Joker 2: Folie à Deux from Warner Bros. registered a free fall of -81% with US$7,055 million in revenue in US theaters. That’s the absolute worst result for a DC character movie in the brand’s big-screen history.
The R-rated (adults only) musical Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga It is on its way to being a failure in terms of its numbers. This drop is not a surprise since Joker 2 performed very poorly in its theatrical debut.
Joker 2’s second weekend drop is steeper than the previous worst drop for a DC character movie, summer 2023’s The Flash (-73%). It is also more severe than that of the second weekend of The Suicide Squad of 2021 (-72%), which had a theatrical release on the same day and date with HBO Max; those dynamically distributed titles always dropped in their second weekend.
The only good thing that can be said here about Joker 2 is that its second weekend is more than the second weekend of Wonder Woman 1984 ($5.4M) which, of course, was due to the closure of theaters during the Covid-19 pandemic, and is better than the second weekend of Jonah Hex (US$1,600,000) which has the worst opening in history for a DC film with US$5,300,000.
From the success of Joker to the failure of Joker 2: Folie à Deux
The first joker It cost about 70 million dollars. After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it had several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture (Parasite won, but was the second favorite) and gave Phoenix the acting award. It was the first R-movie to surpass $1 billion in global revenue – the record was held until recently, when it was broken. Deadpool & Wolverine-, and the critics responded positively.
It was the biggest success for Phillips, who had created the trilogy What happened yesterday? At first, the director thought it would be just one film, but the numbers and acceptance of the character led to a sequel. Only this time there was no studio supervision, Phillips had carte blanche, the assigned budget was around $200 million and Lady Gaga’s cache alone was around $12 million. Phillips had also announced that the film would be a musical.
The discontent of Joker fans
After its theatrical release, the film disappointed those who wanted a “reloaded Joker” (more in line with the ending of the first), a criminal drama with more madness (something difficult when the film goes from a prison to a courthouse and back again). ). On the other hand, and mainly, it disappointed the hardcore fandom, who wanted the film to finally connect with Batman.
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