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Originally Posted by KTrain
Joker 2 is bombing.
$40 million domestic opening weekend. Lower than Flash and The Marvels. Less than 1/2 of the first movie.
$81 million internationally so it's not all bad news. It probably won't make a quarter of what the first one did.
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It seems like the director actively tried to push away his audience. The first one had an audience who showed up for the nihilistic angry vibes.....so let's make a musical....co-starring Lady Gaga....?
I can kind of see why he went that way, to further explore the idea of the delusional television appearances. This seems like a vanity piece, and someone should have just stopped Todd Phillips. He could have kept the same general idea and just toned down the musical elements. You've got a movie that fans of musicals aren't going to like and a musical that fans of the first Joker movie aren't going to like.