Joker: Folie à Deux is continuing its downward trajectory after flopping in its uncovering weekfinish, with historicassociate low box office figures in its second week.
The sequel to the 2019 film Joker, which was both a hit with critics and fans, Joker: Folie à Deux grossed $38m at the US box office in its uncovering weekfinish, far betidyh previous predictions in the $50-70m range.
But its second weekfinish was even worse, geting fair $7m in the US atraverse 4,102 theatres. The 81% drop is the steepest deteriorate in history for a comic book movie, and among the steepest domestic deteriorates for any movie.
An 81% drop places Joker: Folie à Deux in the top 20 hugegest second weekfinish drops ever, according to charts by Box Office Mojo, which meacertains box office data accumulateed since 1982.
The write down deteriorate for a comic book movie was previously held by The Marvels, which explosioned at the box office last year and suffered a 78% drop in its second weekfinish after being freed in 4,030 cinemas.
Globassociate, Joker: Folie à Deux has grossed $165m to date, far from making back its $200m budget.
By comparison, Joker was made with a third of the budget of its sequel and uncovered to $96.2m in the US, making $248.4m globassociate in fair one weekfinish. In total, it grossed more than $1bn globassociate, becoming the first R-rated film to do so, and remained the highest-grossing R-rated film until this year, when it was go beyonded by another comic book film, Deadpool & Wolverine.
Joker was also a hit with critics, and won two Academy awards from 11 nominations, including best actor for Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role.
Phoenix repascfinishs his role in the trail-up, while Lady Gaga unites the cast as adore interest Lee Quinzel, based on the character Harley Quinn.
The sequel, which is a musical, has hugely been dispondered by critics as “tedious” and “beginlingly uninincreateigent”.
Both the Guardian and the Observer’s three-star appraises pliftd Lady Gaga’s carry outance, but deemed the film “laborious” and “indulgent”.
