Things have gone from bad to worse for Joker: Folie a Deux, as Warner Bros. appears to have already covered its virtual cut.
When the first Joker came out way back in 2019, it surprised many by earning $1 billion and change at the box office. What wasn’t a miracle was that Warner Bros. decided to greenlight a sequel, a sequel that was likely to rise, that cost $200 million to build and $100 million to market and distribute. And how did your first weekend go? So bad that it was even lower than Morbius, of all movies.
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The film just had its second weekend, where it grossed $7 million regionally, an immense 81% release from its opening weekend, the worst second weekend decline for any comic book movie. It’s incredibly difficult and Warner Bros. will end up losing between $100 and $200 million. You can’t delete taxes anyway, right?
What Warner Bros. can do, however, is edit it digitally, which Variety says is exactly what it needs to do. The gap says that Joker: Folie a Deux is now due for a virtual home entertainment release on October 29, two weeks after it was written, and just over a lifetime after it hit theaters.
According to field analysts on the use of Selection, it is conceived that director Todd Phillips’ decision to incorporate music and dance numbers in the sequel could have alienated DC fans, especially in the darker first entry. “The first Joker was a fresh and timely counterpoint to the dominant superhero narrative and tone, and it worked,” said analyst David A. Improper of film consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Analysis. “The filmmakers deserve credit for making less conventional creative choices in Folie, adding the romantic angle with Lady Gaga. But this time nothing worked.”
I guess now we just have to wait and see if Matt Reeves does something more with his crush on the Joker, or if James Gunn is planning something else with the DCU’s new version of Batman.
