Box Office: August 3-August 6, 2021: THE SUICIDE SQUAD, JUNGLE CRUISE, OLD, & More

Box Office: August 3-August 6, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for August 3, 2021 through August 6 2021 have been released.

The Suicide Squad premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $26.5 Million.

Jungle Cruise premiered in Second Place at the box office with $15.6 Million.

Old was Third at the box office for the second week in a row with $4.1 Million.

Black Widow was Fourth at the box office over the weekend for the second week in a row with $4 Million for a total of $174.3 Million. Worldwide, Black Widow has made $350.8 Million so far.

Stillwater was Fifth for the second week in a row at the box office with $2.8 Million.

These films: The Green Knight, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, and F9: The Fast Saga rounded out the top ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

The Suicide Squad is a 2021 American superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the team Suicide Squad. Produced by DC Films, Atlas Entertainment, and The Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad (2016) and the tenth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It was written and directed by James Gunn and stars an ensemble cast including Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, and Peter Capaldi. In the film, a task force of convicts are sent to destroy evidence of the giant alien Starro.

David Ayer was set to return as director for a Suicide Squad sequel by March 2016, but in December he chose to develop a Gotham City Sirens film instead. Warner Bros. considered several replacement directors before hiring Gavin O’Connor in September 2017. He left by October 2018, and Gunn was hired to write and direct the film after being temporarily fired by Disney and Marvel Studios as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He drew inspiration from war films and John Ostrander’s 1980s Suicide Squad comics, and decided to explore new characters in a story separate from the first film’s narrative, though some cast members do return from Suicide Squad. Filming began in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2019, and concluded in Panama in February 2020.

Next week sees the release of: The Suicide Squad, Nine Days, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: The Suicide Squad will be Number One at the box office.

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