Sunday, July 12, 2026

Box Office: “Joker 2” Implodes with Smaller Numbers Than Reported, Only $37.8 Mil Opening

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Yesterday, Warner Bros. guesstimated a $40 million opening for “Joker Folie a Deux.” It turns out they were overly optimistic.

As it turns out, “Joker” came in at just $37.8 million. That is a disaster worse than what was expected.

The Todd Phillips’ directed sequel to his 2019 hit just went wrong in every way. Rather than leave well enough alone, the producers and director made a movie no one wanted to see. And they didn’t.

The only bright spot is that Lady Gaga has a hit album, “Harlequin,” currently lodged at number 14 on iTunes. It would be doing better but so far there’s no CD or LP. Still, it should get Grammy nominations and maybe an Oscar nomination for one of its two original songs.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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