August is here, and with its first weekend comes just one new wide releaseThe Suicide Squad, the follow-up to Suicide Squad, which had the biggest August opening ever ($133.7 million) in 2016 in the same frame.
A lot has changed since then, and that opening is bigger than any single weekend’s combined box office total this year.
While the box office does not seem to have taken a hit due to concerns over rising Covid cases in recent weeks, recovery has still been slow, and expectations are muted for the latest film in the DC Extended Universe.James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) steps into the director’s chair for the standalone installment which is somewhere in between being a sequel and a reboot.
It sees the return of Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, and Viola Davis, but otherwise it’s a new cast of actors and characters.
Gone is
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