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I'm not 100% certain this is the best way to arrange this, but it IS clearly better than the previous version, where the comparison of the movie to a video game was listed BETWEEN the director and the cast--that made no sense at all, to me.
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'''''Sucker Punch''''' is a 2011 [[Action film|action]]-[[Fantasy film|fantasy]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller film]] about the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. It was written by [[Zack Snyder]] and [[Steve Shibuya]] and directed by Snyder<ref name= "talks">{{cite web |last=Sperling|first=Nicole| url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/zack-snyder-wat.html | title=Zack Snyder: 'Watchmen' director discusses his next film |date=2009-04-03| work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | accessdate=2009-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Nix| url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/zack-snyder-wants-to-sucker-punch-you/ | date=2009-02-23|title=Zack Snyder Wants to Sucker Punch You | work=Beyond Hollywood | accessdate=2009-05-03}}</ref> and possesses traits of a [[music video]] and a video game.<ref>{{cite web |author=MannytheMovieGuy| url=http://www.openfilm.com/blogs/MannytheMovieGuy/sucker-punch-movie-review-how-many-kisses-do-zack-snyder-and-his-five-young-rebels-get%20/ | date=2011-03-23|title="Sucker Punch" Movie Review - How Many Kisses Do Zack Snyder and His Five Young Rebels Get? | work=[[Openfilm]] | accessdate=2011-06-30}}</ref> The film features an [[ensemble cast]] starring [[Emily Browning]] as the central character (Babydoll),<ref name="exclu">{{cite news | author = Frosty | title =Zack Snyder says 'Sucker Punch' is his Next Movie! | date = 2009-02-20 | url = http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/11025/tcid/1 | accessdate=2009-05-04}}</ref> [[Abbie Cornish]] (as Sweet Pea) and [[Oscar Isaac]] (as Blue).
'''''Sucker Punch''''' is a 2011 [[Action film|action]]-[[Fantasy film|fantasy]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller film]] about the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. The film has been noted for possessing traits of a [[music video]] and a video game.<ref>{{cite web |author=MannytheMovieGuy| url=http://www.openfilm.com/blogs/MannytheMovieGuy/sucker-punch-movie-review-how-many-kisses-do-zack-snyder-and-his-five-young-rebels-get%20/ | date=2011-03-23|title="Sucker Punch" Movie Review - How Many Kisses Do Zack Snyder and His Five Young Rebels Get? | work=[[Openfilm]] | accessdate=2011-06-30}}</ref> ''Sucker Punch'' was written by [[Zack Snyder]] and [[Steve Shibuya]], and directed by Snyder<ref name= "talks">{{cite web |last=Sperling|first=Nicole| url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/zack-snyder-wat.html | title=Zack Snyder: 'Watchmen' director discusses his next film |date=2009-04-03| work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | accessdate=2009-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Nix| url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/zack-snyder-wants-to-sucker-punch-you/ | date=2009-02-23|title=Zack Snyder Wants to Sucker Punch You | work=Beyond Hollywood | accessdate=2009-05-03}}</ref> The film features an [[ensemble cast]] starring [[Emily Browning]] as the central character (Babydoll),<ref name="exclu">{{cite news | author = Frosty | title =Zack Snyder says 'Sucker Punch' is his Next Movie! | date = 2009-02-20 | url = http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/11025/tcid/1 | accessdate=2009-05-04}}</ref> [[Abbie Cornish]] (as Sweet Pea) and [[Oscar Isaac]] (as Blue).


