Suicide Squad dominates the weekend box office despite bad reviews

Miranda Ward

August 8, 2016 4:26

DC Comics’ Suicide Squad defied its bad reviews pulling in a whooping $13.898m across 516 screens in its opening weekend, easily dominating the weekend box office with its nearest competitor trailing behind by $10m.

Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne grabbed $3.588m across 483 screens over the weekend to take its total local box office to $13.545m.

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie made $2.766m across 370 screens in its opening weekend, to take its local box office to $3.358m having premiered in Australia on Thursday.

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Miranda Ward

Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.