Thursday’s FOLIE À DEUX previews are nearly 50% below JOKER’s; Receives a half star rating from the audience

The preview numbers for Thursday evening are available Joker: Folie à Deux and the latest DC film only grossed $7 million. It is worth noting that the number also includes whatever joker Sequel picked up from early showings across North America on Monday.

That’s a far cry from the 2019 film, which grossed $13.3 million on Thursday alone; From there, it grossed a record-breaking $96.2 million in its opening weekend.

Tracking is everywhere Joker: Folie à Deuxbut a $50 million debut is a best-case scenario at this point (it’s currently expected to land somewhere between $48 million and $53 million).

What makes matters worse is the PostTrak score; We talk a lot about CinemaScore here, but it’s an exit survey service that tracks audience demographics and the aspects of each title that drive interest and viewership.

Although not well known, it is an important tool used by studios and box office analysts Joker: Folie à Deux received half a star and only 40% positive results. This is similar to last weekend Megalopolis And most worryingly, only 24% of respondents would definitely recommend the film to their friends.

That comes after Joker: Folie à Deux dropped to 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.

It feels a bit like watching a car crash in real time, and Warner Bros. Discovery has to figure out what went wrong. The biggest question is: How is it that the sequel to an Oscar-winning film (Best Actor, Best Original Score) that grossed over $1 billion did so poorly critically and commercially?