Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Crime, Drama, Musical
46Kernel Score — Mixed or Average, 64 reviews
The Kernel take
The original Joker returned ~6× its combined spend; this sequel (46, well below the original's 59) needed $450M just to break even and topped out around $207.5M — a direct, real-dollar demonstration of what a worse score can cost.
Director track record: Todd Phillips
Folie à Deux (46) is Todd Phillips' lowest-scored film to date — below even his early-2000s studio comedies — breaking a run where each of his last three films had scored higher than the one before.
Box office
Budget $200M · Marketing $100M · Box office $207.5M
A -81.4% second-weekend drop — one of the steepest of any wide release in this dataset — following a D CinemaScore is about as unambiguous a signal as box office data gets.