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Oct6
'Joker' Box Office Shocker: 'Folie à Deux' Bombs With $40M Opening After Receiving D CinemaScore
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in "Joker: Folie à Deux" (image courtesy Warner Bros. / Everett Collection)
by Pamela McClintock
This is no joke.
Todd Phillips' sequel Joker: Folie à Deux bombed in its box office debut with an estimated domestic opening of $40 million, well behind expectations after becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie in history to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the antihero-musical mashup, which did less than half of the business the first Joker did in its launch.
The Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga pic was expected to open to at least $50 million to $60 million, but projections were continually downgraded throughout the weekend. Even on Saturday, most rival studios showed it opening to at least $45 million to $47 million. And don't forget that when the Warner Bros. movie first came on tracking three weeks ago, it was pacing to earn $70 million. The culprit behind the unfortunate turn-of-events: terrible word of mouth.
Overseas, Joker 2 opened everywhere this weekend, save for Japan and China, where it launches in the coming weeks. Warners had hoped for a foreign debut of $80 million to $85 million; overseas grosses weren't immediately available.
In 2019, Phillips' Joker debuted to a dreamy $96.2 million in North America on its way to a record-shattering worldwide total of $1 billion. The film earned relatively good reviews, while audiences gave it a B+ CinemaScore. It's critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes is a fresh 68 percent, compared to a rotten 33 percent for Foile à Deux.
Phillips' polarizing, R-rated sequel - which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival - is a genre-busting, music-infused film that strays outside the comfort zone of the typical fanboy-fueled comic book pic. Just as worrisome as the D CinemaScore are terrible exit scores on PostTrak, with audiences giving it a half-star out of five, similar to the early scores for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, which bombed in spectacular fashion last weekend with $4 million after earning a D+ CinemaScore. (Joker's PostTrak could change by the time the weekend wraps.)
Paramount Sets Glen Powell's 'Running Man' Remake for Fall 2025, 'Naked Gun' Reboot and 'Smurfs' Musical for Summer
A portrait of Glen Powell taken for Variety (image courtesy Variety)
by Jordan Moreau
After stealing the hearts of rom-com fans, tornado enthusiasts and hitmen this year, Glen Powell finally has his next major role dated for 2025.
He'll star in director Edgar Wright's remake of "The Running Man," which is being released by Paramount on Nov. 21, 2025, the company announced Friday. Powell is taking on the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 action film, based on the novel by Stephen King. The film takes place in a dystopian future where a TV show follows criminal "runners" escape professional killers.
Paramount shuffled the dates for several other 2025 films. The "Naked Gun" reboot, starring Liam Neeson, has moved from July 18 to August 1. The cast includes Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, Danny Huston, Liza Koshy, Cody Rhodes, CCH Pounder and Busta Rhymes. Neeson stars as the son of Leslie Nielsen's character in his classic, slapstick comedy franchise. It's directed by Akiva Schaffer with producers Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins.
Taking "Naked Gun's" original spot is an animated "Smurfs" musical, starring Rihanna. It's moving from February 14, 2025, to July 18. The voice cast includes Nick Offerman, Natasha Lyonne, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Nick Kroll, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Hannah Waddingham, Sandra Oh, Alex Winter, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña with Kurt Russell and John Goodman. It's directed by Chris Miller with co-director Matt Landon.
Finally, the Dakota Fanning-led horror movie "Vicious" will release on February 28, 2025, after initially being set for August 8. Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott and Emily Mitchell round out the cast. It's directed by Bryan Bertino.
"September 5," a historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the perspective of the ABC Sports news crew, also received an awards season release date. It's opening in limited release on November 29 and expanding on December 13. It stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and has been receiving Oscar buzz.
Clint Eastwood, 94, launches first trailer for possible final movie Juror No 2
by George Simpson
Clint Eastwood has launched the first trailer for what could be his final movie, Juror No 2.
Three years ago, Clint Eastwood released what many fans thought would be his final film, Cry Macho.
Although the modern Western could be his last acting role, the 94-year-old has directed another movie.
And now the Hollywood legend has launched the first trailer for Juror No 2 starring Nicholas Hoult.
