Box office

'Suicide Squad' smashes US August record on $133.7m

By 2016-08-07T17:58:00

Suicide Squad

AUGUST 8 UPDATE: After a patchy 2016 Warner Bros has a rare North American opening weekend to crow about as its comic book adaptation destroyed the previous high-water mark for the late summer month and the studio crossed the $1bn milestone for the 16th consecutive year.

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