How Much Did Joaquin Phoenix Get Paid for ‘Joker’? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Joker is now the easiest-grossing R-rated film ever. The darkish superhero film has raked in nearly $850 million worldwide after three weeks in theaters. Now, folk are wondering if the controversial film directed by Todd Phillips will hit $1 billion at the sphere set of enterprise. 

The film is making a lot of cash for Warner Bros. However what about its megastar Joaquin Phoenix? 

Joaquin Phoenix earned $4.5 million for ‘Joker’

Phoenix, who performs failed comedian Arthur Fleck, has earned each and each excessive reward and a noteworthy payday for his feature in Joker. He used to be paid $4.5 million for the film, based mostly entirely on a file in Selection. On the opposite hand, he earned not as much as his fellow DC film stars Gal Gadot and Margot Robbie, who will each and each invent round $10 million for their roles in the impending motion footage Wonder Lady 1984 and Birds of Prey, respectively.

Joker rate reasonably small to form, at the least by comic e book film standards. It’s budget used to be $64 million, which is likely one reason Phoenix’s payday isn’t as extensive Gadot or Robbie’s. However the film has swiftly change into his most successful thus a long way, and a few think it’ll furthermore invent him an Oscar nomination.

Phoenix has a gather price of $35 million

The 45-year-dilapidated Phoenix’s Joker payday adds to his extensive bank legend. The actor has an estimated gather price of $35 million, based mostly entirely on Movie megastar Catch Price. 

His earnings for past motion footage have ranged from $375,000 for a supporting feature in the Marquis de Sade biopic Quills to $5 million for The Village, based mostly entirely on IMDb. He reportedly earned $1 million for Indicators and $3.5 million for Stroll the Line.

Will there be a ‘Joker’ sequel?

Whereas some in the film industry had been skeptical that Joker would prevail at the sphere set of enterprise, the gritty starting up story has clearly connected with audiences. That has many wondering if the film will discover a sequel, with Phoenix reprising his feature as Fleck/Joker.

As of now, the Joker character isn’t living to appear in any upcoming DC Extended Universe films. Jared Leto’s version of the character, who used to be launched in Suicide Squad, is absent from Birds of Prey, which makes a speciality of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn character. And in the Robert Pattinson film The Batman, the villains are Riddler, Catwoman, and Penguin. Since Joker used to be intended to be a standalone film unconnected to assorted motion footage with DC characters, it appears to be like not going that he’ll pop up in some unspecified time in the future. 

On the opposite hand, it’s doable that Joker might perhaps well discover a sequel, given its extensive success at the sphere set of enterprise. Though the film wasn’t envisioned as the first in a bigger series, Phillips and Phoenix have reportedly mentioned strategies for a put collectively-up film. On the opposite hand, there need to not any concrete plans to revisit the character. 

“We haven’t any plans for a sequel. The quote used to be, ‘I will discontinue one thing else Joaquin needs to discontinue.’ And I’d. However the film’s not living as much as [have] a sequel. We continuously pitched it as one film, and that’s it,” Phillips has acknowledged. 

“We made this film, I pitched it to Warner Bros. as one film. It exists in its have world,” he added. “That’s it.” 

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