The Suicide Squad Underwhelms At The Box Office, And It’s A Real Bummer

Unfortunately, we don’t have a clear sense of precisely what kind of draw The Suicide Squad had digitally because Warner Bros. has not released the numbers – which isn’t exactly atypical. In the last few weeks, Disney has publicly released the opening weekend Disney+ earnings for Black Widow and Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise, but those titles were available for a premium price (Premier Access on the service costs $29.99). The new releases on HBO Max are free for subscribers, so success would have to be quantified by number of streams and/or the number of new subscribers lured to the service, and the studio has not announced either. Having them, especially in context of some of their other titles released this year, would help us get a much better perspective on the performance of the James Gunn movie, but we’re just left guessing instead.

The Hollywood Reporter has a statement from HBO Max chief Andy Forssell, who says that The Suicide Squad is the “second most viewed film over an opening weekend on HBO Max” in 2021, but we don’t really know what that means by itself (though apparently Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat is the number one)

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