10 Films That Could Join The Billion-Dollar Club In 2016
4. Suicide Squad
Where Batman V Superman fizzled, Warner Bros. sincerely hope Suicide Squad will ignite and inject some much-needed goodwill into their DCEU master plan when it opens in August. It’s a little bizarre, unfair even, to label a film that made almost $900 million dollars a failure, and from a financial standpoint that clearly isn’t the case. Nonetheless, WB are in dire need of a superhero movie that gets people excited, which definitely sums up the prevailing mood on Suicide Squad.
And these must be strange times indeed if it’s possible that a movie about a ragtag group of antiheroes, most of whom are complete unknowns to the movie-going public at large, could outperform BvS. The likes of Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto as everyone’s favourite Clown Prince of Crime feature among "the worst of the worst", who team up to tackle an as yet unknown threat.
No two ways about it, Suicide Squad has people curious, and positively so. The trailers have racked up tens of millions of views and there’s an air of expectancy that, much like Deadpool, the 'worst heroes ever' will be another breath of irreverent air in a too-often formulaic genre. A billion-dollar take might be a little optimistic but big numbers are all but guaranteed.