Suicide Squad pulled in $20.7 million for the weekend, according to Deadline, which has a full report of the weekend’s box office figures. “Suicide Squad”, which has had a problem sliding in grosses each week, handily stayed at No. 1.
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This file image released by Warner Bros. pictures, from left, Jay Hernandez as Diablo, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag and Karen Fukuhara as Katana in a scene from “Suicide Squad”.
Two twenty-something friends take advantage of a little known clause that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts.
Quietly, because much like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice from March, the film is continually trashed in click-bait articles for its poor quality, messy plot, outrageous premise and choppy editing. One was heralding the foundation of a cinematic universe and the other was a gamble to help correct the perceptions of the first. When you add in the worldwide gross, the film has made nearly $573 million, which is pretty good for a film that has taken the hits from critics like Suicide Squad has. It’s also the third-biggest August grosser ever and has a shot at the number two spot.
The last new release is Ben-Hur.
Paramount: The big-budget sequels “Star Trek Beyond” ($147 million) and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” ($81.9 million) have underperformed domestically – and now the studio endures the chariot-totaling wipeout that is “Ben-Hur”. A complete disaster for the $100 million production.
“A lot of times when you’re trying to market a film and you attempt to be everything to everyone – biblical plus event film – you become nothing to nobody”, says box-office analyst Jeff Bock. “They went big and they went home”.
MGM and Paramount co-produced the remake of the 1959 classic blockbuster.
The film reportedly cost $A131 million to make but raked in just $A15 million on the weekend in the states.
“Florence Foster Jenkins”, $4.3 million. This is just one more thing to rattle the hallways. It’d be unworthy of mention but for uncannily doubling as advice to the filmmakers themselves: You’ve released the movie. “You’re playing with something that is classic”. We’ll always have Paris, the burning of Atlanta is burned on our brains, and we know when we’re not in Kansas, Toto.
It wasn’t easy. Or pretty, judging from critical reaction. He added that the failure of Independence Day: Resurgence and Ghostbusters – two other reboots – also hurt consumer demand for remakes. Or the one for Jumanji? Which it always is.
Still, for all it does right, Suicide Squad does have moments of racial stereotypes.
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Ben-Hur is out now in the States and on opens September 7th in the United Kingdom with a cast that includes Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Toby Kebbell, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Sofia Black D’Elia, Ayelet Zurer, Moisés Arias, Marwan Kenzari and Pilou Asbæk.
