Folie à Deux" critic. The auteur seemingly couldn't find any semblance of his "Taxi Driver" or Martin Scorsese's "King of Comedy" in "Joker: Folie à Deux," despite director Todd Phillips saying both inspired the Oscar-winning first film,

During a new sit-down conversation with Jeremy O. Harris for Interview Magazine, the filmmaker and screenwriter mentioned offhandedly that he had gone to watch the musical follow-up to the 2019 Joker, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as failed comedian Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.

Joker: Folie à Deux” was primed to be another twisted comic book smash. Instead, the sequel to 2019’s billion-dollar hit “Joker” is a box office disaster. So far, the offbeat musical about Batman’s notorious foe has grossed $51.

The Joker sequel has another catastrophic weekend at the box office, as another killer-clown ends Arthur Fleck's reign.

In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, Bryan Young shares writerly insight on what writers can learn from both the good and bad of Joker: Folie à Deux.

Folie à Deux plummeted in its sophomore frame at the box office. The genre-fluid sequel to 2019’s blockbuster hit Joker registered a record drop in collections domestically, cementing its stature as one of the biggest bombs of the year,

Getting the ball rolling on a sequel was the obvious move, but unfortunately, Joker: Folie à Deux is bombing at the box office, and Variety reports it could lose the studio at least $150 million to $200 million.

Joker: Folie à Deux is reportedly making history, but not in the way studio executives hoped for. The sequel to Todd Philips’ infamous comic book adaptation, Joker, reached UK theatres on 2 October 2024 to a mediocre reception and plummeting box office revenue.