Its biggest debut came from Mexico, where it pulled in $1.29 million over the weekend for a four-day opening of $1.43 million. Remember, last year ended with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which earned $650 million before the end of the year. Unless Suicide Squad bombs compared to expectations, 2016 will come out ahead in the year-over-year comparison. I think Donât Breathe will top that, while Morgan will be relatively close. The Disappointments Room likely wonât reach the top ten. The overall box office was a little weaker than expected with Suicide Squad falling nearly as fast as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice did. Given this opening day, the film is on pace for $137 million, according to our model, which is on the very high end of expectations. For now, fans will have to wait to find out which rating The Suicide Squad has earned. This was double its nearest competitor, Suicide Squad, and more than three times the other new release, Mechanic: Resurrection. 2016 - Awards Season - And the Oscar Goes to... 2016 - Awards Season: Oscars - Nominations - Final Look, Home Market Releases for December 13th, 2016, Home Market Releases for November 29th, 2016, Home Market Releases for November 15th, 2016, Weekend Wrap-Up: Miss Peregrine finds a Home at the top with $28.87 million, Miss Peregrineâs Home for Peculiar Children, International Box Office: Star Trek opens just Beyond Age Of Shadows with $16.6 million, Weekend Wrap-Up: Sully Saves the Box Office with $35.03 million, Weekend Predictions: The Real Work Begins, International Box Office: Trek Makes Return Trip to International Chart with $37.0 million, Weekend Wrap-Up: Breathe Blows Away the New Releases, Weekend Estimates: Donât Breathe Wins Long, Slow Weekend, Weekend Predictions: With Labor Day Comes the Fall, International Box Office: Bourne Bounces Back with $56.2 million, Weekend Wrap-Up: Donât Breathe Made the Box Office Gasp with $26.41 million, Weekend Estimates: Donât Breathe Launches with Impressive $26.1 Million, Friday Estimates: Donât Breathe Inhales $10.02 million. Release Date Aug 5, 2016 - Nov 10, 2016. The biggest downside to giving The Suicide Squad an R rating would be eliminating the chance for younger viewers, but that might not be Gunn's concern. Did it work? Genres Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi. This week is the week after Black Friday / Cyber Monday and the new releases are even worse. However, its results in individual markets were mixed when compared to its domestic opening, as well as when compared to Batman v Superman. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse. Read on the the highlights of what turned out to be a crazy night. More... As expected, Suicide Squad easily won the international box office race pulling in $132 million in 57 markets. There are many who think Suicide Squad will earn well over $100 million during its opening weekend, so there’s little doubt it should be the target film in this week's Box Office Prediction contest. In fact, it should earn more than the top ten earned last year. Starting a petition to shut down Rotten Tomatoes is a sign you really need a more productive hobby. There are two films opening wide-ish this weekend. In order to win, one must simply predict the opening weekend box office number for Suicide Squad. More... Three even-matched debutants proved to be no match for the incumbents at the box office this weekend, with Suicide Squad taking a third straight victory at the box office with $20.71 million, according to Warner Bros.â Sunday morning projection. The winners of our Live or Die contest were determined and the entrants with the closest predictions for Suicide Squad opening weekend were... Itâs also the 3rd-best weekend in 2016, and should earn a little more than Deadpoolâs $132 million debut. Overall, the box office pulled in $172 million over the weekend, which is 25% smaller than last weekend. Worse still, itâs a boring year for nominations with very few surprises worth talking about, especially in the biggest categories. (For other families, school has already started.) Or perhaps moviegoers liked the movie significantly more than critics did. The Suicide Squad (Movie, 2021): Box Office Collection, Budget, First Look Posters, Movies Picture, Release Date, All Songs / Music Videos, Audio / Video Jukebox, Screen Count, Predictions, Star Cast & Crew, Story /Plot, Trailer, Hit / Flop, Wiki And Others: The Suicide Squad [Suicide Squad 2] is an American English language superhero film. The film also remained in first place in China with $11.41 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $53.66 million. However, this is still 24% lower than this weekend last year. Nominees in italics are those that have received the most votes from our readers so far in our Oscar contest (which is open to new entries until noon, Pacific, todayâenter now!). I suggest Magic: The Gathering. As for the new releases, the studios will just be hoping no one remembers them in a few weeks. More... As expected, Suicide Squad broke the record for the biggest day in August with $65.13 million on Friday. Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking. The film earning the weakest reviews at the moment is Sausage Party, which is earning 82% positive reviews. The winners of our Bourne Free contest were determined and the entrants with the closest predictions for Jason Bourne opening weekend were... Thatâs still a huge opening, but not a monster opening. Man of Steel barely broke even and the mixed reviews made a few people worried about the franchiseâs future. When that film was eviscerated by the critics, Warner Bros. stepped in and made last minute changes to Suicide Squad. It should be a really close race in the year-over-year competition. Its opening day to preview multiplier was 3.17, which is not that much worse than the 3.28 earned by Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014. It is intended to be a soft reboot and standalone sequel to Sucide This should give 2016 the advantage in the year-over-year competition. More... Operation Chromite, the South Korean war movie, opened on first place on the theater average chart with $31,662. The first trailer for The Suicide Squad teases the debut of a powerful DC villain. Unfortunately, there are two other films coming out this week. Nope. Year-to-date, 2016 has pulled in $7.43 billion, putting it 5.3% ahead of last yearâs pace. Thatâs not to say thereâs nothing to look forward to, as Donât Breathe is earning stellar reviews. That hasnât worked out so far. Its CinemaScore was a B+, which is not good, but not terrible. That said, things might change tomorrow when we get the weekend estimates: the modelâs range of uncertainty goes from $119 million at the low end to $154 million at the high end. Year-to-date, 2016âs lead over 2015 has grown to $480 million or 6.5% at $7.81 billion to $7.33 billion. Last August was a disaster and Straight Outta Compton was the only hit of the month. A weak Sunday would put the two films basically neck-and-neck on that front, and it looks increasingly likely that Suicide Squad will end with less than $300 million domestically. This weekend last year was the weekend Fantastic Four opened. This time last week, 2016 was ahead of 2016 by just over 6.7%, while this week its lead is just under 6.8% at $8.10 billion to $7.58 billion. It is also a little better than its debut here, given the size of the two markets, and the slumping rubles. The Oscar nominations were announced starting at 5:18 am Pacific time. More... Donât Breathe earned a stunning $10.02 million on Friday, which isnât that much less than some people predicted it would earn over the entire weekend. More... Jason Bourne returned to first place with $56.2 million on 10,247 screens in 62 markets for totals of $197.73 million internationally and $347.01 million worldwide. Opening $133,682,248. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. On the other hand, the film managed $13.9 million in the U.K., compared to BvSâs opening of $20.66 million. It feels good to be bad⦠Assemble a team of the worldâs most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the governmentâs disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. Sony is predicting a $26.1 million debut for the film, which will be the best debut for a horror or suspense film since The Purge: Election Yearâs $31.5 million in July, and the best for a non-sequel since Annabelleâs $37.1 million in October, 2014. In spite of these awesome stats, thereâs about as much negative press for the film as positive, and some of it not entirely fair. This could mean critics liked the film more than its target audience and it will have short legs. Nothing is good that early in the morning. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. That's amazing. More... Sausage Party actually earned first place on Friday with $13.5 million, putting it just ahead of Suicide Squad. 1 History 1.1 Suicide Squad 2 See Also 3 Links and References 3.1 Footnotes Amanda Waller set out to create a task force of expendable super-powered agents for the United States government. I suspect a lot of people reading this have pre-ordered the Blu-ray already. Speaking of weak competition, this weekend last year, Straight Outta Compton earned more than all three wide releases combined. Not all categories have underlined nominees, because not all categories have someone Iâm cheering for, or because there are two nominees I couldnât pick between. The re-release of Elevator to the Gallows was close behind with $14,334 in its lone theater. More... Hell or High Water led the way on the Theater Average Chart with an average of $19,417 in 32 theaters. Overall, the box office was flat, up 1.1% from last weekend to $101 million. With an estimated 3-day $15.7 million, Donât Breathe is ahead of Suicide Squad, which will stay in the top two for a fifth straight weekend with $10 million or so. On the other hand, I personally find baseball boring to watch. The 2016 original was a massive box office hit, grossing $746 million worldwide on a $175 million dollar budget before promotion. This is 33% higher than this weekend last