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Suicide Squad's August release might have been strategic, given that August was the only summer month left without a $100+ million opening. The DC flick's competition for August's biggest opening was Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy with its $94 million start two summers ago, giving Suicide Squad a good chance to make a little bit of record-breaking news.
With $135 million, Suicide Squad made a strong debut, but the opening still came in well behind this year's Captain America: Civil War ($179 million, May) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166 million, March) and is only ahead of Finding Dory's debut by less than $100,000. The question now is how well Suicide Squad can hold on going in to its second and third weekends, to perhaps end up above $300 million in domestic sales.
At some point Barry Sonnenfeld and Kevin Spacey must have made a bet wherein Spacey lost and was forced to star in any movie Sonnenfeld demanded. There's no other immediate logical explanation for how Spacey ended up in Nine Lives, a movie so terrible that it was lucky to bank $6 million for a sixth place start. That's the lowest opening for a wide-release Spacey movie since 1997's Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, and that's only because tickets were less than half today's prices in 1997.
Jason Bourne slipped over 60% going into its second weekend, barely pushing past the $100 million mark. Star Trek Beyond also tumbled hard on its third weekend and now faces the prospect of being the first post-reboot entry to miss the $200 million mark. The Secret Life of Pets pushed past $300 million this last week, and is within $11 million of passingBatman v Superman.
Now in its eighth weekend Finding Dory finally slipped out of the top ten, but is still pulling seven digits, heaping on to its top year-to-date total of $473 million. There's still some potential strong competition from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story later this year, but both being spin-offs they may not perform to the levels of their base franchises.
For the full weekend top ten, check out the chart below:

1. | Suicide Squad * | $135,105,000 | Total: $135,105,000 |
LW: N
THTRS: 4,255
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2. | Jason Bourne | $22,710,000 | Total: $103,416,020 |
LW: 1
THTRS: 4,039
|
3. | Bad Moms | $14,204,000 | Total: $51,050,830 |
LW: 3
THTRS: 3,215
|
4. | The Secret Life of Pets | $11,560,000 | Total: $319,578,780 |
LW: 4
THTRS: 3,417
|
5. | Star Trek Beyond | $10,200,000 | Total: $127,901,364 |
LW: 2
THTRS: 3,263
|
6. | Nine Lives (2016) * | $6,500,000 | Total: $6,500,000 |
LW: N
THTRS: 2,264
|
7. | Lights Out | $6,005,000 | Total: $54,714,252 |
LW: 6
THTRS: 2,581
|
8. | Nerve | $4,900,000 | Total: $26,888,794 |
LW: 8
THTRS: 2,538
|
9. | Ghostbusters (2016) | $4,800,000 | Total: $116,711,936 |
LW: 7
THTRS: 2,545
|
10. | Ice Age: Collision Course | $4,300,000 | Total: $53,539,797 |
LW: 5
THTRS: 2,738
|