The new film follows a juror in a high-profile murder trial who realises he actually committed the murder.
Alongside Hoult, the new film co-stars Toni Collette, Kiefer Sutherland and JK Simmons. According to Variety’s insiders, Warner Bros is "thrilled" by what they’ve seen of the movie so far.
Better Man: see Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey in first trailer for biopic
by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Robbie Williams fans have been given the first proper glimpse of one of history's strangest biopics: a retelling of his rise to fame with the Stoke pop singer portrayed by a CGI monkey.
Better Man, due for release on Boxing Day in the UK, is directed by Michael Gracey, who helmed The Greatest Showman and turned it into a $435m-grossing, pop chart-topping hit.
His new film follows Williams - played by actor Jonno Davies via motion capture technology - as he goes from a fractious childhood to boy-band success with Take That and then solo superstardom: 11 of his 12 studio albums topped the UK charts, as did three greatest hits compilations, and he holds the record for the most Brit awards, with 13. Along the way the film reportedly doesn't flinch from depicting his animal side, including drug problems and repellent star behaviour.
Better Man has played at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, with the Guardian's Benjamin Lee giving it a positive review at the latter. "From afar, it sounded like an intensely annoying gimmick, perhaps fitting for an entertainer who can often be intensely annoying himself, but the film ... is a surprising winner," he wrote. "It's not only Gracey's electric style and the central gimmick that make Better Man feel like an upgrade, it's the disarming honesty of Williams and how he's allowed himself to be portrayed."
With Williams speaking in voiceover, the trailer shows off Gracey's knack for a song-and-dance number with shots of a vast sequence under Christmas lights in London's Regent Street - as well as a breezy, very Williams-ish attitude to bad language.
Timothée Chalamet Kicks Off 'Marty Supreme' Filming in First Set Photos From A24 Ping Pong Movie
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Supreme in upcoming ping pong movie (image courtesy Getty)
by Ethan Shanfield
Timothée Chalamet has been spotted around Manhattan in costume as production gets underway for "Marty Supreme," his upcoming A24 movie about a professional table tennis player.
In the set photos, Chalamet is sporting a 1950s hairstyle, round wire-framed glasses and an oversized white shirt underneath a blue sweater vest.
Josh Safdie helms "Marty Supreme," his first solo feature directorial effort since 2008. Joining Chalamet in the cast are Gwyneth Paltrow (in her first on-screen movie role since 2019's "Avengers: Endgame") and Tyler, the Creator (in his film debut). Odessa A'zion also stars alongside magician Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller), investor and "Shark Tank" personality Kevin O'Leary (aka Mr. Wonderful) and "Bad Lieutenant" filmmaker Abel Ferrara. Plot details are unknown, but A24 posted an image of a ping pong ball with the words "coming soon" after Variety broke news of the project in July.
Safdie and Ronald Bronstein wrote the original screenplay for "Marty Supreme" and produce alongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Chalamet and A24.
Bill Skarsgård Is a Monstrous Vampire Terrorizing Lily-Rose Depp in Chilling New Nosferatu Trailer
by Tommy McArdle and Jen Juneau
It's almost time for Nosferatu.
On Monday, Sept. 30, Focus Features released a new trailer for filmmaker Robert Eggers' upcoming movie Nosferatu, giving a glimpse at Bill Skarsgård's look as the vampire at the heart of its story.
"You've had these spells since childhood. Tell me what you can, from the beginning," Willem Dafoe's character tells Lily-Rose Depp's, Ellen Hutter, before she recounts her horrific memories.
"It is like a dream. It was our wedding. When we turned around ... everyone was dead," Ellen says. "The stench of their bodies was horrible. Standing before me was ... death."
"But I'd never been so happy," she adds chillingly.
The movie "is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake," according to an official synopsis.
Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson and Simon McBurney also star in the new movie, which is a remake of the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.
A previous teaser for the movie released in June teased Depp's character Ellen as she is haunted by the vampire, while characters portrayed by Dafoe, 69, and Hoult, 34, seek the monster - also known as Count Orlok - out.
Both this movie and the original Nosferatu are based on author Bram Stoker's classic 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.
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