Joker 2 Opened Worse Than Morbius At The Box Office
/Film Weekly
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On the October 7, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the weekend’s box office numbers.
In The News:
- Biggest box office stories of the past few weeks (September 17 was the last time we talked about box office on this show)
- 5 Reasons Why Megalopolis Flopped At The Box Office
- The Wild Robot Scores Surprise $35 Million Box Office Debut After Rave Reviews
- This week’s Top 10
- 5 Reasons Why Joker 2 Flopped at the Box Office
- Joker: Folie A Deux Earns The Worst Ever CinemaScore For A Comic Book Movie
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Monday October 7th |
| 0:03.4 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the |
| 0:06.7 | weekends box office numbers my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film |
| 0:10.6 | com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film film |
| 0:13.0 | writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey everyone how's it going. |
| 0:17.2 | All right Ryan it's actually been since September 17th that you and I talked |
| 0:22.0 | about box office on the show if I have my dates correct. |
| 0:25.2 | I was gone for a week and we've had a bunch of interviews and stuff like that running on the show. |
| 0:29.7 | So let's get back into this. |
| 0:31.4 | I guess before we talk about what just happened at the box office this past weekend, I wonder if you can run through maybe some of the highlights, the biggest box office stories of the past few weeks, just to kind of catch me and maybe our listeners up on the stuff in case we aren't paying attention to it as much as you are. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, totally. So, um, so let's first go over just some of the will go through some bullet points over the past couple of |
| 0:56.9 | because I know what everybody's here and they want to hear about today but |
| 0:59.9 | some stuff this happens as we last talked. So let's go back to last weekend. |
| 1:05.0 | The Wild Robot topped the charts with just shy of like 36 million dollars, |
| 1:11.5 | which was a really pleasant surprise for non franchise |
| 1:14.6 | animation and it has continued to do very well a cinema score like it's holding very |
| 1:19.8 | well it crossed a hundred million of the worldwide this weekend, so it's doing very, very well, and I loved, loved, loved the movie personally, so that's great to see. |
| 1:29.0 | One of the other bullet points we should talk about is that Francis Ford Copples |
| 1:34.1 | Megalopolis opened to just four million dollars last weekend. It fell off a cliff |
| 1:38.8 | in this most recent weekend. It is probably not even going to make $10 million domestically, and it is a movie that cost |
| 1:46.2 | 120 million dollars to make. Now that is all self-financed by Francis Ford Coppola so you can't really treat this like the average blockbuster that |
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