'Joker' Sequel Update - Working Title Revealed

Actor Dan Benson now has an OnlyFans.Benson, 34,  is best known for his roles as Zeke on Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place and voicing Ethan on Rick and Morty.As his bio says, “Now I’m all grown up.”On his OnlyFans Benson writes, “If you wanted to see me naked – your wish has been granted.”Benson thanks Gay for gaining him the newfound attention and promises to use it for good. In a tweet he wrote, “I’ll be using this newfound resurgence to fight for and support the LGBTQ+ communities that deserve so much better from this country. Drop a link to your favorite organizations below.”I’ll be using this new found resurgence to fight for and support the LGBTQ communities that deserve so much better from this country.

LOUISE Thompson revealed she fears she has brain damage after a recent hospital dash. The Made In Chelsea star nearly died twice from serious complications while giving birth to her first child Leo last year.

LOVE Island's latest Casa Amor bombshell Summer Botwe went TOPLESS last night- ditching her bikini for a steamy shower. The ITV2 dating show contestant put on a raunchy display for the boys as she washed in the outdoor shower without a bikini top.

A CONTESTANT on The Chase left Bradley Walsh blushing with a VERY cheeky comment about her job at a sex clinic. Tuesdays show saw Bradley meet Donru, 34, who revealed she was a doctor from Liverpool.

FURIOUS Love Island fans have slammed one Casa Amor Islander for "using" their partner to get into the main villa. Dozens of viewers flooded social media to complain that Coco Lodge was playing a game with Andrew Le Page to continue on the show.

A CASA Amor bombshell's family have taken a swipe at Love Island for cutting them out of the show. The Islanders have been split in two thanks to the return of the notorious Casa Amor, and a string of sexy singletons stormed the show to test the loyalties of the current Love Island couples.

Denise Richards sported a classic red, white and blue bikini to celebrate Independence Day by the ocean in Malibu in a stunning photo to promote the launch of her own OnlyFans account. The 51-year-old actress caught the last glimpse of the sunset as she posed by the shoreline wearing a sparkling top with a pair of striped bottoms in a snap simply captioned "Happy 4th," with a prompt to direct her one million followers to her new online sharing site.

The Featured Artists Coalition’s petition calling on UK collecting society PRS to reconsider its decision to cut the funding it provides the PRS Foundation has now past a 1000 signatures, with artists like Sam Fender, Anna Calvi and Wolf Alice’s Joff Oddie backing the FAC’s campaign.PRS confirmed at its AGM in May that the funding it provides to the talent development charity it set up in 2000 will be cut from the current £2.5 million a year to £1 million a year from 2024. That’s because the specific income stream the funding comes from – basically interest earned on investments and royalties awaiting distribution – has been in decline in recent years.However, many artist and songwriter groups have called on the society to top up its annual donation to the Foundation from other funds.

James Gunn and Suda51 have taken to Twitter to confirm they’re not involved in the recently announced Lollipop Chainsaw remake.Yesterday (July 5) it was confirmed that the game’s original producer Yoshimi Yasuda will be working on the remake through his Dragami Games studio alongside “a combination of development staff from the original version”.However, it’s since been revealed that neither creative director Suda51 nor co-writer James Gunn will have any involvement in the new project.Taking to Twitter, Gunn said he only heard about the project “a couple of weeks ago” from Suda.“I neither endorse nor condemn it,” he added. “I simply don’t know anything about it.

Ricky Martin has denied the recent allegations that led to him being issued with a restraining order.According to Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero, the Latin singer dated the petitioner for seven months before the pair separated two months ago. However, it’s said that Martin did not “accept” the break-up, and had repeatedly attempted to make contact with his former partner.Martin is accused of calling the petitioner frequently, and of being seen loitering outside of his residence on at least three occasions, leading the petitioner to fear for his safety.

R. Kelly was removed from suicide watch by the Metropolitan Detention Center of Brooklyn yesterday (July 5), just days after he sued the facility.The singer has been in custody at the facility following his recent 30-year sentence for the federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges he was convicted of last year.Kelly’s lawyers filed a lawsuit and temporary restraining order against the Brooklyn facility and its warden, Heriberto Tellez, alleging it has a “policy of punishing high profile inmates by placing them under the harsh conditions of suicide watch even though they are not suicidal.”The suit claimed that Kelly was being made to wear a paper smock and wasn’t allowed utensils to eat his meals, and that he was seeking “compensatory damages for all emotional distress, humiliation, pain and suffering, and other harm in an amount to be determined at trial.”According to a new court filing, Tellez has authorised the suicide watch to be lifted following a clinical assessment.

