Folie à Deux’ Eyes opened at the global box office with $140 million

Todd Phillips’ musical sequel Joker: Folie à Deux opens this week and is not currently expected to mimic the business of the 2019 Warner Bros film Jokerwhich ultimately finished as the second highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, grossing $1.07 billion, earning 11 Oscar nominations and earning two nominations, including for Joaquin Phoenix in the Best Leading Actor category.

As for the sequel, so far the global film is looking better than the domestic one, taking in $140 million, with currently lower projections of $55-60 million in 4,000 U.S. theaters with all the gimmicks of Imax and PLF screens. The original national forecast, when it achieved three-week tracking, was for more than $70 million.

First Joker exceeded the domestic forecast of $80 million for an all-time high opening of $96.2 million, and exceeded the global forecast of $155 million for $248.2 million (2019 figures not adjusted for inflation and currency fluctuations ).

Still, with net production costs exceeding $190 million, Joker: Folie à DeuxThe company’s expected business at this point is not bad for the exhibition and not necessarily bad for the film itself. Who doesn’t want a movie whose October box office opens at $55 million and $140 million? Does anyone not want that? Why so seriously, industry? Because they have business expectations for a sequel to The Dark Knight and many must remember that it is a sequel to an R-rated game. Taxi driver– like social commentary featuring a DC villain who just so happened to catch the wave and outperform.

The question is whether fanboys are willing to see a Gaga-Phoenix musical duet that will be almost as dark in tone as the first film. Nobody expected this first Joker go wild in its opening; there was a fear at the time that this would be the case The Dark Knight Rises copycat shootings. All these fears were dispelled as the film opened.

Similar to the first one JokerWarners held the world premiere of this sequel in Venice, though that didn’t help with reviews, which are at 62% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes (compared to the first film’s 69% from critics). This hasn’t helped pre-sales, which currently indicate an opening lower than $55 million, although sources believe Joker 2 can get the current forecast. Previews begin on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the United States Joker 2 has first choice for older men, then younger men under 25, then older women over 25.

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Gaga’s only pillar to date, awarded with an Oscar A star is bornwhose sale in October 2018 reached a price of USD 42.9 million. She looks best in this figure Joker 2which should become her best film opening in the country.

Hoping to bring her Little Monsters to theaters, Gaga released a companion album to the film, Harlequinlast Friday.

Joker 2 it could also score best opening for a live, non-Disney musical, potentially before its November 2018 premiere. “Bohemian Rhapsody”.which started at $51 million.

Joker: Folie à Deux launched on Tuesday on its first offshore market, Korea, with a No. 1 start of $1.3 million. Remember that they are taking advantage of a local holiday. Korea was also the opening weekend leader Jokerwhich was surprising at the time, considering it wasn’t clear how the film’s darker elements would play out. This time it may simply be the musical factor that gets the audience to focus. And this week we have another holiday ahead of us.

Overall, the rest of the offshore rollout begins in earnest on Wednesday in 14 markets, including major markets in France and Italy. Thursday adds 45, with Germany, Australia, Brazil and Mexico among the main ones. Friday brings you closer to Spain and Great Britain.

Expectations for this first wave internationally are $80-85M+. Year 2019 Joker it opened to $139 million overseas on the back of likes from winning the Golden Lion in Venice.

After this weekend, Japan will be on board on October 11 and China on October 16. As we saw, the first Joker it was not released in China.

Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s Wild Robot it looks like its second weekend will be close to $20 million, down 45%, after a strong opening of $35 million. The Chris Sanders-directed film earned $2.2 million on Monday for a running total of $38 million.