
Despite a 67% second-weekend drop, it would leg out as the last biggie of summer to $325 million domestic and $745 million worldwide (without China) on a $175 million budget. Suicide Squad nabbed $25 million on Thursday, $65 million on Friday and $133 million for the weekend. Thanks to inherent DC Films interest, cameos from Ben Affleck’s Batman and Jared Leto’s Joker, Margot Robbie’s first appearance as our first cinematic live-action Harley Quinn and Will Smith playing the central role, Suicide Squad still become an unquestionable smash hit. executives (after the poor reception to Batman v Superman and the strong reception to the first jokey, song-filled Suicide Squad trailer) to an allegedly ridiculous degree.



David Ayer’s Suicide Squad opened on this same weekend in 2016 amid horrible reviews and revelations that the film had been recut and reassembled by skittish Warner Bros.
