"Suicide Squad" tops North Amercian box office for a second consecutive week. (Courtsy of Warner Bros.)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Warner Bros.' action film "Suicide Squad" topped the North America box office for the third consecutive weekend, while the "Sausage Party" remained as the runner-up and the debuted "War Dogs" took the third place.
"Suicide Squad" earned an additional 20.7 million U.S. dollars, dropping 52.4 percent compared to last weekend, according to estimated figures released Sunday by Box Office Mojo. The domestic total of 262 million dollars, left "Suicide Squad" in good shape to cross the 300-million-dollar mark.
Internationally, "Suicide Squad" has now crossed that barrier, now tallying 310 million dollars. But there is still a fair distance from the 750-800 million dollars that the film needs to be deemed a success by Warner Bros.
The 19-million budget "Sausage Party" continued to prosper in its second weekend, dropping 55 percent and earning an estimated 15.3 million dollars, bringing its domestic total to 65.3 million dollars. The film added another 2.1 million dollars internationally this weekend, standing at 71.3 million dollars worldwide.
Warner Bros.' "War Dogs" took the third spot with an estimated 14.3 million dollars, leading the weekend's newcomers. It earned a lackluster "B" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. Internationally, "War Dogs" came in at an estimated 6.5 million dollars from 2,700 screens in 31 markets.
Laika's "Kubo and the Two Strings" finished fourth with an estimated 12.6 million dollars and received a strong "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. Paramount and MGM's 100 million dollar budgeted remake "Ben-Hur" only gained an estimated 11.35 million dollars, narrowly finishing in the fifth place. While being savaged by the majority of critics, the film scored an "A-" on CinemaScore with opening day audiences.
The rest of the top tier were "Pete's Dragon" (11.3 million dollars), "Bad Moms" (8.1 million dollars), "Jason Bourne" (8 million dollars), "The Secret Life of Pets" (5.8 million dollars) and "Florence Foster Jenkins" (4.3 million dollars).
