The Suicide Squad, Top Box Office notwithstanding blood -warm $26.5M Opening Weekend. Although domestic box office charts the film’s U.S. tally came in under industry expectations. Which projected the film to make around $30 million.
This weekend’s performance of The Suicide Squad shows yet again the irregularity of a theatrical marketplace whose success rises and falls based on a progress set of disparate factors including not only the usual film-centric metrics. But also the impact of concerning pandemic news on consumer behavior.
Gunn shares, “I think I really did just trust myself for the first time ever to create something that took all the risks. I felt a lot of responsibility because I was being given money to make this huge film.
I knew that not too many directors have had this much money to make a movie that could still take risks. For the sake of fans, for the sake of myself, for the sake of cinema in general, to be able to do something that goes outside the box in this council was important to me.
One of the reasons for the film’s poor box office performance can be the smaller audience. Not only are many theatres across the world still closed. But it is also R-Rated, thus its audience is limited.