Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is on course to become the most profitable comic book film at the box office.
In the five weeks since Joker debuted in theaters, the Joaquin Phoenix film has experienced unpredecendant and record-breaking box office success for an R-rated film. Having already earned the title of highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, Forbes reports Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is now on track to become the most profitable comic book film ever.
With a current worldwide total of approximately $953 million, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will reach a new global gross of $957 million by tonight should its 32% domestic/68% overseas split hold. Produced on a budget of $62.5 million budget, a worldwide total of $957 million would mean Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will have earned 15.3x its production cost. This would make Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker the most profitable comic book film ever in terms of how much it has earned compared to how much it cost to produce.
Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker:
Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham.
Joker is now playing in theaters!
Source: Forbes
