Folie à Deux" enough breathing room to avoid a total disaster after all? Take a look at the most likely high-end and low-end outcomes.

Folie À Deux have been building for months (if not years). When Joker came out in 2019, it ended up being a phenomenon – not just earning over $1 billion worldwide, but becoming the highest grossing R-rated film of all time and earning star Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award.

Joker 2,' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, fails to rise to the box office standards set by its Oscar-winning predecessor.

Just three weeks ago, tracking services pegged the movie for a $70 million debut, which would still have been down a fair amount from “Joker’s” record-breaking $96.2 million launch in Oct. 2019. Reviews were mixed out of the Venice Film Festival, where it premiered in competition like the first movie and even got a 12-minute standing ovation.

Todd Phillips' anti-hero musical starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is the first Hollywood comic book pic in history to receive the failing grade.

Joker: Folie à Deux' is off to a shaky performance at the domestic box office after earning $20 million on its opening day.

The highly anticipated musical sequel to the 2019 hit “Joker” from Warner Bros.’s movie studio delivered just $40 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. That performance fell short of already modest industry projections that it would gross between $50 million and $60 million.

The bleak musical drama is on track to open to around $45 million, less than half of what the 2019 version made on its first weekend.

"Joker: Folie à Deux” debuted to an estimated $81.1 million this weekend to top the international box office. The film, which is a follow-up to 2019’s “Joker,” earned a disappointing $40 million domestically.

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