Oh pricey; 2019’s Joker was a field workplace hit, raking in $1 billion on the field workplace, however Folie a Deux has did not beat even Morbius in its home opening weekend.
You recognize, I by no means fairly understood how Todd Phillips’ Joker did so properly on the field workplace, at the same time as in style because the character is. Like, a billion {dollars}? Critically? The man that made The Hangover made a film that profitable? So after all when a sequel was introduced there have been some fairly huge expectations, and after its first weekend, it’s extremely protected to say that these expectations haven’t been met within the slightest. Joker: Folie a Deux lastly launched final Friday, October 4, nearly six complete years after the unique movie, and its opening weekend within the US introduced in… $37 million. For context, the primary movie opened with $39 million on the Friday alone.
That is unhealthy sufficient, however what’s even worse is the truth that that is by some means a worse home opening weekend than Morbius, Sony’s absolute flop of a Not-Fairly-Spider-Man movie from 2022. Clearly that’ll be fairly crushing for all of the leads on Joker: Folie a Deux, however what are you able to do? It is not 100% clear why the movie is doing so badly, however I can solely think about it is a mixture of early unhealthy critiques, and a scarcity of curiosity at what a solo Joker movie would possibly seem like that positively helped out the primary one. Plus, aside from executives who noticed greenback indicators, who even requested for a second one?
It is believed that Joker: Folie a Deux price someplace within the area of $200 million, an enormous improve from the primary movie’s $65 million, which is clearly unhealthy information for Warner Bros. The sequel additionally earned itself a D CinemaScore, the bottom ever grade for a comic book guide film from the agency, beating out 2015’s abysmal Incredible 4, which had a C-. I am positive it is solely a matter of time earlier than we see this one on Max.
