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Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: Folie à Deux, a number of fans of the sequel took <br>
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The film, which sees Joaquin Phoenix return to the lead role of The Joker/Arthur Fleck, debuted to a paltry $40 million at the domestic box office, good <br>
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enough for the weekend's top spot, but less than projections, and half that of its predecessor.<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 <br>
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nature of sequels to introduce a musical element not present in the first film, <br>
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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 <br>
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try to be a traditional sequel, and fully committed to the storytelling they presented.<br>
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It never deviated to be a film full of Easter eggs or any other crowd <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 <br>
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and the musical elements were a lot of fun.'<br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: Folie à <br>
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Deux, a number of fans of the sequel took to social media over 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 <br>
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and creative 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 carries the character study <br>
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format of the first movie into the second in a way which, surprisingly, <br>
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will floor 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 <br>
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suffering from was 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 <br>
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said, while another said the hate for the film is 'so unjustified.'<br>
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One fan predicted that the motion picture with stand the test of time with audiences.<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 <br>
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years and says its a masterpiece,' said the user. 'The <br>
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world just wasn't ready for it yet.'<br>
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Said one user: 'I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. If you don't like musicals or 'art house' style films you probably won't like it because <br>
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it's not made for you. The dynamic between Harley and Joker was brilliant and showcased the 'obsession' that is key <br>
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to that duo.' <br>
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The movie's box office collapse was swift and has many in the industry wondering: How did <br>
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the highly anticipated sequel to an Oscar-winning, billion-dollar <br>
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film with the same creative team go wrong? Just <br>
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three weeks ago, tracking services pegged the movie for a $70 million debut, which <br>
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would still have been down a fair amount from Joker's record-breaking $96.2 million launch in October 2019. <br>
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A number of fans took to social media to defend the controversial sequel<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 <br>
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the cookie cutter nature of sequels to introduce a musical element not present in the first film, with Lady <br>
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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 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 weeks with its <br>
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Rotten Tomatoes score dropping from 63 percent <br>
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at Venice to 33 percent by its first weekend in theaters. Perhaps even more surprising were the audience reviews:<br>
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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. It got a meager half star out of five possible.<br>
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'That´s a double whammy that´s very difficult <br>
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to recover from,' said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore.<br>
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'The biggest issue of all is the reported budget. A $40 or <br>
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$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 vary at exactly <br>
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how pricey it was to make. Phillips told Variety that it <br>
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was less than the reported $200 million; Others have it pegged at $190 million. <br>
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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 $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, which added $18.7 million in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to nearly $64 million. Globally, it's made over $100 million. <br>
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Warner Bros.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice took third place <br>
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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, Lionsgate's White Bird, flopped with just <br>
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$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 <br>
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start is an unwelcome twist 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 that it was deliberately alienating fans of the <br>
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first movie<br>
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Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have said they aspired to <br>
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make something as 'audacious' as the first film. The sequel added Lady Gaga into the <br>
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fold , as a Joker superfan, and delved further into the mind of Arthur Fleck, <br>
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imprisoned at Arkham and awaiting trial 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 to old standards.<br>
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Gaga even released a companion album called ''Harlequin,' <br>
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alongside the film.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think pieces, some who posit that it <br>
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was deliberately alienating fans of the first movie. In cruder terms,<br>
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it´s been called a 'middle finger.' But fans often ignore the advice of critics,<br>
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especially when it comes to opening their wallets to <br>
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see revered comic 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 <br>
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seem to want 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 the problem started <br>
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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 <br>
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whether it might send the wrong message to <br>
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the wrong type of person. And yet people still flocked to <br>
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see what the fuss was about. Joker went on to pick up 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture and best <br>
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director, and three wins. It also made over $1 <br>
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billion and was the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, until this <br>
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summer when Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine took the crown.<br>
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at <br>
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will be released Monday. <br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box