Filmmaker Todd Phillips's R-rated Joker has just joined the billion-dollar club at the worldwide box office. As per a report in deadline.com, the global collection as of Thursday stood at $999.1 million, and it clocked $317M stateside yesterday.
The superhero movie starring Joaquin Phoenix is also destined to generate profits of $600 million for Warners and partners Village Roadshow and Bron. The two partners each have a 25 per cent stake in the film, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Joker also becomes the fourth DC title to cross $1 billion, behind Aquaman ($1.15 billion), The Dark Knight Rises ($1.084 billion) and The Dark Knight ($1.005 billion), not adjusted for inflation.
Even though it is not billed as a traditional superhero movie, it becomes the 13th live-action comic book movie to collect $1 billion.
Joker had already passed up Deadpool ($783 million) to become the top-grossing R-rated movie of all time, not adjusted for inflation.
Joker became the sixth Warner Brothers film to lay claim to the billion-dollar milestone. In addition to Aquaman and the two Dark Knight movies, the other titles are the final Harry Potter movie ($1.34 billion) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ($1.02 billion).
That number grows to seven if counting Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.13 billion).
In terms of other DC titles in the post-Christopher Nolan era, Man of Steel topped out at $668 million globally, followed by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873.6 million), Suicide Squad ($746.8 million), Wonder Woman ($821.8 million) and Justice League ($657.9 million).
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