https://variety.com/2024/film/news/joker-folie-a-deux-lose-warner-bros-millions-box-office-flop-1236176479/
Gonna be like Suicide Squad 2 and Women Woman 2 (but those were pandemic)
It just keeps getting worse
shareDamn. I don't think Todd Phillips is going to be directing any major studio releases any time soon.
shareAccording to wiki, $200 mil would make it the biggest box office bomb besides the marvels (unadjusted for inflation)
shareAnd, the film starts streaming October 29, less than a month after it debuted in theaters.
Naturally, Phoenix, Gaga and Philips received their pay regardless. No back end, but they also won't be affected by the massive loss.
As soon as we heard the premise, didn't a lot of us think this wasn't going to work? How did the studio not see that? It seems that any director with successful projects to their name gets full "Director's Cut" and gets to make whatever they want to.