Suicide Squad suffers huge box-office drop during opening weekend

“While the opening [of Suicide Squad] is massive, a title like this should really only fall in the 30 percent range at the outside.

Before its release, expectation surrounding Suicide Squad was phenomenal, many box-office analysts believing the DC film would be the saving grace of a sub-standard summer of cinema.

For comparison, Batman v Superman – a DC/Warner Bros. film that received similar reviews – dropped 38 per cent from Friday to Saturday earlier this year, a drop heralded as bad at the time.