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Posted August 15, 2016 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Suicide Squad Takes Dive


Suicide Squad may not have had the momentum to carry over from its record breaking opening weekend (falling to a $43.8 million weekend estimate), but the movie has still managed to best its production costs as it crosses $465.4 million in worldwide gross. In the meantime, Sausage Party was not able to quite duplicate that feat with an estimated $33.6 million and the second-place spot, but at a mere $19 million to make, the well-received (and definitely not for kids) animated spectacle from Seth Rogen looks to become a hit on its own merits in the weeks Suicide Squad Posterahead. Also critically acclaimed, time will tell if business will stay strong for Pete’s Dragon. The remake of the 1977 Disney film has proven a winner with critics and audiences, but its estimated $21.5 million debut weekend needs to pick up steam (here and overseas) if it hopes to make back its $65 million in costs.

Jason Bourne looks likely to break even on its costs as an estimated $13.6 million weekend placed it firmly as the third highest domestic earning entry in the franchise, while Bad Moms and its estimated $11.5 million weekend is cleaning up, having brought in $71.5 million on a $20 million budget. The Secret Life of Pets is not too shabby either; at $335.9 million in domestic gross and an estimated $8.8 million weekend, it remains far and away the highest earning film currently in the top ten.

In seventh, Star Trek Beyond continues its financial tumble; even with an estimated $6.8 million weekend and $139.7 million brought in so far domestically, the film is still very far from reaching bank on its $185 million budget, and appears likely to bomb before leaving the box office despite its positive reception. It came in just above Florence Foster Jenkins (estimated $6.6 million), the Meryl Streep-led historical dramedy about the (arguably) worst singer of the twentieth century. With no budget, it is hard to see how well it might be doing…but then, it does not take much to assume that Nine Lives (estimated $3.5 million) and its $13.6 million in total domestic gross is not doing as well as might be hoped, even as it, too, has no reported budget.

Finally, it may be last on the list, but not in terms of total earnings…the horror hit Lights Out brought in an estimated $3.2 million, adding to a whopping $61.1 million over its $4.9 million budget.

Weekend Box Office (August 12th – August 14th)

  1. Suicide Squad…$43.8 million
  2. Sausage Party…$33.6 million
  3. Pete’s Dragon…$21.5 million
  4. Jason Bourne…$13.6 million
  5. Bad Moms…$11.5 million
  6. The Secret Life of Pets…$8.8 million
  7. Star Trek Beyond…$6.8 million
  8. Florence Foster Jenkins…$6.6 million
  9. Nine Lives…$3.5 million
  10. Lights Out…$3.2 million
Seth Paul

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."