‘Sausage Party’ feasts on the box office

It still, however, ranks as the weekend’s #1 film.

R-rated animated comedy Sausage Party enjoyed a relatively strong second place opening, banking $33 million.

Pictures’Suicide Squad held on to the top spot at the domestic box office, despite a big drop in ticket sales and a strong opening from Sony Pictures’ Sausage Party.

Disney’s new take on the story of Pete’s Dragon had trouble taking wing.

$58.7 million is a 56% decline from last week’s debut; however, that’s not as steep of a fall as the 66% drop Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice experienced in its second frame overseas; although, it is a bigger sophomore decline than Guardians Of The Galaxy (40.5%) and Deadpool (36%).

Seeing as the David Ayer-directed film had a $175-million price tag – and that’s not even counting the marketing budget, which was likely in the tens of millions – the film’s drop-off isn’t quite as detrimental as it was for “BvS”, made on a massive production budget of $250 million.

Unfortunately, the villainous team-up received similar reviews, many criticising the film’s editing while praising Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Will Smith’s Deadshot.

The Matt Damon action movie Jason Bourne ran its domestic total to $126.8 million with a $13.6 million weekend – good enough for fourth place. The R-rated STX comedy has earned a robust $71.5 million domestically.

The only other major movie out this week, Florence Foster Jenkins, earned $6.6 million.

In limited release, the Western heist film Hell or High Water – brandishing Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and an astounding 99% on Rotten Tomatoes – rode tall in 32 theaters with $592,000, an $18,500-per-screen average.

The count for weekend box office earnings is not yet over, and any of these films can still pull up these numbers. Where available, the latest global numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

So it appears that while “Suicide Squad” has already brought in more than $465 million worldwide for Warner Bros., its bad reviews are starting to catch up with it.

Final figures are expected Monday.