I think if The Suicide Squad ($168 million) had opened in non-Covid times, its drop from Suicide Squad ($725 million in 2016) would have been closer to 51% (think The Secret Life of Pets 2’s $430 million cume versus Secret Life of Pets’ $875 million gross in 2016) than 77% (closer to, uh, Mannequin 2: On the Move’s 91% drop).Ĭonversely, has the pandemic and streaming push decimated the potential for crowdpleasing/commercial adult pictures to flourish to where there’s really no room for anything but kid-friendly IP, DC/Marvel movies and horror breakouts? It’s rotten luck that the deluge of “Can adult movies still succeed?” offerings were mostly courtesy of 20th Century Studios and Searchlight amid a period where Disney seemingly barely cared about actual Disney theatricals let along Fox holdovers. To be fair, sans China the drop is closer to 62%.Now the “optimistic” explanation is that the film suffered from the above-noted downturn factors which were essentially supercharged due to older audiences being less comfortable going to the movies and the whole “just stream it at home” mentality that has been foolishly pushed by too many executives, shareholders and pundits.
Idris Elba and Sylvester Stallone in James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' Warner Bros.īut around $120 million worldwide is a 67% drop, a bigger loss than Alice Through the Looking Glass ($299 million versus Alice in Wonderland’s $1.025 billion cume).
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