Todd Phillips' Joker: film A Dex has broken another major Hollywood record, but not the good one you want. The box office results of the Phillips sequel show now exceeded this one The miracles for a metric that no one particularly wants to profit from: The worst second-week box office collapse in comic book movie history, with the film's earnings dropping 82 percent from the first week to the second.

We'll do a more in-depth box office analysis once the rubble is cleared on Monday, but it's worth noting that Phillips' film pairs Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck with a version of comic book lead character Harley Quinn, played by Lady Gaga, is not even The most successful murder clown film in cinemas this weekend: More terrible 3 throws out the ever-loving financial shit. film A Dex The film is expected to gross a paltry $6.6 million at the domestic box office, plummeting from its $44 million debut. If you take a look at the list of the biggest second-week drops in film history, you'll see that the film is actually vying for the title of biggest drop of all time: There are films that have dropped further, but many of them were about it were new releases with the appeal of unique nostalgia, and none of them could compete jokerReleased in 4,102 theaters. That is a much of vacant properties, while most films with major losses were in the under 1,000 range.

Many critics who reviewed the film's release noted that focusing too much on box office to the exclusion of everything else is a pretty crappy way to evaluate art. Say what you like about the execution – including an overwhelming consensus that the marketing-shy musical numbers, ideally the point at which Phillips, Phoenix and Gaga could really let loose, were strangely listless – but it's pretty clear that Phillips got the made a film He wanted to do and was not driven by commercial interests. On the other hand, it's also pretty clear that mainstream audiences, who somewhat surprisingly embraced the first film, have rejected this latest effort. What if they held one? joker Movie and no one came? This, as it turns out.

(above THR)