How much money did “Joker 2” make in its first few days in theaters? Which film in the saga earned more?

Joker: Folie À Deux suffered a disappointing opening weekend, grossing an estimated $40 million at the U.S. box office – less than half the amount earned by the first film in the supervillain origin story franchise.

Folie À Deuxthe sequel from 2019 jokerreached a disappointing total of 4,102 theaters in the States, according to Box Office Mojo. For comparison: joker extrapolated just over $96 million in its opening weekend five years ago after being shown in 4,374 U.S. theaters.

joker grossed around $335 million in the United Statesaccording to Box Office Mojo, with international grosses of $743 million, pushing the film’s total revenue past the $1 billion mark.

joker Continuation “pathologically unnecessary”

Folie À DeuxThe poor opening of is due to a number of negative reviews for the film, which again stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker.

Richard Lawson from Vanity Fair dismissed Folie À Deux as “terrifyingly boring”with the BBC’s Nicholas Barber agreeing that it’s “definitely not much fun”.

In the New York Post, Johnny Oleksinski writes: “Almost two and a half hours long The pathologically unnecessary film from director Todd Phillips goes through so many possible reasons for existence. But as ‘Deux’ becomes increasingly disturbing, repulsive and strange on the hunt, it ultimately never finds a satisfying conclusion.”

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Will there be a third? joker Film?

Both Phoenix and Phillips, who also directed the first film, have stated that they have no plans to direct the film joker Franchise into a trilogy. “It was fun to play in that kind of sandbox for two movies, but I think we said what we wanted to say in this world” the director told Variety in August.

Phoenix has since said the physical demands of the performance joker – he had to lose around 22 kilos for the role – may be too big to justify a third film.

“I’m 49 now, I probably shouldn’t do this again,” the actor told reporters at the Venice Film Festival in September, according to Variety. “That’s probably it for me.”