Who"s To Blame For Joker 2?

After years of development, the new DC Universe film Joker: Folie à Deux has finally hit theaters, and the film"s initial box office performance has been disastrous, leading to questions about who is to blame for DC"s latest failure. Audience interest has not been kind to DC in the past few years, and Joker 2"s box office numbers clearly suggest that the film will likely be another miss for Warner Bros. Discovery. Movie performance is multifaceted, but there are several errors in making this film that have begun to become clear.
Following The Flash"s historic bombing despite bringing back Michael Keaton as Batman, it seems that the studio is struggling to connect with audiences. Following a middling performance by Black Adam and incredible failures of films as different as Blue Beetle, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, and now Joker 2, it seems that nothing the studio is doing is resonating. There is hope that the relaunch of the DC Universe with 2025"s Superman may change this, although understanding what went wrong with movies like Joker: Folie á Deux - and who is responsible - is key to moving forward.
Walter Hamada & Toby Emmerich Had Key Roles In Joker 2's Creation The Former Film Heads Of Warner Bros. And DC Got The Film Off The Ground Close Some of the blame for Joker 2"s failure may stand with the old studio regime, meaning no one may ultimately be held responsible. The Hollywood Reporter"s piece looking at the fallout of the movie also outlined former Warner Bros. chair Toby Emmerich"s involvement with the new film, tying the two together. While Emmerich stepped down from Warner Bros. in 2022 to be replaced by Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, the deals for Joker 2 were largely already in place under his guidance. With the wheels rolling, nothing could be done to stop them.
Due to these deals, the budget for Joker"s sequel, after the first film cost $55 million, ballooned significantly. The main forces behind the first film"s success, director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix, were able to command incredible paydays of $20 million each for the new sequel. They were also able to inflate the cost of the movie as a whole to around $190 million, a figure that they couldn"t even dream of for the first film.


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