The celebrated film adaptation of Todd Phillips with Joaquin Phoenix overcomes the barrier of one billion collections worldwide.
Joker, the new DC and Warner Bros. origins movie about Prince Clown of Crime by director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix, continues to break records; and it is that after becoming the first highest-grossing R-rated film in history, it has now just exceeded 1,000 million dollars in global collection, becoming in turn the first film for adult audiences to overcome this barrier. A great success for this new independent adaptation within the Extended Universe of DC; Or not so independent?
The most cost effective comic adaptation
And it is that recently, both its director and its leading actor, admitted that if the right circumstances occur, they would be delighted to do the sequel: “I will tell you one thing: I would do anything with Joaquin Phoenix any day of the week. There's no one like him. If he were willing and if people went to see the first one and Warner came and said 'You know what? If you can think of something … 'Well, I think he and I could think of something pretty cool,' says the filmmaker.
On the other hand, and with the arrival of the new Batman universe by Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson, there are many who speculate that Joaquin Phoenix will be the Dark Knight's antagonist in the future, although from Warner Bros. they insist that it will not be so.
Be that as it may, Joker is the first film outside of Disney to exceed $ 1 billion this 2019; on the other hand, it is already the adaptation of a more profitable comic book in history, since with just a budget of about 60 million dollars, a box office exceeding 1,000 million has been achieved.
All in all, Joker is already the fourth highest-grossing DC and Warner Bros. movie ever beating Batman v Superman ($ 873 million) and only behind Aquaman ($ 1,147 million), The Dark Knight: The Legend reborn (1,084 million dollars) and The Dark Knight (1,003 million dollars).
Source | Forbes
