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Joker drastically winding down, but what a result.

$87M away from matching Aquaman

$20.3M away from matching The Dark Knight Rises

$55.7M above The Dark Knight

$187M above Batman v Superman

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As of Day 80 (12/22), Joker is now all of $18.1M from matching The Dark Knight Rises.

That is some crazy results! 

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Joker Director Todd Phillips Says DC's Walter Hamada "Didn't Get It"

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During an interview with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, Joker director Todd Phillips said that the movie may have benefited from a management shake-up at Warner Bros., since then-recent changes to the hierarchy at DC Entertainment meant that he was able to make the movie even though Walter Hamada, the man Warner had put in charge of the DC brand, didn't understand what they were trying to do. Speaking on an episode of Moore's new Rumble With Michael Moore podcast, Phillips explained that part of why he tried to get Joker made when he did was some advice that the goodwill he had built up with a decade of big hits at the studio had an "expiration date" since regimes change so often at Hollywood studios.

 

The tumult at Warner in recent years proved that to be good advice, and between when he started writing the Joker screenplay and when they were ready to take meetings with the people at Warner Bros. and DC who had the final say, things had changed around again. And while some of the Warner changes hurt his odds of getting the film made, Phillips thinks that it's possible the changes at DC helped grease the rails for him.

 

"When the regime changed on the Warner side, the regime also changed on the DC side," Phillips told Moore. "They put a guy in charge at DC, Walter Hamada, who had been running a small horror label at New Line. So he didn't have muscle to stop it, and I'm not saying he would have, but he didn't get it. And because On paper, it's crazy. [He] just stepped into this new job, and 'we just made Shazam! and Wonder Woman. We're doing okay; do we really want to mess with the formula?' And so I really understood his point. But in some ways, I had enough weight behind me at that point — not to overrule it, because they could have easily said no...but we just kept our foot on the gas, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease as you say. We just made a thing of it for a long time. Truth be told, the budget was so small — and I say so small in relation to other comic book films, not small. We ultimately made the movie for $60 million, but at Warner Bros. or at DC, that's like an independent film to them. So we kept it so under the radar and so small that in some way, it felt like...not a can't-lose, but like, 'okay what could we really lose on this if it’s a disaster and nobody wants to see it, if it’s boring?' So they let us go and do it."

Looks like:

- This landed as a production right when Walter Hamada was establishing himself

- Hamada didn't see the purpose or vision because it deviated from the new Worlds of DC direction

- The budget was $60M prior to any tax rebates, so $55M not so unbelievable (bulk of filming was done in New York, which offers a 30% NYC tax incentive on all qualifying costs)

Now I wonder if Phillips is having to negotiate with Hamada in a stronger position for both men. Which could be interesting what this leads to.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Bosco685

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We're now in the thick of awards season, with the majority of the different critics associations and organizations around the country having already released the list of nominations for their annual awards. The Golden Globes have been the most notable so far, and all eyes are looking ahead to the prestigious Academy Award nominations, which will be announced next month. Earlier this week, the Music City Film Critics' Association, comprised of critics based in Nashville, TN, recognized the best that the film industry had to offer in 2019 by announcing its full list of nominations.

 

Like with many other organizations over the past few weeks, the MCFCA has nominated Todd Phillips' Joker for multiple awards. It has four nominations in all, including Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and Best Picture. Avengers: Endgame also managed to land nominations for Best Acting Ensemble and Best Action Film. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood led all films with nine total nominations.

 

BEST PICTURE
1917
APOLLO 11
JOJO RABBIT
JOKER
KNIVES OUT
LITTLE WOMEN
MARRIAGE STORY
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
PARASITE
THE IRISHMAN

 

BEST ACTOR
Eddie Murphy – DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Joaquin Phoenix – JOKER
Adam Driver – MARRIAGE STORY
Taron Edgerton – ROCKETMAN
Adam Sandler – UNCUT GEMS

 

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
AVENGERS: ENDGAME
KNIVES OUT
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
PARASITE
THE IRISHMAN

 

BEST SCORE
1917
JOKER
MARRIAGE STORY
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
US

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917
JOKER
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
PARASITE
THE LIGHTHOUSE

 

BEST ACTION FILM
AVENGERS: ENDGAME
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

Wouldn't that be a nice way to end 2019 with two comic book films taking all categories?  

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JOKER Screenplay Fully Reveals The Final Fate Of Zazie Beetz's Sophie Dumond

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Joker never revealed what happened to Sophie Dumond after Arthur Fleck stormed out of her apartment and while director Todd Phillips has confirmed that the psychopath didn't kill her, speculation has continued to run rampant about her fate at the hands of the Clown Prince of Crime. 

Well, thanks to the officially released screenplay for the DC Comics adaptation, we now have a much better idea of what became of Sophie and, as promised, she is indeed still alive. 
 

