Joker has been a smashing success at the box office so far, and the movie is on track to make nearly as much profit as Avengers: Endgame, believe it or not. As of this writing, the movie has made $747 million worldwide, and it will very soon pass up Deadpool and its sequel for highest grossing rated-R movie of all time.
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds sent out a preemptive congratulatory tweet with an edited Joker poster, in a way perfectly fitting for the comedic actor.
According to Box Office Mojo, Joker still has $38 million to go, globally, before it officially passes the two Merc with a Mouth films, but that day will come sooner than you think, as people are still hitting the theaters to check out the movie.
In GameSpot’s review of Joker, Michael Rougeau said, “Joker succeeds, without equivocation, because it transforms the villain into the populist antihero we need him to be now. Joker wears its influences on its maroon sleeves, but it also carves its own gashes through the blood-soaked landscape of contemporary comic book movies, offering something that, despite teetering on the shoulders of 80 years of history, is wonderfully fresh, dangerously exciting, undeniably entertaining, and rock-solid in its artistry. It might make you uncomfortable, and it will no doubt stay with you long after the curtains close; great movies often do.”
