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JOKER: THE MOVIE produced by Martin Scorsese (TBD)
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Joker is now the biggest movie never to play in China, as Doctor Sleep, Last Christmas and Midway take discomforting drops on Friday.

 

In holdover news, Lionsgate’s Midway earned $2.5 million (-61%) on Friday, setting the stage for a likely $8.6 million (-53%) weekend and $34.99 million ten-day cume. That’s not a good hold, which is at least partially due to Ford v Ferrari stealing away the older male demographics, but Lionsgate was only on the hook for domestic and UK distribution and related marketing costs. A $50 million domestic finish will be squarely okay for the studio. Paramount’s Playing With Fire, which I may try to see with the kids later today, earned another $1.9 million (-47%) for a likely $7.67 million (-40%) second weekend and $24.618 million ten-day cume. The Jon Cena kid-targeted flick cost $30 million, so this one will need decent overseas numbers to justify itself.

 

Last Christmas earned another $2 million (-51%) on its second Friday, as the disappointing holiday romcom will likely earn just $6.6 million (-42%) in its second weekend for a $22.5 million ten-day cume. That sets up Paul Feig and Emma Thompson’s Emilia Clarke/Henry Golding flick for a final domestic total of just-under $40 million. Unless it pulls Love Actually or In Time number overseas, it’s a whiff. Warner Bros.’ Doctor Sleep crashed in weekend two, earning $1.685 million (-68%) on Friday for a likely $5.77 million (-59%) second weekend. That’ll give Mike Flanagan’s $45 million horror flick a $24.628 million ten-day total and a likely domestic finish of over/under $37 million. Audiences didn’t care about a sequel to The Shining. Once again, IP proved to be a repellent.

 

Warner Bros. Joker, on the other hand, earned another $1.475 million (-42%) to bring its domestic cume up to $318.44 million. That puts it above the raw domestic grosses of The Fellowship of the Ring ($313 million in 2001), Thor: Ragnarok ($315 million in 2017) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($317 million in 2001) and Iron Man ($318 million in 2008). It positions the film for a $5.2 million (44%) weekend and $322 million domestic cume. It crossed $1 billion worldwide on Friday and, with a new global cume just over the $1.004 billion gross of The Dark Knight (back in 2008), Joker is now the biggest global grosser, sans inflation, to never play in China. It should be at over/under $1.015 billion worldwide by tomorrow night.

 

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More festival awards.

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Joker lenser Lawrence Sher scooped the top prize this weekend at Camerimage, the Polish film festival dedicated to the art of cinematography.

 

Sher picked up the Golden Frog for his work on the Todd Philips-directed pic, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain and has been heavily tipped to be a major contender this coming awards season. It has grossed more than $1bn globally. The film also won the audience award at the Polish festival.

 

Elswhere at Camerimage, DoP César Charlone picked up the Silver Frog prize for his work on Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, while Vladimír Smutný got the Bronze Frog for Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird.

 

 

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