According to director James Gunn, The Suicide Squad is the best-performing DC film on streaming. The film, which is a follow-up to the similarly titled Suicide Squad from 2016, provides a largely new team of DC villains to wreak havoc while on an important mission on the island nation of Corto Maltese. The star-studded cast also includes Idris Elba as Bloodsport, Sylvester Stallone as King Shark, Peter Capaldi as Thinker, John Cena as Peacemaker, and Joel Kinnaman returning as Colonel Rick Flag.
The Suicide Squad was released in theaters and simultaneously on HBO Max on August 6, 2021, during a time that pandemic-era audiences were especially slow to return to theaters for anything other than Marvel movies. Although HBO Max isn't transparent about their streaming numbers, The Suicide Squad underperformed at the box office and was generally considered to be a failure, especially by the standards of a big-budget superhero movie.
Some might say that the existence of the new HBO Max spinoff series Peacemaker, which stars John Cena reprising his role, would prove that the film was doing well on streaming. However, that show was produced during the pandemic after the film's release date was delayed and concluded filming in July 2021, a month before The Suicide Squad premiered. It would be less of a financial risk to air the series than bury it.
On the other hand, it wouldn't be wise for James Gunn to lie about something that HBO could easily refute, so it seems likely that he's telling the truth. This spells good news for fans of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker. If the streaming numbers continue to be strong, there's a chance that the franchise will live on, though they'll either have to give the next Suicide Squad project an exclusive theatrical window or perhaps just pivot it entirely to streaming from now on. .
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Harley violent 💜💜. All I need.
Oh. Sure.
Suicide Squad is trash with overacting unlikable characters. Jared Leto, ewe
Stop poking the SnyderSimps
both were whack. lol
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Frankly it deserved to be it was funny,entertaining,great visuals,great action and a lot of heart and wasent 2 hours too long
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Despite the charts, the Snydercut got made cause of fan demand versus what the studio preferred…🤷🏾♂️
It was a great movie. Way better than the first one.
THE FLOP SQUAD is the most streamed DC project on hbomax, beating out the GLOBAL PHENOMENON? Baloney! RestoreTheSnyderVerse
As it should.
I mean international it ZSJL In american It ZSJL but where is the number
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Should I believe WB, who called us toxic, lied and covered up racist and sexist behavior, or every other source claiming that ZackSnydersJusticeLeague was the most watched and talked about movie? RestoreTheSnyderVerse BoycottWB
Prove it
I only watch screenrant for this guy.
😂😂😂 nope
I think the reason for this is very few saw it in the theatres.
Snydercut crashed HBO max though
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So just some “he said she said” with no actual evidence
You wish
Good. The Suicide Squad is a much better film than Zack Snyder's Justice League. At least in my opinion.
It's my 3rd favorite movie now
stop lying dudes...come on have some integrity, atleast put his complete statement
For Obvious reasons😉😏
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Good, ZSJL is insufferably long and tedious to watch. Also I actively want the Snyder cultists to be sad and not get what they want. Meanwhile JGtSS is a legitimately great movie and James Gunn is a significantly better filmmaker who understands what's makes these worlds fun.
Oh no, Zack Snyder fans are coming
TSS is superior anyway
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Because it's a much better movie. A wider audience wants to see something like this. Here come the Snyder Cult in 3,2,1....
It's a better movie, so no surprise there...but I'm not sure if the last part of that sentence was even needed really.
Not surprised
No accounting for taste 😒
And yet Zack Snyder's Justice League is the most discussed film on twitter? 🤨
Justice league is a pretty long movie so it makes sense
nobody talks about flop squad. nobody went cinema to see it. it didnt crash hbomax like snydercut/friends/mare of eastwood did. but go ahead & lie lie lie about 150M trailer views & hbomax views 🤣🥴
Well Jamed Gunn is cresting a false narrative ..
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It’s almost like it’s a better movie or something 🤔
It was.. ok. Once was enough for me tho
They lyin once again lmao
Honestly who cares. Both we're great. Why does picking one over the other have to be necessary? This division between DC fans and Snyder fans is getting fucking stupid.
james gunn made a movie that only he and his family went to see at the cinema how profitable it was XD
By views or by hours? I've watched ZSJL a few times, same for TSS... but I would need to watch TSS nearly twice as much to match the runtime of ZSJL... just sayin
I streamed Eternals twice cause i kept turning it off in anger. Does that mean I like it for these streaming algorithms disneyplus
Streaming services don't always release the numbers publicly, but they give them to the creators of a movie. Netflix does it, so HBO max probably does the same. It doesn't surprise me
Big asterisk here…
My Ass 😂
Good movie is way better than that 4 hour trash pile
Oh! No! Snyder fanatics are going to be pissed.
TheSuicideSquad is an absolutely brilliant comic book movie & deserves any accolades!
I'll never be able to believe that. I can get behind WW84, MK or GvK (good movies or not) if listed, but not TSS.
Until the release numbers to the public I’m not trusting a damn thing that studio says. They have a history.
Source: Samba TV
miasmacomics I mean HBO max crashed in the release of ZSJL right
Ha ha ha..
what are the exact numbers Mr. JamesGunn (for both TSS & ZSJL)
Except HBO says that Mortal Kombat was the top movie.
Why are Snyder fans so but hurt about this tweet? Who cares what was viewed the most?
Yes, because The Suicide Squad is, you know, fun to watch.
According to WB own paid for metric system Samba TV
OKAY
Every movie compared to ZSJL performance is a good thing. Maybe it was most streamed or maybe it was to cover loss it made.
His JL was terrible. He's a filmmaker that is just style over substance and he can't write at all. I'm glad the whole thing is in the past now where it should be.
Omg don't tell these Snyder dorks that.
I don’t know how because it sucked ass in comparison to the master piece that was Snyder cut.
