Joker: Folie à Deux
"I’m not plugging the movie. I’m not doing anything. I’m just saying I like it."
"Stupid critics. Gaga so good. Joker so right. Die, dumbbells, die!"
The "Death Stranding" video game creator has also praised fellow 2024 films "Dune: Part Two" and "Furiosa."
Tarantino zigged where Paul Schrader zagged when it came to auteurs weighing in on Phillips' box-office bomb.
Weekend Box Office
Grins for "Smile 2," but "Joker: Folie à Deux" dropped to sixth place with less than $2.2 million in its third week.
Musical Madness
The Oscar-winning "Joker" composer expanded Arthur's inner anguish with a new instrument that functioned like a playable electric fence.
"It’s a really bad musical."
Weekend Box Office
Social media makes 'em and breaks 'em: A low-budget indie is #1 with $18 million while the “Joker” sequel drops a historic 81 percent in its second week.
Costume designer Arianne Phillips talks about tracing the arc of a tragic romance through Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix's clothes.
Director of photography Lawrence Sher took the methodology he used on "Joker" to a whole new level.
Was it really just dismal reviews? Or did fans get the sense this movie wasn't for them?
Instead, Theroux can be seen in the more lucrative (and better reviewed) other Warner Bros. sequel, "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."
