Joker: Folie a Deux is on its method 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 likely one of the yr’s most anticipated movies, however horrible opinions and very poor phrase of mouth from followers are killing this musical sequel’s field workplace. Deadline stories that the opening weekend field workplace outlook for the movie is within the $47 million-ish vary, a lethal outcome 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? Easy – followers REALLY don’t like director Todd Phillips’s sequel, and phrase of mouth is tanking the film in a giant means. The CinemaScore score for this movie is especially dire, with it being the primary ever comedian e book film to earn a D score. That’s a horrifically low score, with even Francis Ford Coppola’s largely disliked bomb, Megalopolis, incomes a D Plus.
One positively has to marvel what possessed WB to green-light a musical sequel to Joker. I suppose the thought of pairing Woman Gaga with Joaquin Phoenix proved too engaging a prospect to show down, however it may’t be denied that the thought has backfired. That stated, 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 Coronary heart in 1982. Musical flops appear to be a proper of passage for big-time administrators, don’t they?
In the meantime, The Wild Robotic will probably 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 appears to be like like Lionsgate had one other bomb on their fingers, with White Hen (a prequel to Surprise) opening outdoors the highest 5 with about $1.5-2 million.
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