Three Michael Jackson songs that appeared on his 2010 posthumous album ‘Michael’ have been removed from streaming services, amid continued claims that they were actually sung by an impersonator.Although, it’s important to note, their removal has “nothing to do with their authenticity”. It’s just that the singer’s fans have become so focussed on the fake vocal claims linked to these tracks that they’ve all – all of them – forgotten that he ever made any other music. Or something like that.“The removal of these three songs has nothing to do with their authenticity”, says a spokesperson.

Gallops have returned with ‘Boolean Who?’, the first in a series of singles that see the trio move further into electronic music and experimenting with machine learning in its creation.“These tracks are also about stripping back our sound and creating something that feels more direct and visceral”, says the band’s Mark Huckridge. “We’ve always been interested in club culture and this is us letting that shine through, working less with melody and focusing more on rhythmic elements and how they interact with each other, as well as not being afraid to let things repeat”.‘Boolean Who?’ – and the other upcoming singles – see Gallops working with machine-learning research project Magenta, which introduces randomisation and chance to their music-making, as well as the use of experimental studio techniques influenced by the likes of dub innovator King Tubby.“Whereas I’d always been most comfortable with composing with guitars, I found that this sense of comfort – of muscle memory – had been working against me”, Huckridge continues.

DEALSDeath metal band Defleshed have signed to Metal Blade to release their first album since 2005.Music licensing platform Lickd – previously mainly focused on helping YouTube creators license music – has partnered with decentralised metaverse Decentraland’s entertainment and commercial district Vegas City. “This is a huge step for Lickd both in terms of expanding our offering into the metaverse and for the metaverse itself in terms of being able to simplify the music licensing solution”, says Lickd CEO Paul Sampson.

Joaquin Phoenix's Joker finally met his match? ET learned on Tuesday that Lady Gaga is in very early talks to play Harley Quinn and star opposite Phoenix in the upcoming sequel to director Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning 2019 thriller, .However, there is no official offer on the table for Gaga yet, and Phoenix's deal is still being finalized as well.The news comes just a week after Phillips revealed that he had completed the script for the sequel, sharing its tentative title, A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips) Gaga's portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime's notorious first lady would be the third current imagining of the role. Margot Robbie plays Harley on the and side of the DC Comics Extended Universe, while Kaley Cuoco voices the legendary baddie in HBO Max's animated series, The first  -- which was originally imagined as a standalone drama set in the  universe but outside the canon of the comics or previous film adaptations — was set in the early '80s, and followed the mentally unstable failed clown Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) as he spiraled into madness and sparked a violent riot in the city of Gotham.Not much is known about the plot of Phillips' forthcoming follow-up, outside of the title — though Gaga's potential casting may lend a hint.

Lady Gaga is ready to play a new iconic role! The singer and actress is in early talks to join the cast of the upcoming film ‘Joker: Folie à deux’ directed by Todd Phillips, which is now turning into a musical. Phillips recently unveiled the title for the sequel, posting an image of the script next to a photo of Joaquin Phoenix reading what will be the new storyline for the highly anticipated film.It has been revealed that Gaga would play Harley Quinn, previously played by Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021) and by Kaley Cuoco in HBO’s animated version.Not much has been revealed about the sequel, however fans are already speculating about the rest of the characters from the DC universe that will be unveiled, as it is expected to see a new portayal of Batman on the big screen.The title for the sequel means “shared madness” in French, a phrase used to describe a shared delusion among a group of people, which raised the question of who will he be sharing the madness with.

social media. Even though Phillips shared a photo of Phoenix, 47, reading the script, he has not yet signed a deal for the sequel.Details of the plot are not yet known, but Deadline reports that the “Bad Romance” singer will play Harley Quinn, the Joker’s psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who falls in love with him and becomes his sidekick. It’s believed that Gaga’s Harley Quinn will exist in a different DC universe from Margot Robbie’s in the “Suicide Squad” movies.The sequel is set to have many differences from the first film, including that it will be a musical, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“Joker,” released in 2019, had a record-breaking opening weekend and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.

