BOX OFFICE: 40% Fri-Sat Drop For SUICIDE SQUAD

After a stellar Friday night haul for Warner Bros. and David Ayer's Suicide Squad, a massive 40% drop on Saturday brings weekend box office expectations crashing back to the $130 million range.

By MarkJulian - Aug 07, 2016 05:08 AM EST

Filed Under: Suicide Squad

After grossing $65.1 million on Friday in North America ($20.5 million from previews on Thursday and $44.6 million on Friday), Suicide Squad suffered a massive 40% drop on Saturday, and may gross less than $40 million for the day. If that trend continues for another massive drop on Sunday, the overall weekend box office haul for the film could end up being in the $130 million range after early estimates ballooned to the $140-$150 million range.

Given the scathing reviews, it seemed likely that Suicide Squad was headed for a massive drop during the SECOND weekend of release, similar to what happened to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but it appears that the negative reviews are actually affecting the opening weekend box office numbers.

Despite setting records with its $166 million domestic opening weekend back in March , Dawn of Justice also dropped 38% from Fri-Sat during that first weekend. Negative reviews and word of mouth caused the film to drop an unprecedented 68% in its second weekend of release. In comparison, earlier this year, Deadpool saw just a 10% drop going from Fri-Sat during its first weekend in North American theaters and Captain America: Civil War had a small percentage decrease as well, at only 18%. Fox's second comic book movie released this year, X-Men: Apocalypse, saw a 22% drop from Fri-Sat during its first weekend in domestic theaters.

Next weekend, Suicide Squad will face box office competition from Pete's Dragon and Sausage Party.

SAT drop for #SuicideSquad huge, even bigger than might be expected. May tumble by over 40% & end below $40M. Maybe $130M-ish wknd now.
— Gitesh Pandya (@GiteshPandya) August 7, 2016

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jerryblake - 8/7/2016, 5:06 AM

16 km on the bike to see the movie ... waiting in the cinema for the movie to begin ... 40 minutes of wating ... the girl came and said that due to technical issues the movie will start after 10 minutes .... after ten minutes some guy said it will take 10 minutes more ... after that the guy came and said we can go home.

Conutandream - 8/7/2016, 5:58 AM

@jerryblake - lucky you

Anonymous47 - 8/7/2016, 5:06 AM

Second or third not sure

BenHollidayTalk - 8/7/2016, 5:08 AM

Not surprised at all. This was inevitable after midnight screenings and prebookings.

The film is not decent in any way, shape or form:

Megaman - 8/7/2016, 12:22 PM

@BenHollidayTalk - and still somehow light years ahead of Iron Man 2 and 3....odd.

keeters - 8/7/2016, 5:08 AM

"I'm not gonna kill ya! I'm just gonna hurt ya really, really bad!"
-Joker, to theatrical audiences

heisei24 - 8/7/2016, 5:08 AM

DJRock93 - 8/7/2016, 5:13 AM

The bell cannot be unrung, the god is dead!

ExSOLDIER - 8/7/2016, 5:13 AM

JonTargaryen94 - 8/7/2016, 5:14 AM

So its still on track to meet WB's estimates of 125mill opening. Still ok, it will defs be at 250mill WW after the weekend.

It will finish out at 450-500.

TrueMarvel - 8/7/2016, 5:14 AM

I hope WB and DC fans will learn from this humble pie that they are about to eat.

DeadClunge - 8/7/2016, 5:15 AM

Emotional trolls.........commence bitching

Gose - 8/7/2016, 5:18 AM

Better call DAMAGE control @ MARVEL....

Skwad - 8/7/2016, 5:18 AM

This thread is gonna be hilarious.

Already started being hilarious.

Continue

Skwad - 8/7/2016, 5:22 AM

Like watching Trump supporters celebrate the DNC hacks...pathetically hilarious in the long run

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