The killing nope: ‘Joker’ sequel bombs at the box office
Moviegoers say adieu to ‘Folie à Deux,’ causing the sequel to lag behind predecessor’s $96.2M debut.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Oct. 4-6, 2024.
1. Joker: Folie à Deux
Weekend gross: $40M
Total domestic gross: $40M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
It’s not often a movie unites the world like Joker: Folie à Deux. Critics hate it. Moviegoers hate it. And it flopped at the box office.
The sequel’s $40 million opening weekend is quite the fall from the first Joker movie. That one opened with $96.2 million in 2019 and went on to gross $335.5 million in North America and $1.063 billion worldwide.
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