Warner Bros. Footage President of Home Distribution Jeff Goldstein has admitted Joker: Folie à Deux “didn’t land” nicely with audiences.
The DC Comics thriller was solely in a position to pull in $114.8 million globally in its opening weekend on the field workplace, round $130 million lower than its predecessor Joker introduced in when it debuted in 2019 – and now the studio chief has admitted he’s dissatisfied with the poor efficiency of Todd Phillips’ sequel.
Chatting with The Wall Road Journal, Goldstein mentioned: “The film didn’t land with audiences the way in which we needed it to.”
The movie had a reported manufacturing finances of round $200 million, roughly thrice what the unique value, plus further funds for advertising and promoting.
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Joker: Folie à Deux — which stars Joaquin Phoenix because the Joker and Girl Gaga as Harley Quinn — additionally didn’t impress critics or audiences, with the image at the moment sitting at a mean rating of 32 % on the film-reviewing web site Rotten Tomatoes.
The film follows Phoenix’s Joker, who’s the mentally sick prison Arthur Fleck, as he falls head over heels in love with Arkham Asylum inmate Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel.
Goldstein steered audiences weren’t in a position to join with Gaga’s interpretation of the character or director Phillips’ “deeper dive into psychological sickness.”
Regardless that the film underwhelmed many, Phillips had beforehand revealed he had no plans to make a 3rd installment within the sequence.
When The Hollywood Reporter requested the filmmaker if he was desiring to make a follow-up flick, he mentioned: “It is not likely the place this film is headed for me. I really feel like my time within the DC Universe was these two movies.”
Phillips had additionally insisted he was happy together with his two Joker photos, and felt like he and the crew had “mentioned what [they] needed to on this world.”
As nicely ruling out a 3rd film, the director seemingly dismissed the thought of Girl Gaga getting a standalone Harley Quinn movie.
Chatting with Selection, he mentioned: “For me, I’ve all the time thought that these two motion pictures form of exist as their very own factor. And, no. I do know you’re making an attempt to get the subsequent factor, however I don’t wish to go into that.”
Why Did ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Flop So Badly?
Joker grossed $1 billion and have become an enormous smash. The sequel, from lots of the similar creators, is trying like one of many costliest sequels ever. So what went incorrect?
