Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker 2 is a streaming hit on Max after field workplace bombing

Simply three months in the past, Hollywood entered awards season with hopes that Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” (read /Film’s review) can be each a runaway blockbuster and a critical Oscar contender like its predecessor “Joker,” which was nominated for 11 Oscars. There was Joaquin Phoenix, considered one of Hollywood’s most formidable skills (and infamous flakes, as Todd Haynes would probably tell you) returning to the function that received him the Finest Actor trophy, and a splashy addition to the franchise in Girl Gaga, whose wild-eyed variation on the Joker’s love curiosity, Harley Quinn, was to place her in rivalry for her second nomination for finest actress.

None of this occurred.

After opening weekend, projections had been steadily lowered from $100 million to $45 million, “Joker: Folie à Deux” flopped in its first field workplace image with a paltry $38 million (whereas “Joker” earned $40 million on its first day of launch in 2019). Critiques have been horrible, whereas moviegoers gave it a lethal D through the Cinemascore ballot. After an 81% drop in its second weekend (the worst ever for a DC movie), “Joker: Folie à Deux” disappeared from home theaters, and the one clown that counted in American theaters for the remainder of the autumn was referred to as Artwork. .

The longer term defeated blockbuster was so poisonous that it felt like it might without end be relegated to the dustbin of cinema, by no means to be talked about once more. Effectively, it is a week earlier than Christmas and I’ve some fairly excellent news for Phillips and his wound-licking cronies.

According to FlixPatrol“Joker: Folie à Deux” is at present essentially the most streamed film on Max after its debut final week on the service. Meaning it is even forward of the not too long ago added “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and Christmas favorites “Elf” and “Nationwide Lampoon’s Christmas Trip.”

Does this imply “Joker: Folie à Deux” might reverse its fortunes by changing into a late-breaking streaming hit? And if that is the case, might a 3rd “Joker” movie nonetheless be on the playing cards? God no. Even when the movie is primary on the service for a month or two (which will not occur), there is not any manner the besieged, David Zaslav mismanaged Warner Bros. will threat one other $200 million in one other spherical with Phoenix and Gaga (particularly because the sequel’s ending complicates what would possibly occur in a follow-up). For now, WB ought to get pleasure from this very minor victory and give attention to James Gunn’s new DC film series (in addition to Matt Reeves’ sequel to “The Batman”). As a result of despite the fact that many individuals are watching “Joker: Folie à Deux” at residence, they’re most likely simply as disenchanted with the ersatz musical as all of us had been again in October.