The film was released in both conventional and [[IMAX]] theatres in the US at midnight on March&nbsp;25, 2011.<ref>{{cite news | title =Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' Sucker Punch&nbsp;3D to be Released in IMAX(R)&nbsp;3D on March&nbsp;25, 2011 | url = http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=118725&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1425549&highlight= | accessdate=2010-05-13}}</ref>
The film was released in both conventional and [[IMAX]] theatres in the US at midnight on March&nbsp;25, 2011.<ref>{{cite news | title =Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' Sucker Punch&nbsp;3D to be Released in IMAX(R)&nbsp;3D on March&nbsp;25, 2011 | url = http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=118725&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1425549&highlight= | accessdate=2010-05-13}}</ref>

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Sucker Punch
File:Sucker Punch poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byZack Snyder
Screenplay byZack Snyder
Steve Shibuya
Story byZack Snyder
Produced byDeborah Snyder
Zack Snyder
StarringEmily Browning
Abbie Cornish
Jena Malone
Vanessa Hudgens
Jamie Chung
Carla Gugino
Oscar Isaac
CinematographyLarry Fong
Edited byWilliam Hoy
Music byTyler Bates
Marius de Vries
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • March 25, 2011 (2011-03-25) (US)
  • April 1, 2011 (2011-04-01) (UK)
Running time
110 minutes[1]
128 minutes (Director's cut)[2]
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$82 million
Box office$89,792,502[3]

Sucker Punch is a 2011 action-fantasy thriller film about the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution. The film has been noted for possessing traits of a music video and a video game.[4] Sucker Punch was written by Zack Snyder and Steve Shibuya, and directed by Snyder[5][6] The film features an ensemble cast starring Emily Browning as the central character (Babydoll),[7] Abbie Cornish (as Sweet Pea) and Oscar Isaac (as Blue).

The film was released in both conventional and IMAX theatres in the US at midnight on March 25, 2011.[8]

Plot

In the 1960s,[9] a 20-year-old woman[9] nicknamed "Babydoll" (Emily Browning), is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont after she is blamed for the death of her younger sister. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), one of the asylum's orderlies, is bribed by Babydoll's stepfather into forging the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized, so she can neither inform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to her sister's death, nor reclaim her recently deceased mother's fortune. As Babydoll enters the institution, she takes note of several items that would be integral if she were to attempt an escape.

In the days prior to being lobotomized, Babydoll retreats to a fantasy world in which she is newly arrived in a brothel owned by Blue, whom she envisions as a mobster. She befriends four other dancers — Amber (Jamie Chung), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), Rocket (Jena Malone), and Rocket's older sister, Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish). Dr. Gorski is envisioned as the girls' dance instructor, informing Babydoll that her virginity would be sold to a client known as "The High Roller" (Jon Hamm). Gorski encourages Babydoll to perform an erotic dance, during which Babydoll fantasizes that she was in feudal Japan, meeting the Wise Man (Scott Glenn). After expressing her desire to "escape," the Wise Man presents Babydoll with weapons. He tells her that she would need to collect five items for an escape: a map, fire, a knife, a key, and a fifth, unrevealed item that would require "a deep sacrifice". Before parting ways, he instructs her to "defend herself," and she is confronted by three demonic samurai, which she defeats. As her fantasy ends, she finds herself back in the brothel, her dance impressing Blue and other onlookers.

Inspired by her vision of the Wise Man, Babydoll convinces her friends to prepare an escape. She plots to use her dances as a distraction whilst the other girls obtain the necessary tools. During each of her dances, she imagines adventurous events that mirror the secretly ongoing efforts. These episodes include infiltrating a bunker protected by steam-powered World War I German soldiers to gain the map (mirrored by Sweet Pea entering Blue's office and copying a map of the brothel-institution); storming an orc-infested castle to cut two fire-producing crystals from the throat of a baby dragon (mirrored by Amber stealing a lighter from the breast-pocket of a client); and boarding a train and combating mechanized guards to disarm a bomb (mirrored by Sweet Pea stealing a kitchen knife from the belt of the brothel's cook). During the last of these fantasies, Rocket sacrifices herself to save Sweet Pea and is killed when the bomb detonates, which is paralleled in a deadly fight between the cook and the other girls in the brothel, ending with Rocket being stabbed and killed.

