JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX's Disastrous Box Office Run Continues As Moviegoers Return To DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX's Disastrous Box Office Run Continues As Moviegoers Return To DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

During its third weekend in theaters, things have gone from bad to worse for Joker: Folie à Deux as Deadpool & Wolverine closes in on a record currently held by last year's mega-hit, Barbie. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Oct 19, 2024 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Joker

As expected, Smile 2 has gone straight to #1 at the North American box office this weekend with a $23 million opening. The movie received a B CinemaScore from audiences, an improvement over Smile's B- score. 

One sequel that isn't making much of an impression, though, is Joker: Folie à Deux. The movie lost 1,245 theaters during its third weekend and is eyeing a disastrous $2 million - $2.5 million haul over the three-day frame following a laughable $665,000 Friday. 

Now, the Joker follow-up sits at a dismal $54.9 million in the U.S. 

Exhibitors have decided to instead rally around Deadpool & Wolverine. Yes, the movie is available on Digital and just days away from hitting DVD and Blu-ray, but it added an additional 535 theaters this weekend and grossed $185,000 on Friday.

With a predicted $500,000 - $700,000 haul during its thirteenth weekend, it looks set to pass Barbie's $636.2 million haul from last summer by close of business on Sunday.

Here's the current Top 10 for this weekend:

1. Smile 2 ($23 million)
2. The Wild Robot ($10.7 million)
3. Terrifier 3 ($9.8 million)
4. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ($5 million)
5. We Live in Time ($4.3 million)
6. Joker: Folie à Deux ($2.2 million)
7. Piece by Piece ($2 million)
8. Transformers One ($2 million)
9. Saturday Night ($1.8 million)
10. Nightmare Before Christmas ($1.3 million)

2024 has seen many titles re-released in theaters as a result of the delays caused by last year's WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Theaters continue to struggle but 2025 is shaping up to be a much better year for them thanks to Marvel and DC.

Earlier this year, we concluded our Deadpool & Wolverine review - which you can read by clicking here - by saying, "A contender for the best superhero movie ever, Deadpool & Wolverine is two hours of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman proving they were born to play these roles and, crucially, be part of the MCU. It’s a f***ing masterpiece."

In contrast, our review of Joker: Folie à Deux wrapped up with, "Lady Gaga shines and Joaquin Phoenix brings more of the same to Joker: Folie à Deux, a wholly unnecessary sequel with no new ideas and nothing to say. It doesn’t work as a movie or a musical. What a waste of $200 million."

Talking of Smile 2, Sony Pictures has very cleverly found a way to tie that into Venom: The Last Dance's marketing campaign:

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marvel72
marvel72 - 10/19/2024, 1:08 PM
I want to see Smile 2 and Terrifier 3, Smile was good and I enjoy shit like Terrifier.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 10/19/2024, 2:06 PM
@marvel72 - Terrifier can be really great but Damien Leone isn't a good writer. He is excellent at visual FX but the writing and pacing is all over the place. It has the seeds for a truly great Slasher saga but he just focuses on the kills and not the meat and potatoes of the story and characters.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:36 PM
@marvel72 - what's the scene with the totally gruesome kill I've read about?
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/19/2024, 3:23 PM
@lazlodaytona - I haven't seen the third Terrifier but I heard there is one involving a rat coming out of a slit throat.

The worse scenes from the first two are a woman gets sawn in half from her vagina to the top of her head and a bedroom scene involving a scalping,broken bones,then covered in bleach and set on fire
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/20/2024, 6:38 PM
@marvel72 - "I heard there is one involving a rat coming out of a slit throat."

dude, that's no worse than the DOOM PATROL episode of Robotman having a mouse coming outta his head:

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slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 10/19/2024, 1:12 PM
Where are all those big time Joker fans?? They all got pretty quiet after opening weekend.
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 10/19/2024, 1:19 PM
@slickrickdesigns - This movie was not made for Joker fans, or fans of good movies.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/19/2024, 1:34 PM
@slickrickdesigns - I'm a fan of the first movie but the second movie got shit reviews, so I can wait for it to come to streaming service.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 10/19/2024, 2:06 PM
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:39 PM
@slickrickdesigns - I actually have still yet to have seen it. Literally because I've been so busy.
I LOVED JOKER so I'm still gonna give part 2 a chance.
Thing is, I tend to like films everyone rejects: Sucker Punch and Southland Tales being two of them. So, I'm hoping this'll be the same.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:39 PM
@marvel72 - I understand that thinking for sure
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/20/2024, 7:49 AM
@lazlodaytona - Yeah man, everyone is slating the movie and I'm not a fan of musicals, so not going to spend on something I might hate.
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 10/19/2024, 1:18 PM
Mark Millar and Ethan Van Sciver were on X yesterday posting like only smart people can see how great Joker 2 is. Van Sciver is even trying to say Joker was not raped.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 10/19/2024, 1:22 PM
@PartyKiller -

