Current Events > Joker is now the most profitable movie based on a comic ever.

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https://bit.ly/33sFJZq

Forbes link can't post the whole url.

With $304.2 million in North America after five weeks in theaters, Jokers new global cume is around $953 million. Presuming its 32% domestic/68% overseas split holds, then it will have a new global cume of around $957 million by tonight. That will be 15.3x its $62.5 million production budget, which will make the Todd Phillips-directed and Joaquin Phoenix-starring drama more profitable, in terms of budget versus global gross, than Jim Carreys The Mask ($351 million on a $23 million budget in 1994). The most profitable big comic book movies are Venom ($854 million on a $90 million budget), Batman ($411 million/$35 million), Deadpool ($783 million/$58 million), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ($200 million/$13.5 million), The Mask ($351 million/$23 million) and now Joker ($956 million/$62.5 million).

That means DC Films and Warner Bros. Joker is the most profitable comic book movie of all time. In a skewed way, Joker represents every studios dream, in that its a mid-budget, 2-D title thats pulling top-tier blockbuster business without relying on China. That it happens to be an R-rated psychological drama is a bonus of sorts, as its the third-cheapest $900 million grosser of all time after Bohemian Rhapsody ($905 million on a $52 million budget) and The Lion King ($968 million on a $55 million budget in 1994). When it tops $1 billion worldwide in the next week or so, itll be the cheapest movie to do so, with a budget just under the $63 million spent by Jurassic Park back in 1993.

Up until last December, we hadnt seen a $1 billion grosser not from Disney or Universal since Paramounts Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014. Weve had two newbies in the last year, both comic book movies with huge boosts in China. But unlike Warner Bros. Aquaman ($1.148 billion worldwide with $298 million in China) and Spider-Man: Far from Home ($1.131 billion with $199 million in China), Joker will earn its $1 billion-plus gross without a 3-D boost and without China. When it passes The Dark Knight ($1.004 billion worldwide in 2008), itll be the biggest-grossing movie ever to not play in China). Yes, thats assuming it doesnt eventually get a Chinese play date. But without China, it should still flirt with a global cume over/under Aladdin ($1.0506 billion).

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Itll have around $312 million domestic by the end of Sunday night, with a domestic cume still likely to end up just over/under Guardians of the Galaxy ($333 million in 2014), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($334 million in 2017), Aquaman ($335 million in 2018) and Spider-Man 3 ($336 million in 2007). Itll outgross Suicide Squad ($325 million in 2016) and sell more tickets than Man of Steel ($291 million in 2013/$322 million adjusted-for-inflation) by the end. If it passes Aquaman, Joker will be DC Comics fourth-biggest domestic grosser (behind Wonder Woman, The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight) and (presuming a global total between $1.004 billion and $1.081 billion) their third-biggest global cume behind The Dark Knight Rises ($1.081 billion in 2012) and Aquaman.

Its possible that continued Oscar season legs could push its global total past Toy Story 4 ($1.072 billion), but thats a big if. The film will surely be Warner Bros. big Oscar flick. On one hand, its success, as a comic book movie about a tormented white dude who is victimized by society to the point of villainy may rub folks the wrong way. On the other hand, its a monumental success despite being an old school movie. For that matter, its over/under $500 million in profits make it a distinctly old-fashioned tentpole, providing Warner Bros. financial cover for the deluge of underperforming studio programmers (Blinded by the Light, The Kitchen, The Sun is Also A Star, The Goldfinch, Motherless Brooklyn, possibly The Good Liar and Just Mercy).

Its also almost certain to be the only Oscar season release to qualify as a genuine blockbuster, unless (offhand) 1917, Ford v Ferrari, Little Women or A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood pulls a miracle. It could end up a major contender (think Bohemian Rhapsody), or it could just end up with a single nod for Joaquin Phoenix. I imagine Warner Media will take the $1 billion global gross over the Oscar glory. Its the seventh-biggest global grosser of the year, sitting behind six movies that are all Disney and/or Marvel (Sonys Spider-Man: Far from Home) releases. Universals Hobbs & Shaw ($758 million worldwide)and (presumably) Sonys Jumanji: The Next Level will battle it out for the title of the years biggest non-Disney/non-comic book grosser.

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CE pls

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More incel movies coming

will I receive any of these monies?

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R1masher posted...

will I receive any of these monies?

The real monies are the friends we made along the way

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Pls

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Who cares? None of us are investors.
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Wasn't there some CEman going on about how this film was trash and going to be a huge flop because he read the script?

jeffhardyb0yz posted...

ToPoPO posted...

Wasn't there some CEman going on about how this film was trash and going to be a huge flop because he read the script?

Hey

yo what the fuck!

I remember reading an article that said the filmmakers were intentionally given a low budget so that the movie would fail.
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This is pretty insane considering Endgame made around $2.8 billion. Means Endgame had to make nearly $2 billion to make a profit.

How is that correct? Wasn't the combined production budget for IW and Endgame around $1 billion? Was Endgame's advertising budget around $1 billion?

Also, Joker has made this much while being R rated and unreleased in China.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXUINRQZqLI
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I'm gonna write some incel screen plays and shit. clearly there's profit catering to losers and people who feel overlooked.

I'ma have a plot to where this socially awkward dude can't get laid, so gets really heavy into PC gaming. then all of the sudden the chicks from back in high school start DMing him because his streams are getting like 5 million views, but his only response to them is sending them a picture of his hot model girlfriend who dressed as dark elf at Comic Con that year.

and she's gonna have boobs! big boobs!

her cups will runneth over, but she's only interested in quenching her man's thirst. no cuck stuff here, soyboys!
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

and she's gonna have boobs! big boobs!

I'm in
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TommyG663513 posted...

This is pretty insane considering Endgame made around $2.8 billion. Means Endgame had to make nearly $2 billion to make a profit.

How is that correct? Wasn't the combined production budget for IW and Endgame around $1 billion? Was Endgame's advertising budget around $1 billion?

Also, Joker has made this much while being R rated and unreleased in China.

I think it's saying the profit as a percent of the budget, not in absolute terms

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TommyG663513 posted...

This is pretty insane considering Endgame made around $2.8 billion. Means Endgame had to make nearly $2 billion to make a profit.

How is that correct? Wasn't the combined production budget for IW and Endgame around $1 billion? Was Endgame's advertising budget around $1 billion?

Also, Joker has made this much while being R rated and unreleased in China.

It's profit relative to budget. A movie like Endgame is pretty fucking far down the list in that ranking just because the budget is massive. It is, however, the flat out highest grossing R rated movie ever.

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That's funny, considering how much MSM schmucks were trying to sabotage it.

He is so relatable.

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i haven't seen it yet. But i never would have imagined a Joker origin movie starring Juaqin Phoenix to be a juggernaut comic movie, especially after Heath Ledger really set the bar super high for joker and fucking Leto failed (in my humble opinion) miserably.

Phoenix must've really killed it.
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Phoenix did an incredible job. It was really outstanding.

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