We know how much Warner will lose on Joker 2

The amount of money raised isn’t the only sign that “Joker: Folie à Deux” was a box office failure this year. We’ve been talking about it since its release, and it fell sharply in its second week, confirming the drama. Only the damage assessment remains: how much will Warner pay for the joke?

To sum up. After a weekend of $7.05 million in the US and $22.7 million internationally, ‘Joker 2’ grossed $165.3 million in its second week. That is, box office drops of 82% and 70.5%, surpassing films like ‘The Marvels’ (78.1%) and ‘Quantumania’ (69.9%) that were already considered failures due to their precipitous second-week declines. ‘Joker 2‘ cost $200 million to produce, $100 million to market, and Warner needed $375-400 to profit, according to sources.

It has tail. Let’s remember that we’re not talking about a film that fails at the box office but can find a place in streaming and be sold by the producer in a relatively advantageous way due to its cast or franchise, as with Lionsgate’s recent stumbles like ‘Borderlands‘ or ‘The Crow’ (we’ll see how they reach number 1 on platforms where they’re released easily). A production with a 33% Rotten Tomatoes and an unusual D Cinemascore rating will have a difficult career. This film transcends its box office.

How much will ‘Joker 2’ lose? Variety reported that production company sources estimate losses between 125 million and 200 million. Warner attempts to discredit these claims: “The film is still in theatres, including this week’s premiere in China, and will continue to earn revenue throughout its viewing at home and in auxiliary theatres.”

Home on Oct. 29. Warner announced yesterday that the film would be released on platforms, initially for rental, on 29th October to offset the negative press from the second weekend free fall. The same month it was released. To offset its high cost, Warner produced the film with Domain, which will reduce losses.

James Gunn is hurting. As mentioned, ‘Joker 2’ affects Warner’s finances and more. The DC brand suffers significant damage as fans of the first film oppose the idea of the Joker joining the DC Cinematic Universe. However, James Gunn and Peter Safran may not care about the negative press either. ‘Joker 2’ is alone.

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a box office disaster, but the most common question is why it’s a musical? It’s not an extravagant idea, and it’s been done before. The well-known Prince composed an eccentric thematic album for Tim Burton’s 1989 film ‘Batman‘, making all the characters sing, including the Joker, played by Jack Nicholson.

Prince’s Batman isn’t necessarily the film’s soundtrack. Danny Elfman once said he and Prince were going to co-write the film’s iconic incidental music. The project fired Elfman for refusing. The producers reconsidered and asked Elfman to return after Prince delivered a score that couldn’t be used to score a superhero movie, which at the time wasn’t even known how it should sound if it wasn’t an imitation of John Williams’ Superman score. The move worked: Elfman’s first multimillion-dollar hit and Prince’s album sold well.

Prince’s eleventh studio album was released immediately after the devastating ‘Lovesexy‘ and is his only soundtrack to a film in which he did not act. It started simple: Burton used Prince’s songs ‘1999’ and ‘Baby I’m a Star’ in an early cut of the film and liked them so much that he asked him to re-record them or write new ones.

After visiting the set in January 1989, seeing what they had recorded, and discussing a concept album with Burton, Prince became interested. Because it would have cost him a fortune, he decided not to cancel the Japanese Lovesexy Tour to record it. After the tour, he recorded a three-song album demo in a month. Two would replace Burton’s. The work was approved, so he started. He ended the album with ‘Batdance’.

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Prince needed a hit (six weeks at number one) because ‘Lovesexy’ and ‘Sign O’the Times’ had been critical successes but not public successes, hence Warner’s support for him to compose the soundtrack for an almost certain success like ‘Batman’. Even though the album isn’t a commercial success.

It’s odd that their album-closing ‘Batdance’, a rushed collage of funk sounds and samples lasting almost seven minutes, is their most popular song. It features a dialogue between all the album’s characters and references the Bat Man as a pop icon (those choruses were brilliantly stolen from the 1960s TV series’ theme tune). The result is unclassifiable and shows the album’s variety of textures.

Batman sings ‘The Future’ and ‘Scandalous’, the Joker sings ‘Electric Chair’ and ‘Trust’, Bruce Wayne sings ‘Vicki Waiting’, Vicki Vale sings ‘Lemon Crush’, and both sing ‘The Arms of Orion’. In ‘Batdance’ a character called Gemini also appears, a kind of Batman for Prince, being half Prince and half Joker. Prince sings in ‘Trust’ and shouts “Stop!” in ‘Batdance’.

Confusing? It is: the lyrics are cryptic, relying on sensorial saturation and idea explosion rather than plot. They also explore Prince’s interests, such as Wayne and Vale’s romance and his fascination with the Joker, as shown in Gemini and the album’s best song, ‘Partyman’, which he wrote after meeting Jack Nicholson.

Prince plays the Joker and makes us want a shameless and carefree Folie à Deux. With iconic lines like “All hail the new king in town,” Prince’s Joker channels Jack Nicholson’s performance, buried by time but funnier than Heath Ledger or the whiny Joaquin Phoenix. It also shows why the comic book Joker is so terrifying: he just wants to laugh. Hell or high water.

We know how much Warner will lose on Joker 2

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