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The mark trails last week&#8217;s gross by 52.4% but keeps &#8220;Suicide Squad&#8221; ahead of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>Credited with $15.3 million in receipts this weekend, &#8220;Sausage Party&#8221; holds at #2.  After two weekends, its cumulative total is $65.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;War Dogs&#8221; starts at #3 with $14.3 million, while fellow newcomers &#8220;Kubo And The Two String&#8221; (#4, $14.3 million) and &#8220;Ben-Hur&#8221; (#5, $11.4 million) complete the Top 5.<\/p>\n<p>None of the new releases posted strong opening weekend numbers, but the massively budgeted, high-profile &#8220;Ben-Hur&#8221; registers as a particularly clear flop.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66783,"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":[7151,7152,7098,6775,7153],"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; Wins 3rd Straight Weekend Box Office, &quot;War Dogs&quot; Debuts At #3, &quot;Kubo,&quot; &quot;Ben-Hur&quot; Follow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Suicide Squad&quot; suffered another sizable weekend-to-weekend drop, but it still claims #1 on the US box office chart. 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