Five summers ago, the DC supervillain extravaganza Suicide Squad had a massive $133.7 opening weekend at the North American box office.
Despite those eye-popping numbers, critics and audiences were left unimpressed by the film.
This weekend, the complete opposite happened: critics and audiences loved its big-budget follow-up, The Suicide Squad, but its theatrical receipts were underwhelming, pulling in just $26.5 million in its debut weekend.
In the age of Covid, it appears that up is down, black is white, and blockbusters just ain’t what they used to be.Heading into the weekend, the Warner Bros.
tentpole about a ragtag band of super-villains joining forces was forecast to earn somewhere in the vicinity of $30 million.
But due to heightened concerns about the increased spread of the virus’ Delta variant and the fact that The Suicide Squad was simultaneously available to HBO Max subscribers for no additional cost, the film fell well short of those box-office predictions.
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