>Suicide Squad is a flop. As has become the pattern for DC and Warner Bros., global earnings are being used to cover the damage. According to Variety,Suicide Squad earned $58.7 million abroad, enough to top the foreign box office. At home, it pushed earnings to over $222.9 million — and suffered a 67 percent second-week slide.
>Although it will barely hold onto the top spot for a second week domestically,Suicide Squad is in trouble. By the same token, so is the entire DC Extended Universe. As Forbes writer Scott Mendelson notes, the movie continues a disturbing pattern of Warner Bros. movies failing to demonstrate strong legs — even when released against what should be much weaker films.
>Even as critics and non-DC fans come together to admit that Suicide Squad was a mess, DC apologists have united with their version of “kill the umpire!” between declarations of a massive cinema conspiracy and the desire to invalidate the millennia-old profession of critiquing the arts. In a way, DC’s dedicated fans and Warner Bros. have a point — as long as the fans are happy, then nothing else matters.
Everyone knows it was a flop, but how big of a flop?
By my calculations it's made $640 million, with a "projected" (bullshit) budget of $175 million. That means it had $465 million.
It almost definitely went massively over budget, so it's real budget was closer to $250 million, and we know reshoots basically made them remake the movie. So that's already at a LOSS of 35 million dollars. Add to that the marketing and the fact that studios only see half the BO anyway, and you've got this piece of shit sitting at a $650 million dollars in the red.
Plus they paid for a huge amount of toy tie ins, cds, clothes, and the interest for loans, and it's sitting at over a billion dollars LOST.
I honestly can't think of a bigger flop. This is honestly enough of a disaster that it's likely to kill DC completely.
Ryan Flores
check it out imma flop in this pool
Ryder Wilson
>WAAAAH Make the shitbaby movie go away! >Why doesn't Hillary force DC to give their flop money to Ghostbusters?
Cooper Gutierrez
Why are all DCucks Sup Forumstards?
Joseph Evans
bump for truth
Aiden Gutierrez
>10 shekels have been deposited into your account
Suicide squad outperformed GOTG.
Asher Young
>outperformed >made less than
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William Anderson
In 4 weeks it made more than GotG's entire run, worldwide, without the $96,470,000 GotG got from China (where SS isn't released) and Mexico (where SS got a limited release).
Oliver Scott
Your post is a flop.
Bentley Cooper
edgy babs
Carter Myers
>Marvel getting this desperate
you niggas are winning by a long ass mile, why all these doomsaying asspulls for the "competition"?
Charles Sanchez
Whats that now?
Gabriel White
It's tracking to beat GOTG fag, it still has like a month to make that dolla and this is without the chinks
Nicholas Bailey
who gives a shit? thats a lot of writing....and conjecture.....if you didn't like it, be quiet...some of us plebes thought it was cool
Ryan Murphy
A hundred million is a lot with out china's help
Asher Ross
>tfw every movie this summer has flopped while capeshit still makes hundreds of millions even when its shit
Sebastian Brown
what if they just hate cape shit?
Easton Gutierrez
Ellipses aren't for adding dramatic pauses to make yourself sound retarded, user.
Asher Fisher
>the average DC hater
Christian Lee
Wait, how do you suddenly get a loss figure? $640m take minus $250m budget is $390m...marketing and the theatre cut need to be VERY high to put this movie in the red.
Lincoln Lewis
Do you think making mom freak is cheap, user?
Thomas Parker
kek
Wyatt Ramirez
What is that thing? Is it male? Is it Human?
Jonathan Martinez
>my calculations >almost definitely
James Turner
>the author. >toppest of keks
You can lie to yourself all you want but ss was a hit for WB anyone who knows finances can see that. Also this is an openion piece by a random author who has no idea what the fuck it is talking about.
Xavier Davis
>175 millon + 100 mil marketing (est) >needs to double 300 mil to break even >600+ mil
It's doing fine but isn't a massive success like WB wanted.
Isaac Phillips
OP is memeing. The article is from the first days of SS's release, too, when it seemed that it could still genuinely bomb.
Joseph Hughes
It never seemed like it would bomb
Justin Martinez
Who cares about the box office? The movie sucks.
John Martin
the money it makes doesn't matter when your film eats more dicks than harley quinn at clown college
Gabriel Wilson
They already announced at least 1 sequel so it's not like it matters anyway.
DC/WB is entirely dedicated to making their shitty movie universe as big as Marvel/Disney. If they have to keep shitting out movies until people go see them to the same extent they've already shown they will. At this point Wonder Woman and Aquaman could both fail spectacularly and they'd still push on.
Nolan Edwards
>WB expected Suicide Squad to Break a billion
KYS
Ethan Peterson
There is no China
Oliver Bell
The fucking execs do.
Josiah Foster
JUST
Jose Bell
It's not too late to change sides
Jose Bell
>"As of now, the combined earnings of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad are a little better than one Avengers film"
James Rogers
>battle between 2 teams of literal whos >30 million dollar difference
That really isn't that impressive. What's more impressive is how Marvel managed to make comic book characters no one gave a shit about into ones that generate more profit than movies starring Batman, Superman, and Woder Woman at the same time.
Jackson Nguyen
nu males will call everything a flop if it doesn't cater to their tastes.
