Set two years after the events in his billion-dollar grossing and Oscar-nominated prequel, the Golden Globe-winning director Todd Phillips spent five years on the sequel ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’, which managed to bring in only one-fifth of its predecessor’s at the box office, despite being far more expensive to make. In the sequel, Hollywood A-lister […]

But that was far behind the $96.2 opening of the original ‘Joker’ in 2019, a movie that earned Joaquin Phoenix a best-actor Oscar and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. Industry analyst David A. Gross called it a weak opening for the follow-up sequel in a superhero series. ‘Folie a Deux’ – French for ‘shared […]