"From the kitchen in Penny’s apartment, Arthur scribbles a misspelled note: '…on Murray Franklin Tonight -- Pleese Watch!' Arthur stuffs the note inside an envelope addressed to 'Sofi.' In the hallway, we follow Arthur 'heading for Sophie’s apartment, his dyed green hair now slicked back.'

 

"STILL FROM BEHIND, he lays the envelope in front of Sophie's door, then pulls something else out of his pocket -- his body obscuring what it is -- puts it down by her door and leaves. As he walks away down the hallway, we see what else Arthur left behind -- HIS MAGIC WAND OF FLOWERS, at Sophie's door."

 

It turns out that Sophie pays attention to Arthur's message and does indeed watch the show. However, she's clearly shocked by what happens next after "Joker" guns down Franklin Murray.
 

"Sophie screams and jumps to her feet horrified! Waking up GiGi who starts to cry when she sees what's on television--ANGLE ON TELEVISION, Joker gets up and walks right up to the camera. Blood sprayed over his white painted face. Hear the studio audience still screaming, bedlam all around him."

 

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Martin Scorsese is Hollywood royalty. The man has directed some of the most well regarded and important films in the history of cinema. With the release of 2019's THE IRISHMAN, Scorsese once again proved that he's a force to be reckoned with. The gangster epic starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino is sure to garner a ton of Oscar nominations very shortly. It seems a foregone conclusion that one of those nominations will be for Martin Scorsese himself in the director category.

 

The seventy-seven year old director has also made no secret of his distaste for comicbook films. Scorsese kicked off a maelstrom of debate earlier this year when he likened Marvel movies to amusement parks. Yet despite his opinions regarding Marvel movies and the like, Scorsese almost produced one of the more significant comicbook films of 2019 - JOKER. Due to time constraints Martin Scorsese had to bow out leaving the producing duties to director Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff. JOKER did just fine without Scorsese's involvement, earning over a $1 billion at the box office and garnering a ton of critical acclaim including the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award.

 

There's no question that Scorsese's works heavily influenced JOKER. Both TAXI DRIVER and THE KING OF COMEDY cast long shadows in Todd Phillips' JOKER. Although the film carries a certain Scorsese flair to it, the Academy Award winning director had yet to comment on the movie - until now. A frequent staple in the New York Times, Martin Scorsese once again recently talked to the prominent paper about everything from mortality to women in film. When asked if he'd seen JOKER, Scorsese's response was certainly candid.

 

“I saw clips of it. I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”

He's the Howard Stern of comic book film reviews. Everyone takes a turn at the wheel.

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The 77th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2019, will be broadcast live from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on January 5, 2020, by NBC.

Here's one thing to remember about the Golden Globes: It only has 87 voters, or slightly more than 1% as many as the Oscars do. And those 87 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bring with them a variety of competing agendas, which makes predicting what they'll do maddening at times .

Editorial: Given the foreign love for Joker, Phoenix seems like a shoo-in but wouldn't be shocked if Joker took the top prize.

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[Ken Aldred]

Congrats to Joaquin for a very, very well-deserved win for Best Actor at the Golden Globes.

Edited January 6, 2020 by Ken Aldred

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I guess he has learned empathy for sure.

 

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What a different type of guy.

 

 

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On 1/5/2020 at 7:21 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

What’s sick is that she already is a top 5 actress already...what exactly is she gonna get better at?

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Listened to Todd Philips on "Fresh Air" this week.  He reiterated multiple times that the events of the film aren't meant to be taken literally, that EVERYTHING is just the way the Joker chooses to tell it this once.  He again quoted that panel from Killing Joke talking about how if he has to have a past, he prefers it to be multiple choice...he pointed out how he called the film "Joker" as opposed to "The Joker," meaning it's not even necessarily the Joker from Batman...and he pointed out that in the promotional materials that refer to the film as an origin story, he made sure it was described as "an" origin story, not "the" origin story to imply that since we're seeing this from the point of view of Joker, who knows what or what isn't true that's shown on screen.

So there's no point in sweating how events are shown on screen since Joker is just telling the story he wants to tell.  The whole idea of Thomas Wayne being his dad or punching him in the face is just as likely to be his own invention as everything else explicitly illustrated to be falsely narrated in the film.

Edited January 7, 2020 by fantastic_four

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 “Joker,” the acclaimed film that tells the back story of the comic book villain, received 11 nominations on Tuesday for the EE British Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, the most of any film.

 

One of those was in the best film category of the awards, commonly known as the Baftas, where it will compete against Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and Sam Mendes’s “1917,” a World War I epic that won best drama at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.

 

The directors of all those movies will also compete for the best director prize.

 

As in the United States, “Joker” received rave reviews in Britain when it was released, but also received criticism for its depiction of mental illness and violence. Another flap centered on the movie’s soundtrack, which included a song by Gary Glitter, a British singer and convicted child abuser.

 

Joaquin Phoenix, who played the title role in “Joker,” has been nominated for the Bafta’s best actor award, a prize he also won at the Golden Globes on Sunday, and is favorite to take at the Oscars.