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It ’s not an hyperbole to say that Warner Bros. is not felicitous right now . Still careen from its expensive military action prequelFuriosadisappointing at the box seat office over the summertime , the fabled studio apartment brook further embarrassment when its long - awaited , $ 190 million follow - up to the billion - dollar - gross 2019 hitJoker , Joker : Folie á Deux , fall flat , gross an mortifying $ 37.8 million over three days . To put this in circumstance , just over a month ago , the movie was projected to make over $ 100 million in its chess opening weekend .
What happened ? Well , that ’s atopic for another article , but the childlike version is this : if it is n’t good , and no one is ask for it , the great unwashed wo n’t see it . menses . Now the problem for WB is this : if few people want to seeJoker 2on the first weekend , what makes them think more will come on the second weekend ?
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That ’s what may happen in the next three days asJoker : Folie á Deuxis expected to drop at least 70 % at the box office . That ’s roughly in note with last class ’s amusing al-Qur’an flopThe Marvels , which also debuted with a soft $ 46 million before dropping a massive 78 % in its 2d weekend with a meager $ 10.1 million gross . For non - math nerds out there , that ’s around $ 8 million to $ 10 million for the DC Comics sequel . Ouch .
What make this spoilt is that the Joaquin Phoenix - led musical will be knocked off its first - situation perch by a revulsion sequel that be around $ 5 million to make . Terrifier 3 , the late chapter in the more and more democratic , and increasingly sanguineous , dealership , is contrive to gross at least $ 10 million , with an expectation that it will overperform and may polish off $ 15 million by the end of next Sunday . That ’s stunning for any film , much less one likeTerrifier 3 , to supplant a heavily hyped studio movie in its second weekend . That just does n’t befall , ever , and it ’s likely it will come about now .
It ’s a bit poetic that a moving picture about a homo who put on clown makeup to call up an army of anti - social misfits will be defeated by a repugnance movie star Art the Clown , who mainly invoke to the consultation that the first Joker brought it all the way back in 2019 . I just hopeTerrifier 4doesn’t have any melodic numbers with Art tap - dancing on someone ’s spleen .
Joker : Folie á DeuxandTerrifier 3are playing in theaters . cut both and watchThe Dark Knightagain on Max instead .
