Box Office: The Joke is on Warner Bros.

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Box Office: 'Joker 2' Stumbles With Lackluster $40 Million Debut https://t.co/OhqIWMG0Mk
- Variety (@Variety) October 6, 2024

Joker: Folie à Deux is out there with 39m$ OR 40m$. Either way, a far cry critically and commercially than the first one which opened with 96m$ this same weekend 5 years ago. It failed to meet expectations, which were

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Cinematic saviors.

International numbers for JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX were much better than domestic--$81.1M in 76 markets on 25,788 screens.

TOP 5 MARKETS

UK ($8M)
GER ($7M)
ITA ($5.6M)
MEX ($5.5M)
FRA ($5M)

Japan opens Oct 11, China Oct 16.
- Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) October 6, 2024

[babarsuhail]

Everyone RSVPed NO except Europe.

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MEX ($5.5M)

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[lovelylaura23]

I watched JoJo Rabbit last night and it brought the feels. I openly cackled at Sam Rockwell tho. I didn't know he was so funny.

[anterrabre]

I loved Jojo Rabbit and screamed at this scene.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Have you never seen Galaxy Quest?!

[cstoffer]

I love Alan rickman in this, his character speaks to me on a higher level.

via GIPHY

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Peter Safran talking Batgirl:
“On the Batgirl front, it’s not about late in the process of the film getting canceled. I saw the movie, and there are a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera on that film. But that film was not releasable, and it happens sometimes. That film was not releasable. I actually think that [president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David] Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC. It would have hurt those people involved.” (Budget: 90million)

Joker 2:
Budget: $150-$200million
Opening: $40million
CinemaScore: D
RT score: 33%

The Flash:
Budget: $200-$220million
Box Office: $271million
CinemaScore: B
RT Score: 63%

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To be kind of fair, they now have a totally new DC Universe that starts next year, and Joker doesn't even seem to be part of the old one (the last DCEU movie I watched was like THE Suicide Squad so I may be out of the loop).

On the other hand, the ordinary moviegoer won't know so ha @ these damaging the brand.

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The thing is - Batgirl would've been part of the old DCEU that just wrapped up with Aquaman and it would've been out last year if not earlier. So it couldn't hurt the DC brand anymore than any of their flops have.

Even Aquaman 2 flopped

[queenursula]

It was part of the planned new universe with Keaton as Batman.

[mspopstar]

I don't know but it makes me happy. I need the incels to suffer I guess

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The incels didn't see it either lmao