Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Box Office: “Suicide Squad” Smashes August Records Despite Efforts to Kill it by Fanboys

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Everyone tried to kill “Suicide Squad.” I’ve never seen such hostility toward a movie that’s based on a comic book. On a comic book!

But it didn’t work. The DC Comics bonanza is eyed at $135.1. million for the weekend. That’s a record for an August release. “Guardians of the Galaxy” is now number 2 with $94.3 million.

Alas, “Suicide Squad” could have hit closer to $150 million if fan boys and others hadn’t tried to strangle it. The Friday opening of $65 million pointed to a possible bigger weekend. But a sharp drop off on Saturday put the kibosh on that.

With these numbers however, another “Suicide Squad” movie — actually two more– are inevitable since the cast signed for three movies. Plus there will be standalone movies for some of the characters starting with Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and maybe Jared Leto’s Joker.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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