Todd Phillips' movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga is the first Hollywood comic book pic to receive the failing grade from audiences and may only open in the mid-$40 million range.

Lady Gaga is singing a different tune about playing Harleen "Lee" Quinzel in musical sequel "Joker: Folie à Deux." Gaga told People that while characters have stuck with her long after wrapping previous films "A Star Is Born" (2018) and "House of Gucci" (2021),

In Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga stars as Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck/Joker. The film—which is part jukebox musical and part crime drama—is the sequel to the 2019 blockbuster hit Joker, which earned Phoenix a Best Actor Oscar.

The stars do their best with Todd Phillips' shallow sequel. Joker: Folie à Deux Fails Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn: Review

Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix were among the stars on had for the Joker: Folie a Deux premiere in Los Angeles Monday evening.

Rare is the musical that can waste a pop megastar of Gaga’s caliber. Rarer still is the one that will send you away humming no tune, tapping no toes. If you bought a ticket to “Joker: Folie à Deux,” then the joke — yet again — is on you.

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The Folie à Deux soundtrack does overlap significantly with Harlequin. Quite a few of the oldies on Gaga’s album appear here in darker, more doom-laden form. Phoenix sings some of them, including, obviously,