Suicide Squad: 750 - 800 Million needed to break even?

[Okie_Loki]

Roderic_Blackwood said:

Okie_Loki said:

No China and half of Mexico pulled out, that could have potentially been anywhere between another $50-100 million that this movie supposedly needs. It needs to have a solid second weekend in the U.S. and European countries. At this rate, it may not break $550 million for all we can tell.
Honestly though as I said in another thread, I think this was a fun movie to finish the season.

That's not true. Cinemex withdrew the movie, yes, but Cinépolis took advantage of this and marketed the movie in a big way and now it announced that Suicide Squad its their biggest hit of the year (opening week). Cinépolis has more than 60% of the movie theaters in Mexico and a lot of Cinemex moviegoers just migrated to Cinépolis to watch that movie. SQ earned a lot of publicity because of the Cinemex fiasco and everybody went to Cinépolis to watch the movie, and where there is a Cinemex theater there are like three Cinépolis. So yes, it's a big hit for this movie in Cinépolis and Mexico.

Interesting! Just out of curiosity, do you live in Mexico or were you just watching that situation closely? Because that is some decent speculation/information. Last I had heard was Cinemex had about a 50% share in the Mexican market and thus is why I originally stated half of Mexico would be out. Thanks for posting.