Blue, suspecting that the girls are plotting something, overhears Blondie relaying Babydoll's plan to Madam Gorski. After discovering the gruesome scene around the cook in the kitchen, he has the grieving Sweet Pea locked in a utility closet and confronts the remainder of the girls backstage, proceeding to "make examples" by shooting Amber and Blondie. He then attempts to rape Babydoll, but she stabs him with the kitchen knife and steals his master key. Babydoll frees Sweet Pea, and the two start a fire so that, as a result of the fire alarm, the institution's checkpoint doors unlock. The two manage to escape into the courtyard, where they find their way out to be blocked by a throng of gentlemen. Babydoll deduces that the fifth item needed for the escape is in fact herself. Despite Sweet Pea's protest, she insists on sacrificing herself by distracting and maltreating the visitors, thus allowing the friend to slip away.

The scene cuts back to the asylum in which the surgeon (Hamm) has just performed Babydoll's lobotomy. The surgeon is perturbed by Babydoll's expression and starts to question Dr. Gorski as to why she authorized the procedure. It is also revealed that the happenings in her dream world also happened in the hospital (stabbing an orderly, starting a fire, and helping another girl escape). Gorski realizes that Blue has forged her signature, and summons the police, who apprehend Blue as he attempts to assault a catatonic Babydoll.

Sweet Pea is stopped by police at a bus station while in line to board a bus to Fort Wayne, but rescued by the bus driver, who misleads the police and is revealed to be the Wise Man from Babydoll's fantasies. He tells Sweet Pea to take a seat in the back of the bus, and that she has a long way to go.

Cast

Title

The title Sucker Punch is not explained in the film. Zack Snyder has said that there are two meanings:[19]

There's a mechanism in the movie that sneaks up on you. We sort of plant the seed of this thing, and then at the end of the movie it kind of comes back around. I think that in some ways, that's what the sucker punch is. But also you, the audience, have like a preconceived idea when you look at Babydoll. You think she's innocent and sweet, that she's capable of only a certain amount of things. But I think that's a mistake. So that has something to do with the title, too.

Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, sees the film's title its essential theme:[20]

If you want to understand Snyder's central narrative gambit, it's right there in the title. He gives us what we want (or what we think we want, or what he thinks we think we want): Absurdly fetishized women in teeny little skirts, gloriously repetitious fight sequences loaded with plot coupons, pseudo-feminist fantasies of escape and revenge. Then he yanks it all back and stabs us through the eyeball.

Production

"A while ago I had written a script for myself and there was a sequence in it that made me think, 'How can I make a film that can have action sequences in it that aren't limited by the physical realities that normal people are limited by, but still have the story make sense so it's not, and I don't mean to be mean, like a bullshit thing like Ultraviolet or something like that."

Zack Snyder[21]

Development

Sucker Punch is described by Snyder as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns". The film first gained attention in March 2007. Snyder put the project aside to work on Watchmen first.[22][23] The film was co-written with Steve Shibuya, who is the author of the original score that the story is based on.[24][25] Snyder directed and produced with his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, through their Cruel and Unusual Films banner. Wesley Coller was executive producing.[26]

Warner Bros. announced in early 2009 that they would distribute Sucker Punch due to the success of Snyder's previous film, Watchmen.[24][27][28] "They've never said, 'Ahh, it could have been shorter,' or, 'Too bad it's so R-ish.' And that's really cool. I'm challenging them again with Sucker Punch."[24][27][28] In early interviews, Snyder stated that he would make Sucker Punch an R-rated film, but a later interview stated that he was aiming for it to be rated PG-13.[29] In its theatrical release, the movie was ultimately rated PG-13. Snyder was ultimately forced to cut many crucial scenes before the film's release in order to satisfy the MPAA's censors, but claimed that the home media release of the film will be a director's cut and closer to his original vision.[30]

