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Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: Folie à Deux, a number <br>
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of fans of the sequel took to social media over the weekend in defense of the sequel to <br>
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Todd Phillips' 2019 motion picture.<br>
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The film, which sees Joaquin Phoenix return to the lead role of The Joker/Arthur Fleck,<br>
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debuted to a paltry $40 million at the domestic box office, good enough for the weekend's top spot, but less than projections, and half that of <br>
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Amid the early returns, a number of fans took up for the movie and its cinematic depth, in breaking away from the cookie cutter nature of sequels to introduce a musical element <br>
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not present in the first film, with Lady Gaga joining the franchise.<br>
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'Joker 2 was amazing,' one user said, adding that it was '100% as divisive as <br>
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people are making it out to be. I love that the film didn't try to be a traditional sequel, and fully committed <br>
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to the storytelling they presented. It never <br>
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Another user said, 'I kinda loved Joker 2. I loved how it was structured as a meta-exploration of the first film's fandom and the musical elements <br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: Folie à Deux, a number of <br>
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fans of the sequel took to social media over <br>
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the weekend in defense of the sequel to Todd Phillips' 2019 motion picture, <br>
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starring Joaquin Phoenix<br>
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One user marveled that Joker 2 is 'getting universal hate despite being more interesting and creative <br>
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than anything marvel has done in years is expected.'<br>
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A user said that 'Joker 2 is genuinely such a clever movie which <br>
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carries the character study format of the first movie into the second in a way which, surprisingly, will floor <br>
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you by the end. I'm astounded reception is this bad because this is SUCH a clever movie'<br>
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Some users said that the bad word-of-mouth the film was suffering from was <br>
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impacting the opinions of moviegoers.<br>
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'The Joker 2 hate is so forced like did we watched the same movie????????' one user said, while another said the hate for <br>
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the film is 'so unjustified.'<br>
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<u><i>One fan predicted that the motion picture <br>
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with stand the test of time with audiences.</i></u><br>
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'I may be one of ten people who genuinely liked the Joker 2.<br>
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Remember me when society circles back to it in 10 years and <br>
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says its a masterpiece,' said the user. 'The world just <br>
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wasn't ready for it yet.'<br>
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Said one user: 'I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. <br>
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If you don't like musicals or 'art house' style films you probably won't like it because it's not <br>
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made for you. The dynamic between Harley and Joker was brilliant and showcased the 'obsession' that is key to that duo.' <br>
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The movie's box office collapse was swift and has many in the industry <br>
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wondering: How did the highly anticipated sequel to an Oscar-winning, billion-dollar film with the same <br>
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creative team go wrong? Just three weeks ago, tracking services pegged the <br>
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movie for a $70 million debut, which would still have <br>
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been down a fair amount from Joker's record-breaking $96.2 million launch in October 2019. <br>
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<u><i>A number of fans took to social media to defend the controversial sequel</i></u><br>
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Amid the early returns, a number of fans took up <br>
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for the movie and its cinematic depth, in breaking away from the cookie cutter nature of sequels <br>
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to introduce a musical element not present in the <br>
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first film, with Lady Gaga joining the franchise <br>
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Reviews were mixed out of the Venice Film Festival, where it premiered in competition like the first movie and even got <br>
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a 12-minute standing ovation.<br>
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But the homecoming glow was short-lived, and the fragile foundation would crumble in the coming <br>
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weeks with its Rotten Tomatoes score dropping from 63 percent at Venice to 33 percent by its first weekend in theaters. Perhaps even more surprising were the audience reviews: Ticket buyers polled on opening night gave the film a deadly D CinemaScore.<br>
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Exit polls from PostTrak weren't any better.<br>
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It got a meager half star out of five possible.<br>
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'That´s a double whammy that´s very difficult to recover from,' <br>
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said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore.<br>
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'The biggest issue of all is the reported budget.<br>
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A $40 or $50 million opening for a less expensive movie would be a solid debut.'<br>
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Joker: Folie à Deux cost at least twice as much as the first film to produce, though reported figures <br>
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vary at exactly how pricey it was to make. Phillips told Variety <br>
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that it was less than the reported $200 million; Others have it <br>
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pegged at $190 million. Warner Bros. released the film in 4,102 locations in North America.<br>
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About 12.5 percent of its domestic total came from 415 IMAX screens.<br>
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Internationally, it's earned $81.1 million from 25,788 screens, bringing its total global earnings estimate to <br>
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$121.1 million. In the next two weeks, Joker 2 will also open in Japan and China.<br>
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Second place went to Universal and DreamWorks Animation's The Wild Robot, <br>
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which added $18.7 million in its second weekend,<br>
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bringing its domestic total to nearly $64 million. Globally, it's made over $100 million. Warner Bros.' <br>
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice took third place in weekend five, Paramount's Transformers One landed in fourth and Universal and Blumhouse's Speak No Evil rounded out the top five.<br>
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The other big new release of the weekend,<br>
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Lionsgate's White Bird, flopped with just $1.5 million from just over 1,000 locations, despite an A+ CinemaScore.<br>
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Overall, the weekend is up from the same frame last year, but Joker's start is an unwelcome twist <br>
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for theater owners hoping to narrow the box office deficit.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think pieces, some who posit <br>
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that it was deliberately alienating fans of the first movie<br>
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Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have said they aspired to make <br>
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something as 'audacious' as the first film. The sequel added Lady Gaga into the fold <br>
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, as a Joker superfan, and delved further into the mind of Arthur Fleck, imprisoned at Arkham and awaiting trial <br>
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for the murders he committed in the first.<br>
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It´s also a musical, with elaborately imagined song and dance numbers <br>
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to old standards. Gaga even released a companion album called ''Harlequin,' alongside the film.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think pieces, <br>
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some who posit that it was deliberately alienating fans of the first movie.<br>
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In cruder terms, it´s been called a 'middle finger.' But fans often ignore the advice of critics, especially when it comes to opening their wallets to see revered comic <br>
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book characters on the big screen.<br>
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'They took a swing for the fences,' Dergarabedian said.<br>
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'But except for a couple of outliers, audiences in 2024 seem to want <br>
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to know what they´re getting when they´re going to the theater.<br>
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They want the tried and true, the familiar.' <br>
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Deadline editor Anthony D´Alessandro thinks <br>
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the problem started with the idea to make the Joker sequel a musical.<br>
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'No fan of the original movie wanted to see a musical sequel,' he wrote on Saturday.<br>
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The first film was also divisive and the subject of much discourse, then about whether <br>
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it might send the wrong message to the wrong type of person. And yet people still <br>
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flocked to see what the fuss was about. Joker went on to pick up 11 Oscar nominations, including <br>
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best picture and best director, and three wins.<br>
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It also made over $1 billion and was the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, until this summer when Marvel's Deadpool <br>
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S.<br>
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and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic <br>
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figures will be released Monday. <br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box