It was a good news/bad news day for Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips’ Joker. The bad news is that the Warner Bros. release dipped below $1 million in daily grosses for the first time, earning $905,000 (-48% from last Tuesday) on day 38. The good news is that the DC Films flick topped the domestic gross of Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok ($315 million in 2017) with a new $315.736 million domestic cume. Presuming its 31.8%/68.2% domestic/overseas split remains intact, the film has earned around $992 million worldwide and should pass $1 billion on Friday night. If that happens, then Joker will have passed $1 billion worldwide on the two-year anniversary of the overseas debut of Justice League. That doesn’t mean a damn thing, but the cosmic coincidence amuses me.
It fell below $1 million on day 38. That puts it behind Avengers: Endgame (39 days), The Dark Knight, The Jungle Book and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (41 days), Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Spider-Man and Jurassic World (46 days), Wonder Woman (47 days), Black Panther, Frozen and The Avengers (53 days), Jurassic Park and Shrek (55 days), Phantom Menace (61 days), Avatar (81 days) and Titanic (102 days). It held longer than Aquaman, Age of Ultron and The Last Jedi (34 days) along with Rogue One (35 days) and The Greatest Showman (36 days despite a $2.4 million opening day). It has earned 3.4x its $92.6 million opening weekend, leggier than any MCU movie, for now, except Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy.