‘Joker 2’ Global Box Office Continues Spiraling Ahead of Digital Debut

After collapsing in its opening weekend, after which being all however eviscerated in its sophomore body, Joker: Folie à Deux witnessed an additional drop in income because it entered solely its third week in theaters on the verge of a untimely debut on digital streaming platforms. The massive-budget sequel to 2019’s blockbuster Joker grossed simply over $2 million domestically this weekend, and it didn’t fare a lot better in abroad markets both, regardless of opening in China. The movie generated underneath $15 million from worldwide territories this weekend, because it neared maybe its last international milestone.

With simply $56 million domestically and one other $135 million from worldwide markets, Joker: Folie à Deux’s cumulative international haul now stands at $192 million. Whereas it’ll possible cross the $200 million milestone by the top of its run, it isn’t going to make far more than that. It is a shockingly poor consequence for the direct sequel to a film that not solely made $1 billion worldwide, however was additionally well-liked in the course of the awards season. Joker received the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Competition, and earned star Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar for his central efficiency as a mentally unwell outcast in a Nineteen Eighties Gotham Metropolis impressed by the movies of Martin Scorsese.

The primary Joker had a notoriously troublesome manufacturing, with director Todd Phillips having been restricted to a reported funds of round $60 million by Warner Bros. He was granted a reported $200 million funds for Joker: Folie à Deux, which additionally premiered at Venice, however to considerably extra muted response. But when the evaluations have been lukewarm, the viewers was positively simmering with anger upon its industrial launch. Joker: Folie à Deux earned an unprecedented D CinemaScore from opening day crowds, and seems to have settled at a “rotten” 32% approval score on the aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes.

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The movie’s drop-off from the unique may be in comparison with Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, which grossed over $1 billion in 2010, and its sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, which concluded its run with lower than $300 million. Final yr, the DC superhero film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom grossed round $430 million worldwide, just some years after the unique Aquaman had cracked the $1 billion mark globally.

Joker: Folie à Deux’s dismal efficiency is being attributed to the introduction of musical parts, and a story that largely revolves across the occasions of the primary movie. Lady Gaga seems because the fan-favorite Harley Quinn within the movie, however Joker: Folie à Deux nonetheless hasn’t overtaken the already underwhelming field workplace haul of Birds of Prey, the final live-action movie to characteristic the character this prominently. She was performed by Margot Robbie in that film; Robbie returned as Harley in The Suicide Squad, which concluded its run with $55 million domestically, however on the peak of the pandemic and with a day-and-date streaming launch hampering its efficiency. You’ll be able to watch Joker: Folie à Deux in theaters, or you may await it to hit digital platforms in just a few days. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates.