Joker: Folie a Deux | October 4, 2024 | Lady Gaga is Harley Quinn in this 200M+ musical sequel

[lorddemaxus]

1 minute ago, OncomingStorm93 said:

This film seems to be rehashing societal themes from the pre-Covid world. Society has a different psyche these days.

It really doesn’t lol. Joker would’ve probably resonated with people today as much as it did in 2019.

[WittyUsername]

I could see this opening to less than Beetlejuice 2. 

[gojorager]

how exactly was Gucci not a hit? 150 WW in the midst of Omicron for an R rated drama that's still higher than most nowadays + she's #1 on the WW charts w the Bruno collab at the moment, ah yes her popularity is so 2010's 

[Mad Max007]

2 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

I could see this opening to less than Beetlejuice 2. 

WB will make Keaton play Beetlejuice now till he's 100 lol.

[gojorager]

Forecasting a 115-145m opening weekend domestic

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, OncomingStorm93 said:

How big of a draw is Gaga, really? She’s a decade past peak popularity. A Star Is Born was 6 years ago, her last album was 4 years ago, and it’s not like she made House of Gucci a hit, and she was the top-billed star.

The first single from her new album (coming next year) drops next month around the time this opens (but seems entirely unrelated to this movie). As for her presence here, I guess there's the question of whether her stans are even excited for this. House of Gucci at least promised her being on screen for almost the entirety of a 2.5 hour movie, but the enthusiasm tends to be a different story when their fave is clearly nothing more than a featured player for marketing purposes. The fact early reviews are calling her "wasted" in this seem unlikely to do it any favors either.

Edited September 6 by filmlover

[excel1]

Gaga is the exact type of persona who is a mega draw in certain roles, Harley Quinn being one of them for sure

[excel1]

seems to have stabilized?

 

an 80%ish or more score would have had me saying $150m, but I cant see how this drops below $100m ow

[WorkingonaName]

1 hour ago, OncomingStorm93 said:

 

 

How big of a draw is Gaga, really? She’s a decade past peak popularity. A Star Is Born was 6 years ago, her last album was 4 years ago, and it’s not like she made House of Gucci a hit, and she was the top-billed star.

She literally has the biggest song on earth right now.

[WorkingonaName]

1 hour ago, lorddemaxus said:

It really doesn’t lol. Joker would’ve probably resonated with people today as much as it did in 2019.

Think it resonates more honestly, Joker was ahead of its time if anything. 

[Reddroast]

IGN gave this a 5.

 

If they give it lower then a 7 that's a red flag for how the nerds will react

[James]

Gaga has 2 movies under her belt so far and both of them were hits. Yes, even HoG, given how much it made especially under the circumstances.

[Firepower]

21 minutes ago, Reddroast said:

IGN gave this a 5.

 

If they give it lower then a 7 that's a red flag for how the nerds will react

Ehhh, in this particular case it doesn't mean anything, this reviewer is a snob if you look at his other reviews, he usually dislikes mainstream stuff and much more into arthouse and indie. I remember IGN audience raged about his reviews on other comic book stuff because he trashed all of them, no idea why IGN hired the guy who's not into content of their target audience.

[joselowe]

4 minutes ago, James said:

Gaga has 2 movies under her belt so far and both of them were hits. Yes, even HoG, given how much it made especially under the circumstances.

You mean two hit films. The others werent so great. 

 

 

[TheDarkKnightOfSteel]

Be real. Gaga is still relevant. She ended all the pop girls with just a song. 

[Mad Max007]

 

[Avatree]

i love lady gaga but what the heck is with the House of Pigeons stans on here claiming it was a success????????

 

it performed poorly at the box office and was received poorly by both audiences and critics

 

 

 

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[vale9001]

Pop stars sell (in some kinda of way actors too or Brad Pitt and tom Hans shouldn't have flops but they have them) the right projects for them.

 

A star is Born is a project made for a kinda of performer like lady Gaga. At some point apparently Eastwood was attached to the project with Di Caprio and Beyoncé to star. And Adele too. 

I don't know how far or less but they both have the star Power to sell a project like that as Gaga did and were right for the kinda of role.

 

Exactly like Whitney Houston sold a romantic drama about a Singer etc . Etc . But other movies weren't definitely that big.

 

Joker as musical and as a movie  with a kinda of extravanga style characters seems a perfect project She can sells. 

 

Ariana grande wouldn't sell a movie like this but feels right for Wicked. Taylor Swift wouldn't sell a movie like this but probably would be good for a musical movie about a typically Singer songwriter artist ala Carole king etc..

 

different kinda of performers. 

[lorddemaxus]

32 minutes ago, Reddroast said:

IGN gave this a 5.

 

If they give it lower then a 7 that's a red flag for how the nerds will react

It wasn’t reviewed by one of IGN’s in-house people. The reviewer wasn’t a fan of the first film either 

[Mad Max007]

It's not 50s/60s where having pop stars would increase the box office. Argylle had Dua Lipa look how it did! And Taylor in Amsterdam lol.