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A Friday gross of $2.6 million slots &#8220;Star Trek Beyond&#8221; at #5, one place ahead of new release &#8220;Nine Lives&#8221; ($2.4 million, #6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[6980,6981,7033,6935,6775,6809],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Suicide Squad&quot; Dominates Friday Box Office, Sets August Record<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With a single-day total that easily ranks as the greatest ever achieved in the month of August, &quot;Suicide Squad&quot; dominated the Friday US box office. 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