Todd Phillips' movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is the first Hollywood comic book pic to receive the failing grade from audiences and may only open in the mid-$40 million range.

Folie à Deux” is projected to make about half of what the original "Joker" did in its opening weekend in theaters.

Folie a Deux," which is seeing its box office estimates slide further as poor reviews from opening night audiences, including the lowest ever CinemaScore grade for a comic book film. Currently, industry estimates have the film earning a $47 million opening weekend — roughly half of the $96 million of the first "Joker" — as opening night buzz on social media and in audience polling has been

But CinemaScore is a pretty good measure of whether early audience members were pissed off right after walking out of a theater, and so it feels mildly instructive to note that Todd Phillips Joker: Folie À Deux has just received a rare D grade from the polling company,

Outside the top 5 is Lionsgate’s misfire White Bird with $650K today, and $1.5M-$2M opening for the weekend.

Todd Phillips' daring movie teams Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in a genre-busting, music-infused sequel that's polarizing critics and audiences.

The sequel, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, is the first Hollywood comic book film to get such a low grade.

Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and co-writer-director Todd Phillips bend the architecture of the comic-book origin story toward a musical, not all that tunefully.

Todd Phillips' sequel to his 2019 vigilante extravaganza, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has so little energy that it sags off the screen.