When Snyder was in San Diego hosting a Blu-ray live screening of Watchmen for Comic-Con, he handed out t-shirts for Sucker Punch featuring the first art for the film. The art was designed by Alex Pardee of Snafu Comics.[31] Pre-production began in June 2009 in Canada. Snyder had also added that he enjoyed the freedom of filming his own original script.[32] Photographer Clay Enos was hired to take still pictures on set and to take portraits of the main actors.[33]

Snyder has stated one interpretation of the film is that it is a critique on geek culture's sexism and objectification of women.[30]

Casting

Cast of Sucker Punch at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International

Before casting started in March 2009,[34] Snyder revealed his ideal cast for the feature film.[35] He decided to go with an all-female cast with this film saying that "I already did the all-male cast with 300, so I'm doing the opposite end of the spectrum."[36][37][38]

Snyder had tapped Amanda Seyfried first for the lead role, Babydoll.[34] "We'll see. We're trying to, so...She's great. It would be great if it worked out", Snyder said when asked if Seyfried was up for the role.[39][40][41] Snyder had also offered roles to Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood, Emma Stone, and Vanessa Hudgens.[42] Despite Snyder's aim to have her play the role of Babydoll, the actress turned it down due to conflicting schedules between the film and her HBO series Big Love.[43] Days later, Browning agreed to replace Seyfried in the role. During the confirmation of her involvement, Hudgens, Wood, Cornish and Stone were all still in talks.[10]

Wood dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts with her recurring role in HBO's True Blood and her stage production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.[44] She was later replaced by Malone for the role of "Rocket".[45] Chung signed up for the role of "Amber", which Stone was supposedly tapped to portray.[12][14] Gugino, who was cast as "Madam Gorski", a psychiatrist in the asylum, previously worked with Snyder on Watchmen.[46] Hamm was confirmed in late August 2009 to be playing "High Roller." Isaac was also tapped at around the same time.[16][47][48]

Snyder confirmed that Glenn agreed to be involved in the project, portraying "The Wise Man".[18] Hudgens describes her role as the "tough one."[49][50] "I'm so stoked about it", she said. "I kept telling everyone, 'I want to do an action film.' But they were like, 'Maybe in a few years.' So I'm like, 'Ha, in your face. I am doing one now!'"[51] Each of the five girls has two characters—one is in the real world and the other one in the fever dreams.[52]

Training

Prior to filming, the cast had trainings and fight evaluations. Training lasted for twelve weeks. It started June 2009 in Los Angeles and continued through filming. The main women in the film were told to deadlift up to 210 pounds (95 kg) for their roles. Damon Caro, the stunt coordinator from 300 and Watchmen, Snyder's previous films, was hired for the stunts, training and fight choreography in the movie.[52][53] The other cast members started training without Hudgens while she was filming other films, including Beastly.[54] Snyder has stated that when the girls are fighting, "[like] they're on their way to kill a baby dragon, they've killed all of these orc-like creatures and they're entering a door [and] it's this classic, real Navy SEAL style room clearing. They have machine guns but they're fighting mythic creatures, impossible creatures. The hand to hand stuff is all brutal, because Damon [Caro] did all the [fights] in Bourne and it has that vibe to it."[55] In the characters' imaginations, Snyder remarks that "they can do anything."[56]

Abbie Cornish has stated that the rest of them were training, prior to filming, six hours a day, five days a week, and were oriented with martial fighting, swords and choreography.[11] Damon Caro, known for choreographing stunts from films like 300 and the Bourne film series, worked with Snyder again for Sucker Punch, as he had previously worked on all of Snyder's past films.[57][58][59]

