You’ll Be Able to Watch Joker 2 at Home Before Halloween

One of the biggest surprises astatine the movies this twelvemonth was the nonaccomplishment of Joker: Folie à Deux. Seeing arsenic however it was the sequel to 2019’s Oscar-winning, billion-dollar record-breaker, anticipation was precocious for Joaquin Phoenix instrumentality to the DC relation and beryllium joined by Lady Gaga arsenic Harley Quinn. For a fig of reasons though, the movie hugely underperformed, grossing less than $60 cardinal domestically against a reported fund of astir $200 million.

Numbers similar that pb america to judge most radical didn’t spell spot Joker 2—and, well, now’s your accidental to ticker it without leaving your couch. Warner Bros. conscionable announced its location merchandise plans for the movie and they footwear disconnected October 29 with the integer merchandise and video connected demand. It’ll beryllium disposable astatine each the large places: Apple, Amazon, Fandango, etc.

The integer merchandise volition beryllium followed by its DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K merchandise connected December 17. All of which (minus the DVD) stock the aforesaid peculiar features, described arsenic follows by the property release:

Everything Must Go (4 Part Longform Documentary)

• Can I Have A Cigarette?
• Finding Lee
• A Hundred Films In One
• King of Nothing

Then 4 much featurettes not portion of that documentary:

• The Character Of Music
• Live! With The Joker
• Colors Of Madness
• Crafted With Class

Let’s beryllium honorable here. Joker: Folie à Deux isn’t great. If it was great, it would person been astatine slightest a mean deed astatine the container office. But atrocious buzz, followed by atrocious reviews, killed it. (To illustrate, the archetypal movie has a 68% from critics and 89% from fans connected Rotten Tomatoes, portion the sequel has 32% from some critics and fans). But it’s inactive a sequel to Joker, and 1 that’s intelligibly divisive, truthful you person to ideate erstwhile it comes home, radical volition beryllium funny and cheque it out.

But, maybe, they won’t beryllium “pay to ain it digitally oregon connected disc” curious. If that’s the case, you’re talking astir streaming. And portion determination isn’t quality astir erstwhile the movie volition amusement up connected Max, we’re making the educated conjecture it’ll beryllium sometime earlier the extremity of the year.

Directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie à Deux was co-written with Scott Silver, based connected characters from DC. The movie was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Joseph Garner. Lady Gaga served arsenic euphony advisor and the enforcement producers were Michael E. Uslan, Georgia Kacandes, Scott Silver, Mark Friedberg, and Jason Ruder.

So did you spot Joker 2 successful theaters? If not, are you going to wage to ticker it astatine location oregon volition you hold for streaming?

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