Despite its R rating, 'Suicide Squad' opens to a strong PHP 161 million; beats 'Deadpool'

Suicide Squad

For WB, It feels good to be bad. Suicide Squad opened to a strong PHP 161 million. It's admittedly lower than this year's superhero pics Batman v Superman, Captain America 3, & X-Men: Apocalypse, thanks to its R-13 rating here in the country, but the fact that it still managed to collect that amount is remarkable despite its rating and has also beaten Deadpool's PHP 120-130 million opening.

This huge opening is largely due to the interesting concept of the movie and a great marketing campaign executed by Warner Bros. Also, this marks the first appearance of Jared Leto's Joker which attracted a lot of people. We can also add the movie debut of Harley Quinn (portayed by Margot Robbie) and Deadshot (portrayed by Hollywood Superstar, Will Smith). In the marketing department, the trailers are selling this movie as DC's Guardians of the Galaxy showing the fun interactions, slo-mo action scenes and catchy songs of the movie.

Like BvS, Suicide Squad received negative reviews from the critics. Also, the word of mouth seems mixed (A huge negative factor was the short screentime of Joker although people are still saying that this was a fun movie) which means a huge drop can be expected. But the lack of strong competition can save this movie (notable competition will be The Secret Lives of Pets & Ben-Hur which are both expected to do decent business while Barcelona: A Love Untold has an August release date). A total north of PHP 300 million seems likely.

Jason Bourne added $ 512k (PHP 20-30 million) this week. In two weeks, the action thriller has now collected $ 2.23 million. 

Source: Click the City, The Numbers

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