Squeal like a pig.
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 10/19/2024, 1:27 PM
@DocSpock - Van Sciver and Millar believe in the power of healing butt-rape.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 10/19/2024, 1:35 PM
@PartyKiller -

Which makes them right at home in Hollywood.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 10/19/2024, 2:17 PM
@DocSpock - In all fairness, he DID have a purdy mouth.

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 10/19/2024, 2:22 PM
@PartyKiller - I wonder what Van Sciver's mental gymnastics were for when Arthur willfully kisses a guy and keeps him as prison meat. Doesn't that go against everything Van Sciver believes in?
DocSpock
DocSpock - 10/19/2024, 2:27 PM
@Feralwookiee -

That’s pretty good research. Those old pictures of Gusto are hard to come by.

lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:40 PM
@PartyKiller - WTF?! There was a butt-rape scene?! Please explain....
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 10/19/2024, 8:16 PM
@lazlodaytona - We don't use the "r" word around here.
I believe the proper terminology today is "spontaneous man-love".

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lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/20/2024, 6:48 PM
@Feralwookiee - dude.....
just gross....
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 10/19/2024, 1:20 PM
This will go down in history as one of the biggest flops in the entire industry.
JDL
JDL - 10/19/2024, 1:25 PM
@TheJok3r - All parties connected to 'The Marvels' wish to add their sincere gratitude for taking the crown for the biggest CBM flop ever.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 10/19/2024, 2:06 PM
@JDL - The Marvels wasn't even that bad. It has some really cool fight scenes.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:41 PM
@JDL - or, Morbius
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 10/19/2024, 3:43 PM
@JDL - At least the Marvels was liked by people, even if it didn't do well at the box office. Joker 2 is universally hated by everyone. It's rated lower than Catwoman. How do you get a lower rating than that ?
LSHF
LSHF - 10/19/2024, 4:27 PM
@TheJok3r - "How do you get a lower rating than that ("Catwoman")?"

Because Joker's outfit wasn't near as sexy as Catwoman's.

🤪

JDL
JDL - 10/19/2024, 11:31 PM
@SonOfAGif - FWIW I liked the Marvels on my first viewing. But after all the negative psotings I was more critical on the second pass and stuff that had grazed past me the first time brought on a lot of winces the second.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 10/19/2024, 1:32 PM

So WB has played another massive joke(r) on its investors.

I wonder what they think of this one.

Spidey91
Spidey91 - 10/19/2024, 1:39 PM
Forfeit your false prophets and return to the warm embrace of your one true saviour, the one and only Marvel Jesus.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 10/19/2024, 1:40 PM
Ps: you guys could go out and watch Transformers One also, that one actually needs some support.
CoHost
CoHost - 10/19/2024, 1:49 PM
It makes sense. Phoenix hates Hollywood so much, he made this movie to become the biggest bomb ever just to get back at them. Genius.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:44 PM
@CoHost - dude, he's made plenty of films that didn't make money and are just totally f***ed up.
One of those, one I can't believe how insanely weird it got, was "Beau Is Afraid."
That's one of the most f'd up films ever......
.
CoHost
CoHost - 10/20/2024, 4:01 AM
@lazlodaytona - None of which have the toxic WOM nor budget of this. Not even Napoleon.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/20/2024, 6:49 PM
@CoHost - what is WOM?
CoHost
CoHost - 10/20/2024, 8:07 PM
@lazlodaytona - word of mouth
LibraMatter
LibraMatter - 10/19/2024, 1:54 PM
Man this site is beating the heck out of a dead horse. We get it! People don’t like it. Haha. We get it, it didn’t do well at the box office.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/19/2024, 2:48 PM
@LibraMatter - completely agree. let it be.....

This could 'maybe' be one of those that bombed at the theater then gets a huge cult following: Shawshank Redemption, It's a Wonderful Life, Office Space....ect
LibraMatter
LibraMatter - 10/19/2024, 7:24 PM
@lazlodaytona - exactly. I’ve seen in any comment board there have been hand fulls of people saying they really enjoyed. Comment boards outside of comicbookmove.com . So, I think it’s possible for it to find its audience outside of the movie theater.
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