DIS - Warner Bros. retakes box-office spotlight with 'The Suicide Squad'

The third month of blockbuster season at the box office is starting with Warner Bros. (NYSE:T) getting the weekend almost entirely to itself. A week after Disney (NYSE:DIS) cleared the decks with a 4,310-theater opening for its family-friendly Jungle Cruise, the only wide release for this weekend is hard R-rated The Suicide Squad, Warner's latest entry in its superhero DC Extended Universe collection. If the title is easily confused with DC's 2016 Suicide Squad, that's because the new film seems somewhere between a sequel and a re-imagining of a film about a team of supervillains working for "the good guys" that did big box office five years ago but was critically savaged. And after $4.1 million in Thursday night previews, the much better reviewed The Suicide Squad is expected to lead the weekend with $30 million-plus - maybe enough to keep up some flagging momentum in theaters after Jungle Cruise

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Warner Bros. retakes box-office spotlight with 'The Suicide Squad'