‘Joker’ Set To Bank Near Half-Billion In Profit, On Par With ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: The Breakdown

Jennifer Lopez has proved she really can make anything look like the epitome of fashion. The 50-year-old was spotted on the set of her new film, Marry Me, on the streets of New York this week. She switched the whole thing up as she headed out in a fluffy white dressing gown, on top of a white shirt and matching white trousers. The Jenny From The Block singer clutched a sparkly cup for the outing, completing the look with comfortable-looking brown slippers. And we have absolutely never wanted to wear an outfit more. Seriously, how does J Lo manage to make a fluffy robe look like it landed straight off the nearest catwalk?
Joker‘s profit is also not that far from Black Panther‘s $476.8M, and way ahead of Aquaman‘s $260.5M (which at combined budget and P&A of $348M was 83% more expensive than Joker), Venom’s near $247M and Deadpool 2’s $235.4M.
Global theatrical rentals for Joker are figured at $421M. With the DC brand having stumbled after Justice League, Joker continues to show the Burbank, CA lot’s resilience with its feature comic book brand after Aquaman, their highest-grossing DC title ever at $1.15 billion, as well as its glass-ceiling crasher Wonder Woman ($821.8M, another film that Joker is besting in black, after she lassoed a profit of $252.9M).
Joker is expected to be at $825M in worldwide box office at the end of its fourth weekend, while in its fourth weekend here in North America, the pic is expected to lead a sleepy Halloween frame with $19M-$20M for No. 1, off 33% from a week ago, for a running domestic total near $279M. It faces three wide openers this weekend: 101 Studios’ The Current War: Director’s Cut (estimated $3.5M), STX’s horror-thriller Countdown ($6M), and Screen Gems’ Black and Blue ($6M-$10M).
Joker, given its oppressive society tone, isn’t expected to get a release in mainland China, meaning all of the pic’s offshore territories have been released. Production costs after New York City tax credits were $70M (though some say it’s lower in the $60Ms, we heard it’s higher) and global P&A is at $120M. This is Warner Bros, and there’s no way that they’d underspend on an anticipated awards-season blockbuster it launched with a Venice Film Festival premiere, followed by plays at the Toronto and New York film festivals. (Warners is estimated to have spent $110M alone in global P&A on A Star Is Born last year.) Joker, meanwhile, is putting a few pics this autumn out of business, i.e., Gemini Man, and cutting into the ticket sales of others.