Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Box Office: “Joker 2” Collapses, Posts First Day Under $1 Million, Down 54% from Sunday

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The tragic end of “Joker Folie a Deux” has arrived.

For Warner Bros, these days the box office is a mixed bag. They’re booming with “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” now headed to $300 million.

But “Joker 2” has been a severe disappointment. On Monday, a holiday no less, the Todd Phillips movie fell 54% from Sunday. The total take was just $930,000, the first time the box office lodged less than a million bucks.

The party is over, and “Joker 2” is headed to streaming on October 29th. With just $53 million total, the studio has no choice. The budget was at least $200 million.

Will there be more “Joker” movies? I doubt it. We may see someone play the Joker in a Batman movie. But this will be the end of Joaquin Phoenix’s days tripping the crazy light fantastic.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York 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. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. 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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