‘Joker 2’ Suffers Worst Second Week Box Office Drop in DC History

No person at Warner Bros. goes to be laughing about this weekend’s box-office totals.

There are two two extra days, together with one huge evening, left to go, however to date Joker: Folie à Deux is exhibiting each signal of struggling a historic collapse on the field workplace. In accordance with Deadline, in its second weekend of launch, the Joker sequel “is posting a -82 % freefall of with round $6.7-$7M per business estimates.”

These numbers would make Folie à Deux “absolutely the worst maintain for a DC character film within the historical past of the model on the massive display screen.” Usually, hits decline lower than 60 % from weekend to weekend, and something over that share of decline is unhealthy. So an 82 % drop can be very disappointing.

In its opening weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux grossed $37.6 million within the U.S., down sharply from the primary movie, which had a $96.2 million opening weekend again in 2019. Mix an underwhelming debut with a large drop, and you’ve got the makings of one of many costliest flops in latest reminiscence.

Trade stories declare that Warner Bros. supposedly spent within the neighborhood of $200 million on the DC sequel, which stars Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck and Woman Gaga as Harley Quinn.

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Per Deadline, the earlier worst drop from first to second week for a DC Comics film was The Flash from 2023, which dropped 73 % from its opening weekend. (That opening weekend was nonetheless much better than Joker 2, at $55.0 million.) In addition they cite The Suicide Squad’s 72 % — however that had the added situation of being launched concurrently to theaters and to HBO Max, limiting its potential viewers.

An enormous drop will not be totally sudden, given Joker 2’s poor critiques from critics and audiences — who rated the film a “D,” the worst score ever given to a comic-book film. (Joker bought a B+ — even The Flash bought a B.

As an alternative of Joker, it appears to be like like a completely totally different clown is in line to rule the weekend field workplace: The indie gorefest Terrifier 3 seems on monitor to gross roughly $18 million in theaters.