Production and design

Pre-production took place in Los Angeles in June 2009 then moved to Vancouver in July. Principal photography began in September 2009 and concluded in January 2010; filming took place in Vancouver. With an $82 million budget,[60] production took place in September 2009 and was expected to last until January 2010 in Vancouver and Toronto.[7][61] Originally, production would have started in June 2009, but it was postponed.[62] Production concluded on January 22, 2010.[63] Snyder confirms that prior to the set production date, he already shot some fantasy sequences for Sucker Punch.[32] Snyder shares that the film is a "stylized motion picture about action and sort of landscapes of the imagination and things of that nature." Snyder has been decided on the film's title for some time and says it concerns a pop-culture reference. "It's about hopefully what the movie feels like when you watch it, more than a specific 'Oh, it's a story of this person.' It's all stylized."[64]

The film includes an imaginary brothel that the five girls enter in the alternate reality, where singing and dancing take place. Hudgens was featured in a lush dancing scene and does a techno-belly dance musical number in the cavernous night club set while the character of Browning is tangling with a mutant German officer.[65] It also includes dragons, aliens and a scenario of World War I due to the time setting of the film. Snyder expressed his interest in the film's content:

On the other hand, though it's fetishistic and personal, I like to think that my fetishes aren't that obscure. Who doesn't want to see girls running down the trenches of World War One wreaking havoc? I'd always had an interest in those worlds — comic books, fantasy art, animated films. I'd like to see this, that's how I approach everything, and then keep pushing it from there.[65]

Rick Carter served as production designer[66] while the visual effects of the film were done by Animal Logic with 75 visual effects specialists, and the Moving Picture Company (MPC) who were awarded over 120 shots.[67] Sucker Punch operates on three levels—a reality, then a sub-reality where the psych ward world shifts into a strange high-roller's brothel. The final level is made up of a dream world where more action sequences that are removed from time and space take place.[11] Warner Bros. announced earlier that Sucker Punch would be released in 3D format.[68] Zack Snyder describes the conversion into 3D as a completely different process.[69] However, it was later announced that the film would not be presented in 3D. Snyder is currently mapping out the Blu-ray interactivity for the film in preparation for the film's home media release.[70]

Snyder wanted to design the movie as something with no limits, considering that he co-wrote the script from an original idea. He added that he wanted it to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you're just loose and going nuts."[71]

Music

Main article: Sucker Punch (soundtrack)

Music plays an integral role in the film. "In the story, music is the thing that launches them into these fantasy worlds", Snyder explains.[36] Music becomes the backbone of the film. They used actual songs for Sucker Punch that would create suitable moods. It plays an important factor in the film and is used as it was in Moulin Rouge!, according to Snyder.[24] Dance choreography was spearheaded by Paul Becker, with Jeff Dimitriou as associate. Carla Gugino, who plays a "madam" in the brothel, had to take singing lessons for scenes wherein she plays a choreographer madam in the brothel.[15] The brothel scenario has "sexy" songs, as Jamie Chung described, and dance fantasy scenes.[72] Due to time constraints, Snyder was forced to cut out most of the dance sequences for the theatrical cut of the film, but there is one during the credits. He did mention that for the home media release of the film's "director's cut", the dance scenes will be re-inserted.[30]

In September 2009, Chung reported that they had begun recording tracks for Sucker Punch.[58] Oscar Isaac revealed that the songs used in the film are not original, but are new arrangements of existing music.[73]

Tyler Bates (who composed all of Snyder's previous live-action films) and Marius de Vries (who composed the score for the film Moulin Rouge!) wrote the film score. The official trailers contain samples from the songs "Prologue" by Immediate Music, "Crablouse" by Lords of Acid, "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, "And Your World Will Burn" by Cliff Lin, and "Panic Switch" by the Silversun Pickups.

Sucker Punch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on March 22, 2011[74] by WaterTower Music. The soundtrack album contains nine tracks, all covers, remixes and mash-ups (as the label website says, "wildly re-imagined versions of classic songs") of tracks by Alison Mosshart, Björk, Queen, and performances from stars Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac.

