Joker: Folie à Deux is a bomb. And within the phrases of Batman, some days you simply can’t eliminate a bomb.
Proper now, Warner Bros. is perhaps wishing it might. Folie à Deux grossed lower than half of the unique Joker in its opening weekend in theaters; an estimated $40 million in comparison with the $96.2 million opening for Todd Phillips’ 2019 movie. That’s beneath estimates from even just a few days in the past, when it was predicted the film would make $50 or $60 million in its opening weekend. (Just a few weeks in the past, that quantity was as excessive as $70 million in line with some consultants.) On the identical time, the movie obtained a lowly “D” rating from paying clients who did fork over their hard-earned dough to see the film.
This isn’t the result anybody would have predicted. (Definitely Warner Bros. didn’t; they reportedly spent some $200 million on Joker: Folie à Deux.) When the film was first introduced it was greeted with a whole lot of pleasure; Phillips, who turned the primary Joker into the largest R-rated movie ever at the moment, would re-team with Joaquin Phoenix, who received an Oscar for enjoying the title character — and they might be joined by Woman Gaga, enjoying a brand new model of fan favourite character Harley Quinn. On paper, that was a can’t-miss crew.
However then they missed — large time. So what went fallacious? Right here’s just a few of the important thing causes Joker: Folie à Deux was such a misfire (a deux).
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