Slipping more than 65%, a common occurrence for comic book movies this year, Suicide Squad added $43 million, pushing to $222 million domestic against its $175 million production budget.
That’s on the low side for a Streep vehicle, and with a $29 million production budget it’s the latest disappointment in what has been a mediocre year so far for Paramount.
R-rated animated comedy Sausage Party enjoyed a relatively strong second place opening, banking $33 million.
Meryl Streep’s latest offering, Florence Foster Jenkins, made a quiet debut in eighth place with $6.5 million.