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Suicide Squad box office projections are looking real good right now

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Warner Bros. and DC Comic’s films have been a mixed bag of expectations not always meeting reality while Batman swings around rooftops screaming about his mother. Man of Steel opened up to a somewhat decent opening of $116 million in the US of A back in 2013, while Batman V Superman had a magnificent domestic launch of $166 million before word of mouth caught up to it and successive weekends saw diminishing returns.

Suicide Squad might be the movie that the DC franchise really needs to prove that their shared universe has some legs to stand on. On paper, it has everything going for it: An A-list cast, David Ayer’s directing and a script that wasn’t written by a man who clearly hates comic books and imagines the Hulk sleeping with his own cousin because sanity has long since left that brain-space.

And it sounds like Suicide Squad may be a winner for Warner Bros., according to domestic box office projections from TheWrap. Suicide Squad is currently predicted to rake in between $130-140 million when it opens in the US next weekend, a figure that would put it way ahead of that other wacky release from last year, Deadpool. That Valentines Day movie managed to pull in over $132 million in US box office tickets alone on that opening weekend.

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It’ll still be a long way aways from toppling Captain America: Civil War’s $180 million opening haul, but DC and Warner Bros. will at least be able to dry their tears with crisp new Benjamins for a film that is also predicted to be a steady attraction for most of August at least. And we’re not even counting the rest of the international ticket sales for when the movie releases later this week, locally and abroad in juggernaut territories such as China.

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Depending on those reviews that’ll hit the net this week, of course (ours will hopefully be up tomorrow morning if we can crack the whip on Kervyn later). Suicide Squad stars Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo and Adam Beach as Slipknot.

And don’t forget, we’re still giving away a Harley Quinn jacket this week!

Last Updated: August 2, 2016

15 Comments

  1. I hope Hammersteyn wins the jacket, he needs a new bib

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 2, 2016 at 11:07

    If the movie turns out to be bad do we call it “Suicide Squat” or “Suckicide Squad”?

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    • Admiral Chief - Check

      August 2, 2016 at 11:13

      That comment is bad by your standards

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        August 2, 2016 at 11:14

        Joke’s on you, I don’t have any!

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  3. Original Heretic

    August 2, 2016 at 11:19

    DC is putting a whole lotta hope and hype behind this one. Sincerely hope it doesn’t bomb on them. We, the viewers, deserve a good DC movie!

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      August 2, 2016 at 11:30

      I’ve enjoyed the last couple of DC movies more than the last couple of Marvel’s.

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      • Original Heretic

        August 2, 2016 at 11:33

        Whereas I thought it was the other way around. BvS was weak, in my opinion.
        Still gotta watch Cap America: Civil War, but I hear good things.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          August 2, 2016 at 11:37

          Civil War is a fun movie, got lots of cool moments… and that’s the problem I have with it – that’s all it is -the story is meaningless & there are no consequences for anything. It’s a few steps away from Transformers-level story telling.

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          • Original Heretic

            August 2, 2016 at 11:39

            I so gotta watch it so that I can make a call on it as well. But having read the Civil War comics, I’ve got this sinking feeling that I’m going to be drawing too many comparisons to the awesome comic (seriously awesome, one of the best I’ve ever read!) and the movie.

        • Admiral Chief - Check

          August 2, 2016 at 11:56

          Did you watch BvS Ultimate Edition?

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          • Original Heretic

            August 2, 2016 at 12:00

            Yup. I just had no OOMPH!

      • The Order of the Banana

        August 2, 2016 at 15:20

        Same here – I know I’m in the minority but I thought Batman v Superman was actually a better flick than Captain America Civil War. Granted, I thought Cap was excellent, but I think the Batman movie had a lot more soul.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          August 2, 2016 at 15:36

          Me too. I enjoyed both, but BvS had a real story & if something bad happened to someone it happened on-screen, whereas in CW the story was just something to hang the jokes & guilt-free punching together.

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          • The Order of the Banana

            August 2, 2016 at 15:39

            Yeah, none of the heroes were going to die in Captain America, because it’s following the GI Joe model, whereas the threat felt real in BvS (same with the last Superman movie).

            For all their faults, I like what DC is doing, but going the realism route, rather than merely making a comic book movie for the comic book fans.

  4. The Order of the Banana

    August 2, 2016 at 15:19

    I want this jacket! I WANT TO BE DON THE JACKET MATTRICK!!!

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