You may Be Capable of Watch Joker 2 at Residence Earlier than Halloween

One of many largest surprises on the films this 12 months was the failure of Joker: Folie à Deux. Seeing as the way it was the sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning, billion-dollar record-breaker, anticipation was excessive for Joaquin Phoenix return to the DC position and be joined by Woman Gaga as Harley Quinn. For a number of reasons though, the movie vastly underperformed, grossing fewer than $60 million domestically towards a reported funds of about $200 million.

Numbers like that lead us to imagine most people didn’t go see Joker 2—and, nicely, now’s your likelihood to observe it with out leaving your sofa. Warner Bros. simply introduced its dwelling launch plans for the movie and so they kick off October 29 with the digital launch and video on demand. It’ll be obtainable in any respect the massive locations: Apple, Amazon, Fandango, and so forth.

The digital launch will probably be adopted by its DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K launch on December 17. All of which (minus the DVD) share the identical particular options, described as follows by the press launch:

Every thing Should Go (4 Half Longform Documentary)

• Can I Have A Cigarette?
• Discovering Lee
• A Hundred Movies In One
• King of Nothing

Then 4 extra featurettes not a part of that documentary:

• The Character Of Music
• Reside! With The Joker
• Colours Of Insanity
• Crafted With Class

Let’s be sincere right here. Joker: Folie à Deux isn’t great. If it was nice, it could have been not less than a average hit on the field workplace. However dangerous buzz, adopted by dangerous critiques, killed it. (As an example, the unique movie has a 68% from critics and 89% from followers on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the sequel has 32% from each critics and followers). However it’s nonetheless a sequel to Joker, and one which’s clearly divisive, so it’s important to think about as soon as it comes dwelling, folks will probably be curious and test it out.

However, perhaps, they gained’t be “pay to personal it digitally or on disc” curious. If that’s the case, you’re speaking about streaming. And whereas there isn’t information about when the movie will present up on Max, we’re making the educated guess it’ll be someday earlier than the top of the 12 months.

Directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie à Deux was co-written with Scott Silver, primarily based on characters from DC. The movie was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Joseph Garner. Woman Gaga served as music marketing consultant and the chief producers have been Michael E. Uslan, Georgia Kacandes, Scott Silver, Mark Friedberg, and Jason Ruder.

So did you see Joker 2 in theaters? If not, are you going to pay to observe it at dwelling or will you look ahead to streaming?

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