Marketing

Sucker Punch participated in the Comic-Con 2010 and showed the first footage of the film, featuring the songs "Prologue" by Immediate Music and "The Crablouse" by Lords of Acid. The trailer was released on Tuesday July 27 on Apple Trailers. The second official trailer was released on Wednesday November 3 and was attached to Due Date, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and Black Swan.[69] In February 15 Titan Books released the official "Art of the Film" book full of pictures, stills in a way to celebrate the film's release in the next month.

The film received a PG-13 rating. To avoid an R rating, a sex scene was cut. Browning said, "I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm... I think it's great for this young girl to actually take control of her own sexuality." She added, "[The MPAA] got Zack to edit the scene and make it look less like she's into it. Zack said he edited it down to the point where it looked like he was taking advantage of her. That's the only way he could get a PG-13 [rating] and he said, 'I don't want to send that message.'"[75]

Home Media

Sucker Punch was released on June 28, 2011 on DVD and a Blu-ray Combo Pack. An R-rated[76] extended cut was released on the Blu-ray release, which adds an additional 18 minutes to the film.[2] The additional bonus features include deleted scenes.

Reception

Critical reception

Sucker Punch received mostly unfavorable reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that only 22% of 182 critics have given the film positive reviews.[77] As of 6 April 2011, the film holds a 33 out of 100 on Metacritic, signifying "Generally Unfavorable" reviews among 29 critics.[78] Although Snyder himself had claimed that he wanted the film to "be a cool story and not just like a video game where you’re just loose and going nuts,"[71] some critics compared the film unfavorably to a video game in their reviews. Richard Roeper gave the film a D, saying that it "proves a movie can be loud, action-packed and filled with beautiful young women—and still bore you to tears."[79] The Orlando Sentinel gave the movie one out of four stars calling it "an unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold".[80] The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin wrote, "with its quests to retrieve magical totems, clearly demarcated levels, and non-stop action, Snyder’s clattering concoction sometimes feels less like a movie than an extended, elaborate trailer for its redundant videogame adaptation."[81]

Sucker Punch has also drawn criticism for its depiction of women. Critics have described the movie as misogynistic and others have expressed concern over its treatment of sexual violence. Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune stated that "Zack Snyder must have known in preproduction that his greasy collection of near-rape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy anyone but himself."[82] St. Petersburg Times critic Steve Persall found that the most offensive fact about the film was that it "suggests that all this objectification of women makes them stronger. It's supposed to be reassuring that men who beat, berate, molest and kill these women will get what's coming to them. Just wait, Snyder says, but in the meantime here's another femininity insult to keep you occupied."[83] A.O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as a "fantasia of misogyny" that pretends to be a "feminist fable of empowerment" and found that the film's treatment of sexual violence was problematic.[84] Peter Debruge of Variety argued that the film is "misleadingly positioned as female empowerment despite clearly having been hatched as fantasy fodder for 13-year-old guys" and that the fact that the young women in the movie are "under constant threat of being raped or murdered" makes the film "highly inappropriate for young viewers."[85] However, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times suggested that the film neither objectifies nor empowers women and that instead it is a "wonderfully wild provocation — an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world."[86] Meanwhile, in a retrospective article about the critical reception of Sucker Punch, James MacDowell of Alternate Takes has claimed that the film is "one of the most widely misunderstood films of recent years", arguing that it does not in fact aim to offer female 'empowerment', but is instead "a deeply pessimistic analysis of female oppression" because it makes clear that, "just as men organize the dances, so do they control the terms of the fight scenes; in neither do the women have true agency, only an illusion of it."[87]

Box office

Sucker Punch grossed $19,058,199 in its first weekend, an opening that placed it at the #2 rank behind Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.[88] It also opened in 23 markets that weekend, standing at sixth in the overseas box office with $6.5 million.[89] The following weekend, it dropped to seventh place in North America with $6 million,[90] but fared better overseas, where an expansion to 16 more countries led to a $11.5 million gross which topped the international ranking.[91] Sucker Punch has so far grossed $36,392,502 domestically and $53,400,000 abroad, leading to a worldwide total of $89,792,502.[3]

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