'Joker 2' is in such poor shape that it's not even

This week, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ and ‘Terrifier 3’ are the psychotic clowns competing at the box office.

To confirm ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’s failure, all that was needed was the second week’s box office data to see if word of mouth had the expected effect. In the second week, the box office drop has been even greater than expected, a surprise after its premiere when it failed to meet modest expectations.

From above. Despite low box office sales, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ was the most-watched film last week. However, negative press and weak reviews have dropped it to third place in the US box office with $7.05 million, behind even “Beetlechus Beetlechus,” which was released almost a month and a half ago. The American box office dropped 82% from its 37.6 million debut. Since ‘The Marvels’ (78.1%) and ‘Quantummania’ (69.9%), a superhero film had such a phenomenon in its second week.

An absolute failure. Additionally, the international box office took 22.7 million, down 70.5% from the previous week. So far, the film has earned 165.3 million dollars globally. ‘Joker 2’ is unlikely to improve or reach 200 million in takings, which would be disastrous because Warner would have needed 450 million to make a profit.

Another clown. The downside is that the film is number one at the US box office despite having a much smaller budget than the second Joker film. The third installment of the brutal and ultra-gore saga of another killer clown is ‘Terrifier 3’. But this one made 18.3 million. It may not seem like much, but the film is released without an American censorship committee rating, which limits distribution in many theatres. Additionally, it cost only $2 million.

The people want blood. Terrifier 3 became Damien Leone’s highest-grossing film in its opening weekend. Even though the previous installment became a global cult film and grossed $15.7 million on a $250,000. budget.

This is excruciating. Many viewers left the theatres after seeing ‘Terrifier 3’, not James Gunn. After the success of the second film, Leone received several offers for this sequel, but the opening scene is so bloody and excessive that no major studio would fund it. This first weekend, spectators in the US and some European countries have left the theatre feeling bad, but such reports should be taken with a grain of salt. On October 31, Spain will receive it for Halloween.

No pre-season passes, big salaries, DC resignation—an avalanche of bad ideas for a semi-announced failure.
After its opening weekend box office failure, details about ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’s turbulent production process are emerging. That story lacks actor-director conflicts and production company interference. Quite the opposite.

Outside DC’s canon. In its day, the first “Joker” was lauded for its roots in the DC publishing house’s cosmogony (character traits, setting in Gotham, Bruce Wayne’s appearance) while refusing to follow the other Batman films’ extravagant villains and gothic airs. At the request of director Todd Phillips, the sequel’s DC universe connection is even weaker, and the future Two-Face’s brief appearance suggests an apocryphal origin.

He’s expelled, not leaving. This rejection of the DC universe has caused public tensions between Phillips and James Gunn, the label’s film relaunch architect. Phillips said this was his last DC film, but Gunn said it never was. The credits don’t include the DC Studios logo because of it. Gunn and his partner Peter Safran may have missed the Los Angeles premiere party for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, where Warner CEO David Zaslav proudly attended.

A firm hand is needed. Todd Phillips was free to make a sequel after ‘Joker’ became the highest-grossing ‘R’ film in history until ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ and the first to surpass one billion dollars. That prevented Gunn and Safran, who oversee all DC projects, from interfering. Phillips clearly wants to distance himself from a superheroic cinema with a bad reputation, but would ‘Joker’ have been as popular without the Joker?

Directly emotional. Not that ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ doesn’t belong to the DC universe, but that its way of proclaiming it to the four winds is “betraying” the fan base that praised the first film. Joaquin Phoenix’s final speech in the sequel claims that the Joker doesn’t exist and that he only wants to be Arthur Fleck, which alienates his fiction fans, who leave him to his fate in court. True to life, fans have rejected the film’s message and left the box office.

Absolute power. Phillips was only accountable to the film’s producers Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, Warner’s new film department heads since the summer of 2023, who approved his first project, Variety reported. Phillips wanted to distance himself from DC’s superheroics. Since Zaslav, the CEO, met with Phillips to cut the budget, something was wrong. Shooting in London would have saved 20%, but the director refused to leave LA. The Venice premiere was unclear to Zaslav, but Phillips wanted to follow the first film’s path.

‘Joker 2’ is in such poor shape that it’s not even

This week, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ and ‘Terrifier 3’ are the psychotic clowns competing at the box office.

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