How ‘Joker’ Is First R-Rated Film Topping Huge $1 Billion Box Office
After grossing $37 million internationally and $14 million domestically at the weekend box office, Warner Bros.’ super-villain origin tale
Joker has amassed an impressive $934 million in global theatrical receipts. So it is now inevitable –
Joker will become the first R-rated film topping the huge $1 billion mark at the box office.
It’s especially impressive that
Joker will manage the $1 billion feat without a release in China, making it the first first-release film since 2008’s
The Dark Knight to do so.
The total weekly tally for Joker over the past seven days – meaning the above weekend figures plus the preceding weekday data – tops $70+ million.
Joker would have to drop 50% every week starting immediately, to fall below $1 billion. And since it dropped a remarkably low 24% in foreign markets and only 28% in North America this past weekend, there’s no serious chance of
Joker suddenly suffering 50+% declines all of a sudden.
