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Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest well Keen Phoenix Is.
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Speaker 1: Joker was obviously made to do well at the box office,
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Speaker 1: but it was far too dark with an R rating
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Speaker 1: to ever be a humongous success. At least that was
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Speaker 1: the thinking before debuted, and since it's gone on to
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Speaker 1: smash records and rick over like a billion dollars worldwide,
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Speaker 1: becoming the top grossing R rated film ever. It was
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Speaker 1: all supposed to be a standalone film, but when a
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Speaker 1: movie makes money like that, plans changed. According to The
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Speaker 1: Hollywood Reporter, a sequel now on the way, with both
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Speaker 1: Joaquin returning, as well as director and co writer Todd Phillips.
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Speaker 1: Not on all. Todd is also attached to create another
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Speaker 1: origin story based on a different supervillain in the DC universe,
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Speaker 1: rumored to be Lex Luthor. For the record, Todd well
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Speaker 1: known Hollywood were deferring a large paycheck up front for
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Speaker 1: The Hangover, which he co wrote and directed. He believed
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Speaker 1: that in the project instead took ten percent in the
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Speaker 1: box office made him sixty eight million bucks. He did
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Speaker 1: the same thing on Joker, and so far he's made
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Speaker 1: a hundred million plus on that one. That's direct from Hollywood,