In the summer vacation 5 years ago, the DC blockbuster “Suicide Squad” received US$133.7 million in its first weekend box office.
But this year’s almost the same title “The Suicide Squad“, better Rotten Tomatoes score, but only got the first weekend score of 26.5 million US dollars, a difference of nearly 110 million US dollars.
It can only be said that everything has changed in the era of the epidemic.
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“The Suicide Squad” Rotten Tomatoes 92%, much higher than the 26% in the first episode of 2016, but CinemaScore’s audience ratings are the same as the previous episode B+.
Although this time it was set to be R-rated instead of PG-13, it was still released on a large scale in 4002 theaters, with a single-library box office of $6621.
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The film was also released in theaters in many markets outside of the US last week, and it won a box office of US$45.7 million, with a global box office of US$72.2 million.
The investment in the film is as high as US$185 million, and Warner has not yet announced the video’s playback data on HBO Max.
But compared to the 746 million global box office of “Suicide Squad” in 2016, can this soft restart DC superhero movie reach the level of the US$201 million global box office of “Birds of Prey” at the beginning of last year?
“The Suicide Squad” is the only new film released on a large scale last week.
Ranked second was “Jungle Cruise“, which was released in the second week. The film received $15.7 million in the second week, a decrease of 55.2% from the previous month.
At present, the total US of the film is 65.3 million U.S. dollars, and the global total is 121 million U.S. dollars.
Ranked third is the universal thriller “Old“, which received $4.1 million in box office in the third weekend of its release, with a cumulative US of $38.5 million and a global cumulative total of $65.2 million.
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The fourth place is “Black Widow“, which has fallen into a war of words due to the bonus of the movie. The film US has a total of 174 million US dollars, which has surpassed “Fast and Furious 9” and became the highest-grossing film in the US during the epidemic.
Although “Fast and Furious 9” lost to “Black Widow” at the US box office, the global box office totaled $661 million.
Ranked fifth last week was the small-cost thriller “Stillwater” starring Matt Damon. The US box office has accumulated a total of 10 million U.S. dollars. No painting has been opened outside the US.
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