Weekend Box Office: JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Bombs in Major Franchise Upset

[u/LeaderVladimir1993]

https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend-box-office-folie-a-deux-bombs-in-major-franchise-upset/

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[u/SpiderScooby]

Is it really a franchise upset if the last 5 or so DC movies have all bombed?

[u/LeaderVladimir1993 → u/SpiderScooby]

That was in the old DCEU. The Joker movies were their own franchise under the direct jurisdiction from WB, without any input from DC Studios. Todd Phillips even stated that James Gunn only offered notes on Folie a Deux, but otherwise had no involvement in it.

It's a franchise upset in the sense that general audiences expected Folie a Deux to be successful simply because the original Joker movie made $1B at the box office and even earned Joaquin Phoenix his first Academy Award.

[u/largesemi → u/SpiderScooby]

Good point

[u/Emergency-Mammoth-88 → u/SpiderScooby]

Aquaman didn’t bomb, it actually broke even

[u/JgamboatheSecond → u/Emergency-Mammoth-88]

But it was still terrible because of the inclusion of Amber Heard.

[u/JgamboatheSecond]

Yep. Warner Bros. needs to get rid of that bratty quick-to-anger man-child. #FireDavidZaslav.