year, which is really impressive for a year-over-year comparison. MPAA PG-13. This is surprising, as Suicide Squadâs reviews have fallen to just 26% positive, while Guardians of the Galaxy earned 91% positive reviews. And it’s definitely going to be the biggest budget R-rated movie that’s ever been made. Compare this performance with other movies…. The biggest new release of the week, Sausage Party, was next with an average of $11,042, while the overall number one film, Suicide Squad, was right behind with $10,232. More... A precipitous drop from last weekend wonât be enough to knock Suicide Squad off its perch at the top of the box office chart, according to studio estimates released on Friday. (Like Iâve said in the past, there are two schools of horror fans: gorehounds and those who demand high tension. The dour interpretation of Superman didnât work and the editing and pacing was a mess, but at least it had an interesting villain. (There was another movie, Hands of Stone, that was expected to open wide, but that is no longer the case.) Suicide Squad looked bright and promising in its run-up, but lands on the screen with a big-budget thud of missed opportunities. August isnât as lucky. There are many who think Suicide Squad will earn well over $100 million during its opening weekend, so thereâs little doubt it should be the target film in this week's Box Office Prediction contest. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission, with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behaveâ¦and Amanda Wallerâs government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. are available through our research services. When a fan asked the filmmaker on Twitter what makes The Suicide Squad different from his earlier films, Gunn provided a promising explanation. " There are a few midlevel releases, like Donât Breathe or Peteâs Dragon, but the the size of the release quickly drops from there. Whoever is closest among those two wins the John Travolta Blu-ray Bundle. Suicide Squad was highly anticipated by audiences worldwide, despite negative early reviews and lower-than-expected box office performance of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justicein March. After Suicide Squad, the next biggest release according to Amazon is the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Collector's Edition Blu-ray. The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on Blu-ray is the best, assuming you didnât grab the individual seasons when they came out. 4,255 theaters. Suicide Squad will open with about $135 million, according to Warner Bros., easily the biggest weekend in August, beating Guardians of the Galaxyâs $94.3 million in 2014. Suicide Squad earned more this weekend than the entire box office earned this weekend last year, so it should come as no surprise that the year-over-year growth was stunning at 73%. That will hurt its box office chances. That lead wonât last, as new releases almost never has an internal multiplier as big as holdovers do. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. The final film in the $10,000 club was Equity, with an average of $13,629 in four theaters during its second weekend of release. From the Comic-Con trailer it looks like he’s playing a SWAT team member. Horror films tend to have a low internal multiplier, but the film is still on pace for $23 million, which is ahead of predictions. We … It would take a real collapse for 2016 to lose at this rate. Thatâs a lead of 6.7%. (Granted, Iâve done fewer reviews this year and skipped a lot of terrible looking movies, like Independence Day: Resurgence, Warcraft, Gods of Egypt, Allegiant... Ben Hur, The Huntsman, The Legend of Tarzan. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com. They could yell, âDamn the critics, full speed ahead.â and let the D.C. Extended Universe turn into another Transformers. There were two films that could lay claim to top spot on the international chart. Donât Breathe has the advantage of really good reviews (currently running at 84% positive on Rotten Tomatoes), although it will have a lot of competition over the next few weeks, with films aimed at a broadly similar audience coming out every week for the next three weeks (not to mention a truckload more arriving in October). The film is doing well enough that it should break even, eventually, but it is not a truly monster hit. 2016 wonât be able to match it at the top of the chart, but thereâs much better depth this year than last year, so 2016 should win in the year-over-year comparison. At this pace, the film will be over $500 million worldwide before the weekend, while it is on track for $750 million worldwide in total. More... Summer officially ends this week with Labor Day long weekend. The counter-programming this week is Nine Lives, a talking animal / body swap movie that still has no reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Overall, the weekend lived up to expectations, with Suicide Squad doing a little better than expected at the expense of some of its competition. 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