Box Office Update: Is Joker 2 bombing?

Joker: Folie a Deux is on its option to a disasterous opening weekend, with it incomes the bottom ever CinemaScore for a comic book e-book film.

The numbers are coming in for Joker: Folie a Deux and aren’t fairly. It is among the yr’s most anticipated movies, however horrible opinions and intensely poor phrase of mouth from followers are killing this musical sequel’s field workplace. Deadline studies that the opening weekend field workplace outlook for the movie is within the $47 million-ish vary, a lethal consequence for a $200 million budgeted would-be tentpole film. That’s even lower than the cautious $60 million we predicted earlier this week.

So how did we get right here? Simple – followers REALLY don’t like director Todd Phillips’s sequel, and phrase of mouth is tanking the film in a giant manner. The CinemaScore ranking for this movie is especially dire, with it being the primary ever comedian e-book film to earn a D ranking. That’s a horrifically low ranking, with even Francis Ford Coppola’s largely disliked bomb, Megalopolis, incomes a D Plus. 

One undoubtedly has to surprise what possessed WB to green-light a musical sequel to Joker. I suppose the concept of pairing Lady Gaga with Joaquin Phoenix proved too attractive a prospect to show down, however it may possibly’t be denied that the concept has backfired. That mentioned, Phillips is in good firm right here, with Martin Scorsese having his personal musical flop with New York, New York again in 1977, and Coppola having One from the Heart in 1982. Musical flops appear to be a proper of passage for big-time administrators, don’t they?

Meanwhile, The Wild Robot will doubtless end second this weekend with about $20 million. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, regardless of popping out on digital this Tuesday, had one other robust weekend, with it on observe for about $11.4 million and a third-place end. It additionally seems like Lionsgate had one other bomb on their fingers, with White Bird (a prequel to Wonder) opening exterior the highest 5 with about $1.5-2 million. 

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