James Gunn’s first DC movie The Suicide Squad is tracking for a 70 million global box office weekend. It’s With 30 million dollars coming from North America.
While this looks low for a mainstream comic-book movie. The movie is R-Rated and hasn’t even been released throughout the world, due to the pandemic. The film’s preview collections — 4 million dollars — are just a little over another R-Rated movie from DC, Birds of Prey. Which had grossed 4 million dollars just before the pandemic hit.
The amount is still the biggest for an R-Rated movie during the pandemic. The new characters include Bloodsport, Peacemaker, The Thinker, Blackguard, Polka-Dot Man, Savant, Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, Ratcatcher, King Shark, Weasel.
The Javelin and others are played by Idris Elba, John Cena, Peter Capaldi, David Dastmalchian, Michael Rooker, Nathan Fillion, Daniela Melchior, Steve Agee, Sean Gunn, and Flula Borg, respectively.
The film received highly positive reviews, with a score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consent reads, “Awaken by writer-director James Gunn’s singularly crooked vision, The Suicide Squad marks a funny, fast-paced rebound that plays to the source material’s violent, unruly strengths.”