Oscars 2020 are set. The nominations were just revealed, and comic fans will be happy to learn that Joker snagged 11 nominations, the most of any film, including Best Picture, Best Director for Todd Phillips, and Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. Other top nominated films include The Irishman, which got 10 nominations, but none for […]
Joker became one of the biggest hits of 2019. An expected success, the film surpassed projections on a grand scale breaking the record for highest-grossing R-rated film. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a mentally-disturbed performer with dreams of a career as a stand-up comic. Director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver made the subversive […]
Golden Globe nominations were just revealed. The big winner was Netflix, scoring the two films with the most nominations. Marriage Story leads all films with six nominations, one more than Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also scored five nominations, while Joker scored four nominations, including Best Picture-Drama, Best Actor for […]
Despite conflicting reports between The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood, director Todd Phillips cleared the air regarding any discussions about a sequel to Joker. He spoke to Indiewire about what really happened in his meetings with Warner Bros and star Joaquin Phoenix. The Reporting Dispute THR reported Phillips had an October 7th meeting with studio […]
UPDATE: Sources over at Deadline are now reporting that this original story is false and that the meeting mentioned never happened. We will continue to update as we learn more. Joker director Todd Phillips is in discussions with Warner Bros to develop a sequel to the film, which crossed $1 billion recently. If confirmed, screenwriter […]
Joker came out seven weeks ago now, kicking off an astonishing run at the box office that will see it cross the $1 billion threshold at some point today. It becomes the first R-rated film to do so. Even more impressive: Joker did it without ever unspooling in China. Even more impressive, impressive: only around […]
Aaron Eckhart loves sharing advice to other among the Batman film family. He played Harvey Dent/Two Face in The Dark Knight (2008), the second of director Christopher Nolan's trilogy. Regarded as the best live action Batman film, Eckhart feels a bond whenever an actor enters the Batman world. Eckhart spoke to Entertainment Weekly while promoting […]
If there's anyone who's aware of box office records, it's Deadpool's Ryan Reynolds. After Joker record-breaking run making over $700 worldwide, Reynolds took to Instagram to congratulate its cast and crew. Reynolds used a still from the film's iconic scene where Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) completes his transformation to the sadistic clown. With his head […]
With less than a week to go before Todd Phillips Joker opens nationwide, the film has been met with awards, accolades, and condemnation. To say that three-time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix's turn as DC Comics' iconic villain has broken social media in half would be an understatement. From "toxic masculinity" to "glorification of violence," important societal […]
More than four months after the release of the first poster and teaser trailer from the Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon 2019 were met with righteously strong, positive buzz, movie fans are getting their first official trailer and a new poster for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker. Set to open wide on October 4th and starring three-time […]
Most of us have seen the trailer to Todd Phillips' Joker movie by now— the enigmatic, moody, and tense feel of the movie just drips off of the screen, with Joaquin Phoenix playing a man with a clown obsession that might be far from healthy. Speaking recently with Empire, Phillips says that his Joker movie […]
Hot on the heels of our first teaser for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker film for Warner Bros. Pictures starring Joaquin Phoenix as a very different Clown Prince of Crime- a blast from the late 80's television past. Once upon a time ago, there was a CBAS tv series called Superboy, that ran from 1988-1992. In first season episode 20 […]
Hot off the heels of the release of the first official poster and the screening of the teaser trailer at Tuesday evening's Warner Bros. Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2019, we're are getting our first look at the new teaser trailer for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker origin film – set to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting Bat-universe. […]
While we're waiting for a new teaser trailer for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker origin film (coming on April 3rd), how about a better look at the poster he shared this morning? Featuring three time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the iconic DC Comics role, the poster has an interesting (and completely appropriate) tagline of "put on a happy […]
CinemaCon is happening this week in Las Vegas, so there will be some pretty big teaser and trailer drops happening. One of those may NOT be a CinemaCon exclusive, because the first teaser trailer for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime will hit tomorrow, Wednesday April 3rd. We […]
Zazie Beetz, who played Domino in Deadpool 2, has another superhero film due out in theaters this year. She'll be appearing in Todd Phillip's Joker film, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime. In a recent interview with MTVNews, Beetz revealed some…interesting information about the production on Phillips' film–including the apparent massive rewrites that were happening during […]
Director Todd Phillips just loves to share images of his upcoming Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix. We're not complaining really, its just…..strange. Today, Phillips shared this [actually interesting, what?!] image of Phoenix taking a smoke break on set in costume on his Instagram account, crediting the image to Niko Tavernise: View this post on Instagram […]
Not content with just giving us scenes from the set or basic test footage, director Todd Phillips took to his Instagram account on Friday to offer up another camera test teaser of Joaquin Phoenix in The Untitled Joker Movie / The Joker – except this one's a little more befitting of the lead. Set to the […]
There's no telling when we'll actually get to see any glimpse of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips' Joker film, but maybe he'll look a little something like this? Phillips shared this image to his personal Instagram today of Phoenix, with the title, "Arthur". View this post on Instagram Arthur. A post shared by Todd Phillips […]
Take this with a grain of Brand X salt, but we may know who will be composing the score for Todd Phillips's upcoming The Joker origin movie starring Joaquin Phoenix: Hildur Gudnadottir. According to Film Music Reporter, Hildur Gudnadottir has been brought on score the film, which at this time still doesn't have a title. Gudnadottir is […]
