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Top 20 reasons why Suicide Squad made so much money.


1. Suicide Squad stinks

2. Studio shills tricked me into watching it

3. Genius marketing

4. Will Smith is box office gold

5. Got lucky

6. Had huge opening weekend

7. Over sexualized Harley Quinn

8. The most over the top film version of the Joker yet

9. Batman

10. Was tricked into believing by the trailers that there would be more of the Joker

11. Little competition in august which gave the film legs. People had nothing else to see pretty much

12. Summer movie

13. Kids were out of school

14. Was not released in China because only 34 films are released there in a year

15. Was front loaded

16. Current comic-book movie mega boom

17. Cool colorful posters, cool cast interviews, etc

18. The Joker. Everybody was interested in seeing the new take on the character

19. All were A list DC characters

20. Margot is box office gold





http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Marvel-Cinematic-Universe#tab=summary

The more people say SS is a failed movie the more I think they are just trolling. The facts don't lie people. And remember SS wasn't released in China which makes the irony even more ironic.

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lol

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You forgot the 200m marketing budget and 2 year long marketing campaign. Also copyingg uardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool.

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Those are both #3.

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Throwing money around is not genius. Deadpool had genius marketing, because it was viral marketing that cost virtually nothing. Spending 200m on marketing is not genius.

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They actually spent $100 million to $125 on marketing. Positive word of mouth is why SS made so much money. All 3 Avenger movies spent around $200 mil on marketing.

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Rumors are they each spent around 250m on marketing. So all 3 movies barely broke even with production costs included.

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I think maybe BvS spend about 250m. Suicide Squad was only 200m. And MoS less.

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that is possible

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Yeah, no, it's all relative. When you spend 9 bucks to make 10, that's not a success.

You're welcome.

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I don't agree with people who say MOS failed because it did not make a billion. Here is why:

1.) It was only the second Superman film in more than 25 years.

2.) It was following Superman Returns (2006), which while not anywhere near a hated movie, did not generate much excitement.

3.) It was about a character who many thought "outdated" and "boring."

4.) It was competing with "Monsters University" and "World War Z" in its second weekend,

5.) It was a reboot and the starting point of an extended universe, which would be competing against the already very popular Marvel universe.

Even though I thought SS sucked, saying it failed financially is ridiculous.

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Who the hell is this jackass. So many losers and their socks coming out of the woodwork.

Die, fatty.

You're welcome.d

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I hope you did not mean me.

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*your

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4.) It was competing with "Monsters University" and "World War Z" in its second weekend,


Yeah. And the rest of the weekends, it fell behind The Heat (2013) and never recovered.

Quidquid Latinae dictum sit, altum viditur.

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