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Joaquin Phoenix is back to portraying Arthur Fleck, better known as the Joker as Joker: Folie à Deux starts filming. Director Todd Phillips released the first image of the supervillain on the set captioning on Instagram, “Day 1. Our boy.” In the image, Phoenix is seen getting shaved with his head…

Bron, the Canadian financier which had slate deals with WB and MGM, has confirmed that it is downsizing and changing course. Rumours have been swirling for a couple of months that the Joker backer has had to shed staff and will be unable to commit to big-canvas movies going forward. Indiewire had a…

Margot Robbie is opening up about Lady Gaga taking on the Harley Quinn role in the Joker sequel alongside Joaquin Phoenix. Joker: Folie à Deux is reportedly a musical and the Born This Way crooner will play the villain Robbie has portrayed in three different films: Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey and The Suic…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear on good authority that Zazie Beetz is in talks to reprise her role as Sophie Dumond in the Todd Phillips directed Warner Bros/DC sequel Joker: Folie à Deux.  The movie, which is set to start shooting in December, will hit theaters on Oct. 4, 2024. Lady Gaga announced on social media recently that…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of Warner Bros Discovery axing Batgirl for HBO Max, it has put forward a silver lining for DC: Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, is getting a October 4, 2024, release date. Warners already had the day on hold for an untitled DC event film, so it’s not shocking to see Joker 2 wind…

Sondra James, a character actor who has appeared in film, TV and onstage over the past four decades with the likes of Ben Affleck, Robert De Niro, Christopher Lloyd, Mike Birbiglia and Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar-winning role in 2019’s Joker, died September 12 in her native New York City after a five-month battle…

The Grammys awarded Billie Eilish’s theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie No Time to Die its Best Song Written for Visual Media on Sunday, a highlight of the pre-primetime Grammy Awards recipients. Eilish co-wrote the song for the film with brother Finneas. The tentpole franchise pic has moved several times…

Jared Leto might be his generation’s leading character actor. When I told him during our conversation for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, after looking at his filmography, that is how I would describe him, he took it as a great compliment. The proof is on the screen as Leto says he…

'Joker' Tops 2020 UK Home Ent Chart Joker was 2020's biggest home entertainment title in the UK, with more than 1.4 million copies of the film sold across physical disc, EST and TVOD, according to industry body BASE. In total, the market was worth £3.3BN across the year, up 26% on the previous 12 months. Digital…

David Fincher has criticized Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning superhero spin-off flic Joker for its portrayal of mental illness. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the Mank and Fight Club filmmaker said the movie was "a betrayal of the mentally ill" and also took a wider swipe at the Hollywood studios for only…

Jared Leto doesn’t look to be done with his Joker role just yet as Deadline can confirm the Oscar winner is set to reprise the role in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which is premiering on HBO Max in 2021. Officially titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the directors cut is being overseen by HBO Max, which is financing…

EXCLUSIVE: Global VFX house DNEG has bolstered its offering in Los Angeles with the appointment of visual effects supervisor Bryan Godwin. The former founder and CEO of Shade VFX has worked on more than one hundred projects, including Joker, Sonic The Hedgehog, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Wolverine, Iron Fist…