That was down sharply from its opening weekend take of US$133.7 million, but still enough to edge out new releases Sausage Party and Pete’s Dragon.
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“Suicide Squad” is a movie about a task force composed of heavy hitting criminal meta human villains that have proven to be useful assets to the government. To that end, the film is fighting bad reviews and poor word-of-mouth as it tries to keep bringing in crowds. It cost $65 million to make, making its opening a disappointment. The negative reception caused a massive 67.3 percent drop in its box office take for its second weekend to $43.7 million, according to Box Office Mojo. It opened in first place in Japan this weekend with US$10 million.
Meanwhile, the “Suicide Squad” movie team is reportedly looking at a $300 million sales to at least go alongside other box office movies such as “The Secret Life of Pets”, Comic Book Resources reported.
So it appears that while “Suicide Squad” has already brought in more than $465 million worldwide for Warner Bros., its bad reviews are starting to catch up with it.
Moviegoers helped Suicide Squad score the biggest August debut in cinema history last weekend, smashing the $94.3 million (£72.9 million) record set by Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy adaptation in 2014. Earlier this year Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice similarly disappointed when it declined 69 percent in week two.
However, the DC Comics movie’s second-weekend dropoff is not quite as dramatic as Batman v Superman’s.
After a release on an expansive 3,702 screens in the USA, it made just $21.5 million (£16.6 million), not much more than Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG”, which made $18.7 million (£14.4 million), but has so far proved a rare, but decisive box office flop for the director. ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ debuted on 1,528 screens, but only managed to collect $6.5 million and land in the #8 spot. The low budget ($19 million) animated R-rated film about talking foodstuffs pulled down over $36 million and could have legs to continue for a few weeks yet.
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Sausage Party, an animated adult comedy from Sony, with Seth Rogen voicing the lead meat product, is what Variety called a madcap insane salad of industrial-strength raunch.
