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Joker has a legitimate shot at pulling in over $1 billion in ticket sales. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Todd Phillips-directed film ended Saturday with close to $934 million in global ticket sales. Of this total, $299.6 million was generated domestically while $634.4 million came from foreign markets. Box office analysts now believe that the Joker has a shot at passing […]
Four weekends after it was first released in the U.S., and Joker is back in the top spot at the domestic box office, after fending off it’s closest challenger (and previous brief No. 1) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. According to Variety, the two headlining movie villains had a close race to claim No. 1, but estimates […]
Before the release of Joker earlier this month, the stairs located in the Bronx that connected Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues on West 167th Street were just another flight of steps. Now, they have become known as the “Joker Stairs” since it’s where—spoiler alert—Arthur Fleck fully embodies the role of the Joker, as interpreted by Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips, for the first […]
Joker hauled in another $77.9 million at the global box office this weekend, bringing its total numbers to $737.5 million. “In terms of budget versus global grosses, Joker is more profitable than any ‘big’ comic book movie aside from Deadpool, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Mask,” Scott Mendelson wrote in Forbes. The film now tops other […]
Joker has been lighting up the box office, but if Jared Leto had his way, it would have never even existed. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Leto was frustrated when Warner Bros. greenlit Todd Phillips’ take on the Batman villain because the studio reportedly promised him he could continue his take on the character that he debuted in Suicide […]
After spending 20 years in development hell, and being backed with an estimated $140 million budget that was utilized in part to make its star look like he was back in his Fresh Prince days, Gemini Man had a rough box office performance during its opening weekend, which will almost certainly doom any prospect of […]
Joker continues to laugh all the way to the bank in its second weekend at the box office. Deadline reports that the Joaquin Phoenix-led film is now expected to earn $58.7 million, soaring past initial projections of around $40 million. If these new figures hold true, Joker will surpass the $43.1 million netted by Gravity in 2013 to assume the new box office record for […]
Jared Leto, who portrayed the DC villain Joker in Suicide Squad, was reportedly “alienated and upset” after Todd Phillips’ Joker was greenlit, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film of course cast Joaquin Phoenix for the role and went on to garner an impressive $96 million at the domestic box office during its opening weekend. The tidbit about […]
As both a working comic, a regular interviewer of the biggest names in stand-up, and an actor in Joker, Marc Maron is uniquely poised to talk about director Todd Phillips‘ assertion that “woke culture” is killing comedy. Maron pushed back on the idea floated by Phillips in a recent profile in Vanity Fair, noting that […]
Moviegoers who ventured to see Joker at an Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles were given a good surprise over the weekend, when Joaquin Phoenix showed up in person to greet them. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Phoenix made an appearance before and after select Joker screenings that took place in L.A. theaters on Saturday night, and took pictures and […]
