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Hype for Skywalker is negligible right now, but it not hitting a billion would be properly disastrous.

Maybe this movie will be so badly received it'll be a blessing in disguise: RDJ will realise he should take the Christian Bale route and not give a shit about making money he doesn't need and pick, y'know, half-interesting projects.

I'm afraid in my absolutist BO world there can only be one. The rest are all pitiful failures. 😈

Joker getting to a billion would be the most impressive BO story of the year. Which seems doubly insane given Endgame's total, but

The OS figures are heartening. See, Hollywood? International audiences don't only like action movies.

Oh god, people are going to be disappointed with under 60m, aren't they?

6:30pm Picturehouse Central totally sold out last night, and going by the chaos in the lobby I assume the subsequent showings were very busy. If you know that cinema you'll know that's a very big screen.

The film isn't clever by any stretch of the imagination, but it's hard to deny it's a bit of a thrill to be watching something that you can't quite believe exists. Yeah, there have been R-rated CBMs, but this has neither the broad comedy of Deadpool nor the gritty heroism of Logan. It's two hours of pitiful, hopeless misery. You feel dirty after watching it. And for better or worse the MCU will never, ever make something like it. But yes, beyond the dreamy style, it can be rather quite bone-headed. I think the incel stuff has been exaggerated - if anything this is a liberal-leaning movie that pounds you over the head with all the systemic failures that impact the individual. If Arthur is sympathetic it's only because things bigger than him are worse. Credit to Phillips, they don't make him an anti-hero, as I feared when the project was announced. Society may have created this horrible person, but he is still a horrible person. I did enjoy the talk-show scene. You know something horrific's going to happen and the film never lets you off that queasy hook. Seeing him become the Joker after 100 minutes of foreplay struck the right note. Sitting in his full make-up, on the verge of exploding, he is genuinely menacing. The dancing and the camper voice were also great, they paid homage to their comic book roots in the right way. I'd say I wanted more of that, but then the effect would be lost. Perhaps the mere glimpse was enough. I don't know if I'll ever have the energy to watch the movie again. But I enjoyed how much it made me want to have a shower. And a cigarette.

"Aims to repeat at #1 this weekend" Yeah, no shit Gitesh.

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"£12.6m = $15.5m" God, the pound really has taken a battering in the last few years. Anyway, seeing this at a Picturehouse on Friday. Looks like they've just added another showing today to accommodate unexpectedly high demand.

Feeling pretty good about entering that >300m club.

Ouch at that budget. Expensive original movies sure don't make it easy on themselves.

Headshot is a troll. Don't feed him.

As far as I can tell the paper's now officially reviewed it three times since Kermode's write-up was added. So that's... 5 stars, 2 stars and 4 stars.

It's going nuts in the UK. I've noticed on twitter that a lot of people who pertained to hate everything the movie (apparently) stood for still ended up seeing it.

I wonder if Phoenix has a profit participation deal for this.

Dude, unless you can quote a post you made from well before the trailer dropped that you predicted these kind of numbers this is all just convenient, after-the-fact noise.

So much Monday morning quarterbacking going on now it's opened huge - as though it was always going to.

nvm...

He/she's right, to be fair. It's Disney's increasingly boring world and we just live in it.

Dufuq is kind of emotion is that poster trying to elicit?

If you told me two years ago that I'd buy tickets to see a Joker solo movie made by the director of the Hangover I'd have thought you were mad. So whatever else you say about the film, it made cynics like me interested. (Granted, having one of the best trailers of modern times didn't hurt.)

Venom's WW gross really was ludicrous, wasn't it? Comic book movies' BO performance are usually at least slightly correlated to quality, but not that time.