 

[Nibel]

In some weird, twisted way I gotta give Warner Bros daps for making so much dough out of this hot steaming pile of shit

 

[kswiston]

I do wonder

Like I thought even if it was a good movie 600-650 would have been a respectful number to cross.

Like without China and a name I honestly thought may have turned folks off... 700 million seems rather remarkable for a good or bad movie.

Since Iron Man 1, the only superhero films to make more than Suicide Squad's current WW gross without China are the two Avengers films, the two Dark Knights, Iron Man 3, Civil War, Batman V Superman, and Deadpool.

So 4 Iron Man, 3 Batman, and a Deadpool film.

Deadpool and BvS (minus China), will only end up $20-30M ahead at that.

I don't know how anyone could have expected a much better result for Suicide Squad than the one it ended up with.

 

[jelly]

That's a lot of customers who will think twice about seeing another one of those DC Universe movies.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

But what about the 79% friday to friday drop?!

This can't be happening!

 

[Schweinehund]

I didn't care for the movie, liked BvS (both TC and EC) more, but the salt in this thread is lol.

 

[Betty]

Deserved, now WB don't fuck up the editing for your upcoming movies.

Doesn't look like good editing matters if you still make this much in the end.

 

[The Last Wizard]

You guys act like the movie personally did something negative to you-_-

 

[DeathyBoy]

That's a lot of customers who will think twice about seeing another one of those DC Universe movies.

Fuckin. Lol.

You people said this after MOS and BvS. Just accept the fact that the mainstream doesn't give Thor 2 a handjob, and actually kinda like the DCEU.

 

[Tallshortman]

Didn't it not even release in China?

 

[kswiston]

That's a lot of customers who will think twice about seeing another one of those DC Universe movies.

Ha. Check out my Seventh weekend list. Suicide Squad's 5th and 6th weekends are comparable as well. It's been a long time since people were blindly seeing this film with zero clue about the reception. It clearly has something that audiences want.

 

[m_shortpants]

This is why marketing matters

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Amazing marketing, great OST and that's pretty much it to be a huge success, terrible movie though.

Great marketing. Shit OST. Shit all around. I guess it's my personal opinion but the movie didn't deserve a penny over 200M.

 

[Sectorseven]

Who was the villain in this? I can't remember her name.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

I'm happy it made money because so many GAFers hate it. Mmm I like the taste of salt.

 

[Caelus]

I'm gonna need every variation of the Chris Evan's reaction .gif, fucking dying here lmao.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

You guys act like the movie personally did something negative to you-_-

It stole 2 hours and 20bucks from me.

 

[John Kowalski]

Let's hope some of that money goes into helping victims of home violence.

 

[BTM]

Deserved for the most part. Could've been a lot better though.

 

[entremet]

I enjoyed it. Critics were too harsh on it.

 

[DeathyBoy]

It stole 2 hours and 20bucks from me.

I hope it beats GOTG by exactly 20 dollars now.

 

[Troubled Bat]

Was not expecting it to have such high numbers.

good. it was a good movie.

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