Comic book movie Joker has crossed $1 billion (Rs 71635 million) in global ticket sales on Friday, turning into the first R-rated Hollywood film ever to overcome the milestone.
A Forbes report said the "$62.5 million-budgeted DC Films movie crossed the $1 billion mark in raw global grosses". It further said Joker is additionally the greatest earning movie ever (in raw unadjusted grosses) to never play in China.
Joker, a dark origin story from Warner Bros. about Batman's most outstanding enemy, had sold $999.1 billion as of Thursday regardless of not having been screened in China, which is anticipated to turn into the world's biggest film market next year.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Joker is the fourth DC title to cross $1 billion, after Aquaman ($1.15 billion), The Dark Knight Rises ($1.084 billion) and The Dark Knight ($1.005 billion), without any adjustments for inflation.
Featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a rationally sick maverick who discovers acclaim through a random act of violence, the movie earned warm surveys as it opened toward the beginning of October however stoked controversy in the United States over fears it would encourage violence.
Box office analyst Gitesh Pandya prior said Joker would top the $1 billion level on Friday. "Absolutely jaw-dropping achievement for an R-rated film with a moderate budget and no China release," Pandya, founder and editor of Box Office Guru, composed on Twitter.
Its closest R-rated rivals are 2018 movie Deadpool 2 ($785 million) and 2016's "Deadpool" ($783 million), both featuring Ryan Reynolds as an indecent hero. Thanks to a modest production budget estimated at about $60 million, Joker is additionally the most profitable comic book movie consistently, as per Forbes.com, due to a great extent to the film's emphasis on character as opposed to enhancements and action scenes.
Joker is presently the seventh greatest Hollywood movie at the 2019 box office, behind action-packed blockbuster Avengers: Endgame at $2.8 billion and family movie The Lion King at $1.6 billion, both from Walt Disney.
The movie is expected to land nominations in the forthcoming Hollywood awards season and has inspired fans to visit the spot in New York's Bronx area where Phoenix's character changes into the Joker, his face painted like a clown and with green hair, and dances triumphantly down a set of steep steps.