Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker:<br>
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Folie à Deux, a number of fans of the sequel took to social media over the weekend in defense of <br>
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The film, which sees Joaquin Phoenix return to the lead role of The <br>
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Joker/Arthur Fleck, debuted to a paltry $40 million at the <br>
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domestic box office, good 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 nature of sequels to introduce a musical <br>
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element not present in the first film, with Lady Gaga <br>
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'Joker 2 was amazing,' one user said, adding that it was '100% <br>
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as divisive as people are making it out to be. I love that the film didn't try to be a <br>
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traditional sequel, and fully committed <br>
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to the storytelling they presented. It never deviated to be a film full <br>
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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 <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 <br>
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the weekend in defense of the sequel to Todd Phillips' 2019 motion picture, starring Joaquin Phoenix<br>
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One user marveled that Joker 2 is 'getting universal hate <br>
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despite being more interesting and creative than anything marvel has <br>
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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 format of the first movie into the <br>
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second in a way which, surprisingly, will floor you by <br>
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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 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 <br>
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user said, while another said the hate for the film is <br>
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'so unjustified.'<br>
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<b>One fan predicted that the motion picture with stand the test of time with audiences.</b><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 says its a masterpiece,' said <br>
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the user. 'The world just wasn't ready for it yet.'<br>
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Said one user: 'I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. If you <br>
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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 <br>
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'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 wondering:<br>
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How did the highly anticipated sequel to an Oscar-winning,<br>
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billion-dollar film with the same creative team go wrong?<br>
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Just three weeks ago, tracking services pegged the movie <br>
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for a $70 million debut, which would still have been down a fair amount from Joker's record-breaking $96.2 <br>
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million launch in October 2019. <br>
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<strong>A number of fans took to social media to defend the controversial sequel</strong><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 <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 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 Rotten Tomatoes score dropping <br>
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from 63 percent at Venice to 33 percent by its first weekend in theaters. Perhaps <br>
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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. 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. 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 <br>
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first film to produce, though reported figures vary at exactly how pricey it was to <br>
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make. Phillips told Variety that it was less than the <br>
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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 <br>
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its total global earnings estimate to $121.1 million. In the next two <br>
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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 <br>
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million in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to nearly $64 million. <br>
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Globally, it's made over $100 million. Warner Bros.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice <br>
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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, Lionsgate's White Bird, flopped with just $1.5 million from just over <br>
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1,000 locations, despite an A+ CinemaScore.<br>
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Overall, the weekend is up from the same frame last <br>
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year, but Joker's start is an unwelcome twist for theater owners hoping to <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 something <br>
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as 'audacious' as the first film. The sequel added Lady Gaga into the fold , as a Joker superfan, and delved further into the mind of Arthur Fleck, imprisoned at Arkham and <br>
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awaiting trial for the murders he committed in the <br>
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first. It´s also a musical, with elaborately imagined <br>
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song and dance numbers 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, some who posit <br>
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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 <br>
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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 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 it might send <br>
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the wrong message to the wrong type of person. And yet people <br>
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still flocked to see what the fuss was about. Joker went on to pick up 11 Oscar nominations,<br>
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including best picture and best director, <br>
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and three wins. It also made over $1 billion and was the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, until this summer when Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine <br>
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at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. <br>
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Amid tepid returns at the box