Amid tepid returns at the box office for Joker: Folie à Deux, a number of fans of the <br>
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sequel took to social media over the weekend in defense of <br>
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the sequel to 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,<br>
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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 <br>
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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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'Joker 2 was amazing,' one user said, adding that it was '100% as divisive as people are making it <br>
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out to be. I love that the film didn't try to be a traditional <br>
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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 <br>
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crowd pleasing aspects.'<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 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 <br>
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of the sequel took to social media over the weekend in defense <br>
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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 <br>
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despite being more interesting and creative than anything marvel <br>
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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 <br>
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study format of the first movie into the second in a 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 <br>
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clever movie'<br>
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Some users said that the bad word-of-mouth the film was suffering from was impacting <br>
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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 <br>
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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 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 <br>
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made for you. The dynamic between Harley and <br>
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Joker was brilliant and showcased the 'obsession' that <br>
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is key to that duo.' <br>
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The movie's box office collapse was swift and has <br>
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many in the industry wondering: How did the highly anticipated sequel <br>
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to an Oscar-winning, billion-dollar film with the same creative team go wrong?<br>
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Just three weeks ago, tracking services pegged the movie for a $70 million debut, which would still <br>
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have been down a fair amount from Joker's record-breaking $96.2 million launch in October 2019. <br>
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<u><b>A number of fans took to social media to defend the controversial sequel</b></u><br>
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Amid the early returns, a number of fans took <br>
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up for the movie and its cinematic depth, in breaking away <br>
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from the cookie cutter nature of sequels to introduce a musical element not present <br>
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in the first film, with Lady Gaga joining the franchise <br>
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Reviews were mixed out of the Venice Film Festival, where <br>
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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 <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 <br>
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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,' said Paul Dergarabedian, the <br>
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senior media analyst for Comscore. 'The biggest issue <br>
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of all is the reported budget. A $40 or $50 million opening for a less expensive movie <br>
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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 <br>
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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 at $190 <br>
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million. Warner Bros. released the film in 4,102 locations in North <br>
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America. About 12.5 percent of its domestic total came <br>
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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 <br>
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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 <br>
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Robot, which added $18.7 million in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total <br>
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to nearly $64 million. Globally, it's made over $100 million. Warner Bros.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice took third place in weekend five, Paramount's Transformers One landed in fourth and Universal <br>
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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 <br>
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Bird, flopped with just $1.5 million from just over 1,<br>
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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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narrow the box office deficit.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think <br>
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pieces, some who posit that it was deliberately alienating fans of the first movie<br>
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Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have said they aspired <br>
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to 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, <br>
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and delved further into the mind of Arthur Fleck, 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 <br>
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dance numbers to old standards. Gaga even released a companion album <br>
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called ''Harlequin,' alongside the film.<br>
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The sequel has already been the subject of many think pieces, some who posit that it was deliberately <br>
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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 <br>
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advice of critics, 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 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 the problem started with the idea to make the Joker sequel a <br>
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musical. '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 <br>
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discourse, then about whether it might send the wrong message to the wrong type of <br>
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person. And yet people still flocked to see what the fuss <br>
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was about. Joker went on to pick up 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture and <br>
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best director, and three wins. It also made over $1 billion and was the <br>
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highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, until this summer when Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine took the <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