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Forums - Movies & TV - Suicide Squad: 750 - 800 Million needed to break even?

GameAnalyser said:
spurgeonryan said:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

suicide squad is killing every other movies legs

Female audience giving A- and younger ones giving A in the cinemascore aggregate is a huge positive sign. This one will have legs indeed. 

Way too early to tell if its going to have legs that being said it should at least make $700 million world wide.  Also I don't think China would have added that much I'm guessing around $50 million half as much as Batman Vs Superman.



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It looks like a made for TV movie...from the 90's.



Not sure why people don't get this, yet. Studios DO NOT see 100% of the box office revenue. They only see about 55% when all is said and done. The production budget also does not usually include the marketing budget. And for a film like this, with as hard as they have been pushing it, is easily $200M, if not more.

You see WB is desperate to get a DC cinematic universe off the ground that is just as successful as the Marvel one, so they are spending just as much as Disney is, if not more, to make and promote these films. Problem is they come off rushed and lack the same respect Marvel shows their characters. So, even though their movies are opening big, they have nowhere near the legs of the Marvel films. That's why Civil War made over $1.15B and is a big hit, but BvS couldn't hit $900M and is a disappointment. Personally, I see the same happening with SS, but we'll see.



Critics seem to dislike the movie (26% on rotten tomatoes) but I think fans of this kind of movie will enjoy it.






Soundwave said:

It'll probably make its money back, Will Smith is still a big star worldwide and that will help, but the script of the movie is so hilariously bad, the people shitting on Ghostbusters and pinning their hopes on this as being some shining example of summer movies played themselves. This script is probably worse overall and you can tell they completely chopped the film apart in the editing room. The Joker is pointless in the film as are 2-3 other main characters too.

Dude, when was the last time Will Smith had a big hit? I'd day Margot Robbie is a bigger star these days.



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Goodnightmoon said:

Just after a shit like BvS they release just another turd... and here I was thinking this could be fun lol Never trust DC movies I guess.

Is pretty sad when you see this amount of money being wasted in such bad projects. I don't think this is gonna break those numbers.

Have you seen the film?  Feedback has been very good from everyone I know who seen it.  

 



Why's it not releasing in China? 



Kerotan said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Just after a shit like BvS they release just another turd... and here I was thinking this could be fun lol Never trust DC movies I guess.

Is pretty sad when you see this amount of money being wasted in such bad projects. I don't think this is gonna break those numbers.

Have you seen the film?  Feedback has been very good from everyone I know who seen it.  

 

Obviously. Dunno about your friends but I didn't liked it, was very dumb, had too much presentations, too little of the Joker, the final part was a mess, the villain is meh and the narration is kind of confusing for such a simple story. Is not horribly boring or anything like that but is pretty weak, it could have been handled way better.



thismeintiel said:

Not sure why people don't get this, yet. Studios DO NOT see 100% of the box office revenue. They only see about 55% when all is said and done. The production budget also does not usually include the marketing budget. And for a film like this, with as hard as they have been pushing it, is easily $200M, if not more.

You see WB is desperate to get a DC cinematic universe off the ground that is just as successful as the Marvel one, so they are spending just as much as Disney is, if not more, to make and promote these films. Problem is they come off rushed and lack the same respect Marvel shows their characters. So, even though their movies are opening big, they have nowhere near the legs of the Marvel films. That's why Civil War made over $1.15B and is a big hit, but BvS couldn't hit $900M and is a disappointment. Personally, I see the same happening with SS, but we'll see.

They don't even get 55% - it's 50% from the US, 25% from China and 40% in the rest of the world.



It will make an enormous profit when all is said and done, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Ticket sales, DVD sales, cable TV, streaming services, regular TV rights, toys and other merchandise.