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Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: <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 <br>
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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 nature <br>
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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 <br>
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it was '100% as divisive as people are making it out to be.<br>
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I love that the film didn't 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 pleasing aspects.'<br>
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Another user said, 'I kinda loved Joker 2. I loved how it was structured as a <br>
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meta-exploration of the first film's fandom 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 Deux, a number of fans of the sequel took to social media over the <br>
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weekend in defense of the sequel to Todd Phillips' 2019 <br>
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motion picture, starring Joaquin Phoenix<br>
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One user marveled that Joker 2 is 'getting universal <br>
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hate despite being more interesting and creative than anything marvel has done <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 <br>
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way which, surprisingly, will floor you by the end.<br>
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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 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 <br>
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One fan predicted that the motion picture with stand the test <br>
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of time with audiences.<br>
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'I may be one of ten people who genuinely liked <br>
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the Joker 2. Remember me when society circles back <br>
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to it in 10 years and says its a masterpiece,' said the user.<br>
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'The 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 it's not made for you.<br>
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The dynamic between Harley and Joker was brilliant and showcased the 'obsession' that is key to that <br>
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duo.' <br>
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The movie's box office collapse was swift and has many in the industry 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 <br>
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services pegged the movie for a $70 million debut, which would still have been down a fair <br>
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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 the cookie <br>
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cutter nature of sequels to introduce a musical element not present in the first film, with Lady Gaga joining the franchise <br>
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Reviews were mixed out of the Venice Film Festival,<br>
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where it premiered in competition like the first movie <br>
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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 <br>
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crumble in the coming weeks with its Rotten Tomatoes score dropping from 63 <br>
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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 <br>
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the film a deadly D CinemaScore. 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 <br>
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a solid debut.'<br>
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Joker: Folie à Deux cost at least twice as much as the <br>
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first film to produce, though reported figures vary at exactly how pricey it was to make.<br>
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Phillips told Variety that it was less than the reported $200 million; Others have it pegged <br>
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at $190 million. Warner Bros. released the film in 4,102 <br>
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locations in North America. 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 <br>
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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 <br>
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$18.7 million in its second weekend, bringing its <br>
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domestic total to nearly $64 million. Globally, it's <br>
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made over $100 million. Warner Bros.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice took third place in weekend five, Paramount's Transformers One <br>
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landed in fourth and Universal and Blumhouse's Speak No <br>
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Evil rounded out the top five.<br>
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The other big new release of the weekend, Lionsgate's White Bird, <br>
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flopped with just $1.5 million from just over 1,000 locations, despite <br>
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Overall, the weekend is up from the same frame last year, but Joker's start is an unwelcome twist for theater owners hoping to narrow <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 <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.<br>
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The sequel added Lady Gaga into the fold , as a Joker superfan, and delved further into the <br>
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mind of Arthur Fleck, imprisoned at Arkham and awaiting trial for <br>
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the murders he committed in the first. 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,' alongside the film.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think pieces, some who <br>
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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, <br>
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especially when it comes to opening their wallets <br>
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to 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 seem <br>
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to want to know what they´re getting when they´re going to <br>
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the theater. They want the tried and true, the familiar.' <br>
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Deadline editor Anthony D´Alessandro thinks the problem started with <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 it might send <br>
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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 <br>
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on to pick up 11 Oscar nominations, including 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,<br>
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until this summer when Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine took the crown.<br>
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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore.<br>
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Final domestic figures will be released Monday. <br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box