Joker’s pratfall

The writing was on the wall as the box office tracking went into freefall a couple weeks before the film even opened, but Joker: Folie à Deux tanked over the weekend, opening with just $40 million. For comparison, The Marvels, last year’s widely derided superhero bomb, opened with $46 million, The Flash opened with $55 million, and back in 2019, Joker opened with $96 million, on its way to billion-dollar box office. Worse, though, is that Folie à Deux earned a D CinemaScore, which means no one likes it. Backing that up is the Rotten Tomatoes rating, which unlike its predecessor, is in lock-step with critics and audiences both rating it under 35%. I always say CinemaScores, Rotten Tomatoes, box office, these things are not the full measure of a film’s success, but when they ALL line up like this, yeah, you made a stinker.   ...Full Story