Ledger earned a well-deserved Oscar for playing Joker a decade ago; Phoenix deserves the same, with Joker itself I think a strong contender for Best Picture and Best Director, too. If the alternate-universe X-Men film Logan was the first comic book film that was also a piece of cinematic art, Joker is the second. Ledger is the only actor to receive an Academy Award for his portrayal of the Joker, which was awarded shortly after his death at the age of 28. Director Christopher Nolan has said that Ledger's striking performance came from his strong interest in the character. ‘Joker’ Opens Strong at Box Office, Despite Controversy The supervillain story has been the subject of intense debate. That didn’t stop it from bringing in about $93.5 million at domestic. ‘Joker’ Posts Strong $55 Million Box Office Weekend While ‘Gemini Man’ Struggles. The Joker develops a very sick and demented sense of humor towards the film's culmination, and as such, some of his actions and statements can be extremely off-putting for some viewers. Edit Some scenes of violence are unexpected and can be shocking.

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Posted on Friday, August 23rd, 2019 by Chris Evangelista

It had been assumed that Todd Phillips‘ Joker would end up with an R rating, and now it’s official: the MPAA has given the Joaquin Phoenix anti-comic book flick the very adult rating. That’s right: this movie is so damn twisted that only adults will be able to handle it. According to the R rating, Joker is going to deliver “strong bloody violence” and more. Hide the kids!

What caused the Joker R rating? The following: “Strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language, and brief sexual images.” That certainly fits with the way the film is being sold – not as just another comic book movie, but rather a dark, Martin Scorsese-inspired character study aimed at adult audiences. And if you need a better idea of how twisted the Joker movie is, just take a gander at this excerpt from the script.

Larry is a well-meaning family man and professor of physics in a suburban Jewish enclave in Minnesota, who in short order: is told by his wife (Sari Lennick) that she wants to divorce him to marry another man; is offered a bribe by a Korean student who is failing his class; and is told by the head of his department that he is being anonymously slandered to the tenure committee. .

Wow! This ain’t your granddaddy’s Joker! In all seriousness, I’m incredibly curious to see how the hell this turns out. While I’m tempering my expectations simply because I’m not the biggest Todd Phillips fan, I am excited to see what Joaquin Phoenix does here. Phoenix is a phenomenal actor, and even if the rest of Joker is somehow a disaster, I’m 100% confident that he’ll turn in a great performance.

One thing is for sure: Warner Bros. has a lot of faith in the film. Not only are they clearly aiming for awards season recognition with an October release date, they’re also debuting the film at several film festivals. It’ll premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of this month, and next month it’ll play at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.

The official TIFF page for Joker offers up insight into how the movie is being viewed by some:

Shocking in its originality and intensity, Joker is a game changer for so-called comic book movies. Showcasing a fully immersed performance from Joaquin Phoenix and a new vision of world building, Todd Phillips’ latest is an unsettling, exciting portrait of the villain we thought we knew.

Part of the pleasure of watching Joker stems from its technical brilliance. Its production design and cinematography capture the supersaturated grit of a rotting Gotham. Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver course quite recognizably through the film’s veins. And Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score contributes to the feverish effect. This movie is proof that even the most familiar can begin anew.

Joker and its strong bloody violence hits theaters October 4.

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• „Joker“ won the domestic box office for a second-straight weekend.
• It brought in an estimated $55 million, the best week two performance ever by a movie released in October.
• „Gemini Man“ came in third place, earning only $20.5 million.
• The movie’s budget was $138 million.
• Neon’s „Parasite“ brought in $376,264 on three screens and had a per-screen average of $125,421, the best average of any movie this year.

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Warner Bros. has got something special with „Joker.“ The super serious (and ultra violent) origin story of DC Comics‘ greatest villain continues to put up record-breaking numbers for October.

After having the biggest opening weekend for the month last weekend, in its second go around „Joker“ brought in an estimated $55 million. That’s just a measly 43% drop from last weekend and an October record for best week two performance, topping the studio’s release of „Gravity“ ($43.1 million) in 2013.

Budgeted around $55 million (north of $60 million when you count marketing), „Joker“ now has a global cume to date of over $540 million. WB is raking in the money!

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But while Warner Bros. soaks in the fruits of its labor, across town Paramount is in full crisis mode with „Gemini Man.“

Will Smith’s latest movie, which showcased technological feats rarely seen in theaters, was supposed to be a worthy adversary to „Joker,“ but the Ang Lee movie didn’t put up much of a fight.

„Gemini Man“ came in third place (United Artists‘ „The Addams Family“ came in second with $30.2 million) only bringing in $20.5 million this weekend. That’s below its industry projections and setting the stage for Paramount and the other companies that shared the financial burden (Skydance Media, Fosun Pictures, and Alibaba) to potentially lose millions as the movie cost $138 million to make.

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Whether it was its tired story, which had been floating around in development for almost 20 years, or the decision by Lee to shoot it in the high frame rate of 120 frame per second, which gives the picture a sharpness audiences aren’t huge fans of yet (it’s so advanced no theater in the US could show it the way Lee intended), nothing worked for „Gemini Man.“

Now Paramount, whose biggest earner in 2019 is the Elton John biopic „Rocketman“ with over $195 million earned worldwide, will put its hopes in „Terminator: Dark Fate“ (opening November 1) providing a lift for the studio to close out the year.

Meanwhile on the arthouse side, Neon’s „Parasite“ showed that the hype is real for the latest movie by Bong Joon-Ho („Snowpiercer,“ „Okja“). Playing in only three theaters this weekend, it brought in $376,264 and had a per-screen average of $125,421. That’s the best screen average of any movie this year. It’s also the highest per-screen average since 2016’s „La La Land.“