Foreign box office: Joker rakes in huge $140.5M for $234M global launch
and remind patrons that face paint, masks and toy weapons aren't allowed. Theaters are also checking IDs and informing guests that the film's rating is a "hard R," and that anyone under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult when buying a ticket.
Only 8 percent of ticket buyers were between ages 13 and 17, according to PostTrak's exit polling service . Overall, males made up 62 percent of the audience.played to an ethnically diverse crowd: 44 percent of ticket buyers were Caucasian, followed by Hispanics , African Americans and Asians/Other . The majority of the audience was between ages 18 and 34.
Audiences gave the film a B+ CinemaScore, while its Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating is 69 percent. Village Roadshow and Bron Studios each have a stake in the film, which cost north of $60 million to produce before marketing.placed No. 2 at the North American box office with $12 million in its sophomore outing for a 10-day domestic total of $37.8 million. Overseas, the DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studios co-production opened in China to $11.
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