Suicide Squad On Course For Record Breaking $100m+ Opening
They're going to hurt your wallet really, really bad.
Good news, DC comic book movie fans - David Ayer is on track to save the DCEU.
According to current projections from the financial elves who plot these kinds of things out, the Suicide Squad movie is on course - according to pre-release tracking - to make somewhere between $100-125 million in its opening weekend. That would propel it beyond Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy as the biggest August opening ever.
James Gunn's surprising hit took $94.3m in 2014 on its way to a $773m worldwide haul, so - barring a Batman v Superman like post-opening slump - Suicide Squad would be set for a very healthy performance.
It's no indication of guaranteed, sustained good performance though, as Zack Snyder's ensemble proved. That film notoriously took $166.1m in its opening weekend and slowed down dramatically, though it still took $872.7m in total.
Could Suicide Squad beat it? You'd be foolish to bet against it: though DC's previous release had Batman and a heavier weight of marketing (and expectation) behind it, the buzz around Suicide Squad is tangible, and if it manages to attract good word of mouth in the early days, it could well be on to hit close to the magic billion dollar number. It certainly deserves to, and some of the merchandising that's already being unveiled definitely helps.