‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Lower In Opening With $37M+ After ‘D’ CinemaScore – Box Office
deadline.comThe opening for Warner Bros‘ Joker: Folie a Deux was even lower at $37.8M this weekend versus the $40M that the studio reported yesterday morning.
Sunday came in at $6.2M, -45% off Saturday’s $11.3M. The movie cost $190M+ before P&A. Overseas was better as we told you yesterday with a $81.1M take, however, just like domestic, prospects aren’t bright.
More on what went wrong with this film under the David Zaslav led Warner Bros. Discovery conglom here. As we told you, the studio gave filmmaker Todd Phillips to make the movie he wanted, but at a much higher greenlight price of $190M+, a that’s 171% above the original 2019 movie’s $70M, which had two co-financiers, Village Roadshow and the then Bron.
Joker 2 only had one co-fi partner, Domain at 25%. As one wide industry colleague pointed out to me last night, whenever low CinemaScores register like this it’s because the audience was sold a bill of goods that wasn’t delivered upon by the studio.
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