Last weekend's global box office charts (10.4-10.6) are out.

Although the Chinese mainland market has the National Day file support, but the performance of domestic films did not meet expectations, the global weekend box office has five domestic films into the top 10, but the global championship was taken away by "Joker 2".

"Joker 2" and "Volunteer Army 2" took the top spot at the global box office last weekend.

"Joker 2" debuted in 77 overseas markets on October 4, winning the top spot in most of the local markets as expected, and raking in $121 million, or 840 million yuan, in the first three days of its global opening weekend.

The North American market contributed the most. It grossed $40 million in three days in North America.

Not only beat the "Volunteer Army: The War of Survival" to win the global championship, and even exceeded the cumulative box office of "Volunteer Army: The War of Survival" of 112 million US dollars in just 3 days, which shows the power of Hollywood global distribution, for an ordinary Hollywood blockbuster, this result is a blast, but for "Joker" is not the same.

The movie cost $200 million to make, which is about 1.4 billion yuan. The pressure to recover at current rates is enormous.

The first weekend performance of "Joker 2" in North America was even lower than "The Flash" and "Captain Marvel 2", basically the same as "Mobias", while "Mobias" global box office was only 167 million US dollars, and the North American audience even gave "Joker 2" only 31% of the praise, the rating is also D grade, is the worst word of mouth in the history of Marvel film! None of them!

Joker 2's only hope of making its money back is overseas.

As of October 6, the film's cumulative global box office in the seven days of release was 112 million US dollars, most of which was contributed by the Chinese mainland market, and Hong Kong's box office was only 88,000 US dollars.

It can be seen that the overseas performance gap between domestic war blockbusters and Hollywood war blockbusters is still very large.

In fact, Hollywood war movies can also be regarded as American theme movies to some extent, and export more values. However, the overseas box office of such classics as ‌ Saving Private Ryan ‌ and ‌ Hacksaw Ridge actually exceeds the local North America, which shows the influence of Hollywood. We also hope that our war movies can set off a global wave one day.

Can China save Joker 2?

The box office pressure on Joker 2 is undoubtedly huge.

2019's Joker cost just $60 million to make, plus the DC cinematic universe was being crushed by Marvel at the time.

Almost no one is optimistic about the box office prospects of "Joker", did not expect the film to be a blockbuster, won a number of awards, word-of-mouth feedback to the box office, and finally broke through 1.07 billion US dollars worldwide, creating the box office record in the history of R-rated films.

Five years later, Joker 2 came.

The same cast, the special effects scene has not been upgraded, but the production cost has skyrocketed to 200 million US dollars, of which the actor Joaquin Phoenix's salary is as high as 20 million US dollars, and the female lead Lady Gaga also took away 12 million US dollars, so let alone what the domestic film star salary is high, compared with Hollywood stars is nothing.

The reason for the box office failure of "Joker 2" is not only that the cost is out of control, but more importantly, it ignores the audience's feelings.

The sequel fans want to see how Arthur becomes that frightening clown, with a more ambitious world view and action scenes, but "Joker 2" is so small, it is really a musical film, and even the end of the film also implies that Arthur is not a real clown, and the whole film gives people the feeling of watching the movie.

You can't blame fans for voting with their wallets.

In the case of the overall collapse of the North American market, the only hope for "Clown 2" to return the capital is the Chinese mainland market.

Although the film was not released in the mainland, but Douban 1.06 million people hit a high score of 8.7, ranked the Top250 168, in the fans have a very high influence, although "Clown 2" word-of-mouth failure, but with the R-rated gimmick, coupled with the temptation not to cut, or will let many mainland fans buy, some time ago "Alien: Renegade is also a North American loss.

It is the mainland audience that has contributed nearly 800 million box office, successfully helping the film to make money back.

Of course, it also reminds R-rated action movie fans that the scale of Joker 2 is not as large as expected, which is one of the reasons why the film can be introduced.

"Clown 2" is more like a spent a lot of money to shoot literary film, the personal style of the main producer is very obvious, want to see the audience is not suitable, "clown 2" China's mainland set file on October 16, when the National Day blockbuster Yu Wei is still in, "Clown 2" the mainland box office prospects are not optimistic.