'Joker: Folie à Deux' $37M+ After 'D' Cinemascore – Box Office

Opening of Warner Bros Joker: Folly a Deux The studio reported yesterday morning that it was even lower at $37.8M this weekend versus $40M. Sunday brought in $6.2M, -45% off Saturday's $11.3M. The movie cost $190M+ before P&A.

Overseas was good as we told you yesterday with $81.1M, but, like domestic, prospects are not bright. Here's more on what went wrong with this film under the David Zaslav-led Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate. As we told you, the studio gave filmmaker Todd Phillips the movie he wanted to make, but at a much higher greenlight price of $190M+, which is 171% more than the original 2019 movie's $70M, which had two co-financers, Village Roadshow and then Bron. . Joker 2 There was only one co-fi partner, Domain 25%.

As a wise industry colleague pointed out to me last night, whenever a movie score registers low like this, it's because the audience was sold a bill of goods that wasn't delivered by the studio. You know that poster of Joker and Harley dancing on the stairs? It's not in the movie. As is de rigueur in movie marketing, studios don't feel free to sell musicals as musicals or else no one would show up. They have to hide it and market the movie and trick the audience door to door. Then they easily become a fan – or not, which was the case here. Some critics argue Joker 2 It's not a musical — but it has songs and songs and dancing, and that's what pissed off the Century City AMC attendees at 9PM Saturday who were screaming at the screen. We also understand that the lower 40% for theater Joker 2 generated only 5% of the total.

Despite any great intentions in the filmmaking here by Phillips, this is not the sequel that the general audience wanted to see.

Saturday's gross Friday + previews is off a cliff next to $20.3M. It's all bad news, with 1/2 star on D CinemaScore, ComScore/ScreenEngine's PostTrack, and a Rotten Tomatoes audience score, lower than critics, at 31% to 33%.

Joker 2 Its final domestic take will be well below the original movie's opening, which stood as the October domestic record with $96.2M.

What about weekend 2? by doing Joker 2 Win? Probably—even if it falls off a cliff Including $9M-$10M. MarvelsWhat was Marvel Studios' lowest opening last November fell to the floor at $46.1M with $10.1M in Weekend 2, a -78% drop, and was out of a 'B' Cinemascore. this weekend Joker 2 Jason Reitman faces Sony's sprawling expansion Saturday night, Iconic event Terrible 3 which could make $9M, and focus features' piece by piece That could make $4M.