Joker director Todd Phillips confirmed that a sequel to the 2019 film is underway earlier this month, it’s been revealed that Lady Gaga is in talks to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Harley Quinn.Last week, Phillips announced Joker: Folie à Deux by sharing the cover of its script, written by him and his Joker co-writer Scott Silver. He also included a photo of Phoenix reading the script, suggesting the actor’s return to the titular role after delivering an Oscar-winning performance in the original.Now, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that, according to sources, the upcoming sequel is a musical.

Lady Gaga is looking to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in a musical sequel to his 2019 smash hit, “Joker.”

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterA new DC star is born.Lady Gaga is in early negotiations to join “Joker: Folie à Deux” as Joker’s partner-in-madness, Harley Quinn, for what would be a musical sequel to director Todd Phillips’ 2019 blockbuster.Speculation that Harley Quinn would appear in the movie first bubbled to the surface after Phillips posted the cover of the screenplay to Instagram on June 7.

Of all the wild rumors in the world that turned out to be true, this one seemed like the most far-fetched. But hey, some crazy internet rumors turn out to be true.

Lady Gaga is in talks to join the cast of the Joker sequel, which is reportedly going to be a musical.

Oscar winner Lady Gaga (House of Gucci) is in early talks to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Warner Bros.’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Deadline can confirm.

This has been building since before Toby Emmerich exited and Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy took the reins at Warner Bros. Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t quite signed a deal to reprise his role as the disturbed murderous anarchist Arthur Fleck in a sequel to the billion dollar grossing "Joker," but the film is a go.  Director Todd Phillips revealed on Instagram that there’s a "Joker" sequel script he just wrote with Scott Silver and that Phoenix, who won an Oscar for playing the title role, is reading it.That isn’t quite true; Phoenix read it awhile ago, and it has come down to making a rich deal for him to star in the genre-jumping sequel.

Joker director Todd Phillips has confirmed a sequel is officially underway.In a post on Instagram on Tuesday (June 7), the director shared the cover of the script written by Phillips and collaborator Scott Silver, along with a photo of Joaquin Phoenix reading the screenplay.As revealed by the script, the sequel is titled Joker: Folie à Deux, which translates to “shared madness” or a shared delusional disorder. While it’s unclear how this applies to the film’s plot, some have speculated the sequel could introduce Joker’s troubled love interest Harley Quinn.Released in 2019, Joker provided an origin story for the DC villain through the lens of a psychological thriller.

posting a series of images to Instagram, including a red script cover with the title “Joker: Folie à Deux,” as well as a shot of Oscar-winning franchise star Joaquin Phoenix smoking while reading the screenplay. The script cover lists the writers as Phillips and Scott Silver, who both penned the first installment.The official Warner Bros.

Todd Phillips has written the next chapter in the Clown Prince of Crime's gritty, brutal tale of chaos and discord.Phillips took to Instagram on Tuesday to confirm that his Oscar-winning 2019 film is getting a sequel, penned by himself and Scott Silver — who also co-wrote the first film.Phillips shared a pair of snapshots, beginning with a pic of the script's cover page, revealing the sequel is tentatively titled A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips)The second snapshot in the slideshow was an artistic black-and-white candid pic of star Joaquin Phoenix -- who earned his Oscar for playing the title character — reading the script over while smoking a cigarette.The first — which was originally imagined as a standalone drama set in the universe but outside the cannon of the comics or the film adaptations — was set in the early '80s, and followed the mentally unstable failed clown Arthur Fleck as he spiraled into madness and sparked a violent riot in the city of Gotham.Not much is known about the plot of Phillips' forthcoming follow-up, outside of the title. Folie à Deux is a term that means a shared delusion or nearly identical mental disorder that presents in two different people.Whether the title refers to Joker's famously disturbed relationship with Batman or possibly his notoriously unhealthy relationship with love interest Harley Quinn remains to be seen.

The Joker will be making a comeback.

Send in the clown again. Well, the rumors are true, and it seems director Todd Phillips is getting ahead of them and trying to announce things on his own terms.

This has been building since before Toby Emmerich exited and Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy took the reins at Warner Bros. Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t quite signed a deal to reprise his role as the disturbed murderous anarchist Arthur Fleck in a sequel to the billion dollar grossing Joker,. but the film is a go. Director Todd Phillips revealed on Instagram that there’s a Joker sequel script he just wrote with Scott Silver and that Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for playing the title role, is reading it. That isn’t quite true; Phoenix read it awhile ago, and it has come down to making a rich deal for him to star in the genre-jumping sequel.

Adam B.