Do your research before you post lies
God can people get over snyder cut for the love of Christ I enjoyed it but it was still awful and now we can move on
Bullshit. I don’t believe anything HBOmax or WB says. They won’t release the real numbers.
That makes sense it's a absolutely amazing movie
So what
James Gunn :
Then release the numbers
Good
Lol
Can y’all in the comments chill? Snyder & Gunn are friends so who the fuck cares if Gunn does better or not? Snyder would be proud of him & you all should be too.
Deserved
That's a load of...
Umigurashi5 I know Snyder fans are seething rn
maguirekevin I seem to remember that alot more people started watching ZSJL than finished it.
Leave it to a Marvel Director to help DC I guess. James Gunn, you’re one lucky son of a Celestial.
How does an opinion mean that?
Zack Snyder's Justice League is still being considered the benchmark to defeat. Zack Snyder is truly a remarkable director to have whipped out such a monstrous standard on these amateurs that they need to bark at him over it. Yeesh.
Which one sold more blu ray and 4ks tho?
Si, si dile que les creemos. Que sigan creyendo que somos pendejos.
We don’t actually know
it was the better movie
Well to be fair… you can watch The Suicide Squad twice in the time it takes to watch the Snyder cut once.
It didn't. They never provide any stats
That's a lie.
Nahh not at all XD
WHAT A LIE
Doubt
Maybe beat out ZSJL this month. Stop trying to find favor with WB with this pandering bullshit
Says Warnermedia owned SambaTV lmao. The actual numbers from HBO Max were never released for ZSJL. Miss me with that bs
No it doesnt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
deserved
Well, obviously. Ww84 beat ZSJL
Well, 4 hours is pretty long. I’d still have to say ZackSnydersJusticeLeague TheSuicideSquad
snyder cult thinks his content is all that because they're extremely vocal, but the world doesn't revolve around them
And here comes the triggered Snyderverse stans
And i say that Lost was the most streamed series ever ...
Suck it snyder fans
Zack movie blew
I thought it was incredibly stupid.
Yes of course. It's DCEU best ever movie.
Snyder cultist tears…
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LETS GO
as it should 🙏🙏🙏💯 dios plan
I’m glad 🙂 but I loved both
fucking project
As it should.
This you though?
Duh
Not hard.
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The amount of people on here who feel they have to defend just a decent movie they view as gospel is astonishing
Rubbish
I'm a fan of TSS but did he literally just say this without presenting the numbers? Very weird if true
Yeah. Because JL was still hot garbage.
Its good & watchable unlike the snyder 💩
I honestly, doubt it. I've seen ZackSnydersJusticeLeague about 10-12 times, and just one single time TSS.
Well that sucks
This is objectively a lie. TSS didn't even made top ten (number 14 by the end of the realase year, Snyder Zack Snyder's Justice League closed at number 2 worldwide, number 1 in USA, dominating from March til' May). Source: Flixpatrol RestoreTheSnyderVerse
That's false. We need the worldwide statistics for both. Using Samba TV alone as a measurement on how a movie performed is plain stupid.
Yeah we’ve known that since Suicide Squad came out
Im betting it is.
Sorry,but I prefer ..... DavidAyersSuicideSquad over this one.... ReleaseTheAyerCut
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Lots of mentally ill since COVID-19 lol
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🤣🤣 No one, with half a brain, believes their lies anymore. Don't try so hard.
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Watch out. The Snyder loons will attack.
Snyder fans are shaking and crying and throwing up and pissing and shitting
cringe af
I know why Samba TV's estimates may be off in absolute accuracy. I don't know why they would be off relative to all the shows they measure. If Samba measured TSS as having more views than ZSJL, why would they be wrong about that? As if that's the whole story anyway.
Maybe because it’s a fantastic movie
That's a really biased source, don't you think? Plus, it has always a quality over quantity thing. Zack Snyder is hands down the better filmmaker!!! RestoreTheSnyderVerse
This has to be the lowest , cheapest shithousery in streaming history
Good better than Zack JL
He also said Tss most viewed trailer D
Here Come the Annoying SnyderMites 😂 Dick sucking Zack
Thats nice.
Samba tv was his Source?…
WB refused to release numbers for The Snyder Cut.
If he say earth is flat thats mean earth is flat?
He’s always been a jokester
Source: samba tv 😂 Remember when SnyderCut was released, not all countries had hbomax
Dude. I recall that Hbo Go server went down only for zsjl and friends reunio 🤷♀️
Yes we will totally believe the guy who deleted 10 thousand tweets about fucking kids
Lol his only backup is Samba 😂
Biggest DCEU flop ever in box office! Also.. where is the official proof saying that TSS was big in 'HBO Max' (only on HBO Max though it is not even close to ZSJL numbers in other steaming services worldwide) James Gunn talks nonsense sometimes.
W
Where the proof .. release the numbers
Only masochists (like me) would sit through 4 hours of JL in 4:3
Gunn is pathetic he refers only to Samba.
Sure...
The combination of hbo and hbo max confuses this. For the first 30 days it was only on hbomax now it's on hbo proper as well
'on HBO max' 'it has now been revealed that Zack Snyder's Justice League after releasing in China on the streaming service Migu has now achieved a record of over 500 million views!' 'Snyder's four-hour epic beats Crave streaming records set by GAME OF THRONES in Canada'
Is TSS a global phenomea?
Fine, time to watch ZackSnydersJusticeLeague again then
I mean that's not surprising consider it's the latest DC movie and is barely half a year old 🤷
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We’re literally about to start it.
idriselba Is Never In Anything That Isn't Good Shit 💜💙😎
People will rewatch a movie under two hours lol no ones trying to rewatch a 4 hour movie multiple times.
That’s a lie from a pedo
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