Now in its third weekend, Universal Pictures and M. The film also brought in $15.1 million internationally during its sophomore frame for a current worldwide tally of $30.8 million. The ride-to-screen adaptation starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt is available to stream on Disney+, albeit for a "Premier Access" fee of $29.99. The Suicide Squad: What to Know About the High Anticipated DC Filmĭisney's Jungle Cruise sunk to second place during its second weekend in North America with an additional $15.7 million for a current domestic haul of $65.3 million. It's just a much more grounded, darker film.” “People might be expecting it to be like Guardians, they might be expecting it to be like the first Suicide Squad, they might be expecting it to be, like, whatever. “This is my way to do a war film in a completely different way,” Gunn told SYFY WIRE ahead of the film's release. The film features several returning faces (such as Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, and Jai Courtney), but mostly prefers to focus on a brand-new lineup that includes Bloodsport (Idris Elba), King Shark (Steve Agee for mo-cap work and Sylvester Stallone for the voice), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), Peacemaker (John Cena), and Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian).ĭropped on the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese, the squad is tasked by Amanda Waller (Davis) with destroying all remnants of a clandestine project known simply as "Project Starfish." Part sequel and part soft reboot of the first movie written and directed by David Ayer, Gunn's R-rated film has been hailed as a much more faithful adaptation of the titular expendable crew sent on dangerous black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences. While there is no denying that people want to go to the movie theater, applying some sort of definitive conclusion about the state of the industry today is becoming more and more difficult." Of course, layered on top of all of this are consumer concerns about the pandemic and this has complicated an already confounding and dynamic movie marketplace. "With The Suicide Squad, we have yet another example of a film whose performance will, of course, be analyzed in terms of its opening weekend in theaters as balanced against its availability at home and whether that strategy hurt its theatrical earnings potential. "With so many variables in play, this movie marketplace from week-to-week is testing the limits of traditional analysis," Paul Dergarabedian, Senior Media Analyst at Comscore, tells SYFY WIRE. Fortunately, the lineup of villains-turned-heroes did much better internationally with $35 million from 69 markets (Harley Quinn would be rather proud of that number) for a worldwide debut of $72.2 million. The North American numbers seem to imply that most fans have decided to stay at home rather than brave theaters again. The Suicide Squad's lackluster bow in the U.S. could be chalked up to a combination of growing concerns about the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus and the fact that the movie is free to stream for HBO Max subscribers at no extra cost. On the critical side, however, The Suicide Squad is nothing like its predecessor, having garnered near-universal acclaim from both fans and critics (it currently holds an incredibly fresh score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). That's over $100 million less than the domestic weekend opening for the 2016's Suicide Squad, which managed to defy near-universal criticism with almost $800 million at the global box office and an Oscar win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. That's the biggest kickoff for an R-rated movie since Universal released its modern update on The Invisible Man in March of 2020. While The Suicide Squad managed to set a pandemic box office record Thursday night with $4.1 million in preview screenings, the highly-anticipated release only managed to bring in a domestic total of $26.5 million through Sunday. Task Force X is back on the big screen after a five-year hiatus and despite the filmmaking pedigree of writer/director James Gunn, the DC team-up project slightly underperformed across the traditional weekend cycle.
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