Box Office: ‘Joker 2’ Stumbles With Lackluster $40 Million Debut

“Joker: Folie à Deux,” a genre-bending sequel to the billion-dollar comic book smash, hit a sour note at the box office even as it opened to No. 1 with $40 million. Those discordant domestic ticket sales were behind initial projections of $50 million to $65 million — a range that was already revised down in the […]