With its hotly-anticipated release a little over two weeks away, we’ve got a new IMAX poster for Warner Bros. and DC Film’s Joker featuring Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain: Joker centres around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not … Continue reading ‘Joker’ gets a New IMAX Poster!! Check It Out!!

Warner Bros. has released 21 new images from the upcoming Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Frances Conroy. The Todd Phillips-directed film is not directly connected to any DC Comics origin story for the famous Batman villain. It does, however, offer up an alternate version of Joker’s journey from a downtrodden, average Gotham citizen into one of the most chaotic and dangerous criminals in the city limits. The new … Continue reading ‘Joker’: 21 New Images Take Us Deeper into the DC Film!! Check It Out!!

Todd Phillips, the director of Joker, has said that he won’t rule out making a sequel to the movie. While DC fans are eagerly anticipating the Joaquin Phoenix led Joker solo movie, the film’s director is already being asked questions about a possible sequel. Would he ever do it? Well, he’s not ruling it out. Speaking to Total Film Magazine (via ComicBook.com), Todd Phillips said … Continue reading ‘Joker’: Todd Phillips Wouldn’t say No to Making a Sequel!!

Total Film has revealed its subscriber only cover of this month’s issue featuring Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming Joker movie, along with three images from the DC solo feature giving us a new look at Phoenix as the title character and Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond; take a look here: Subscribers! Prepare your mail boxes – the Clown Prince of Crime is coming. Here’s your … Continue reading ‘Joker’: New Images Feature Joaquin Phoenix and Zazie Beetz!! Check It Out!!

Comic book fans may want to put their expectations in check when it comes to this fall’s Joker. While the Warner Bros. film is ostensibly about the origins of the titular DC Comics villain, an iconic foe of the famed Dark Knight, co-writer and director Todd Phillips says they pulled absolutely nothing from the source material to craft this story. Indeed, the film originated when … Continue reading ‘Joker’ Doesn’t Follow Anything From the Comics, Confirms Director Todd Phillips!!

Empire Magazine has revealed its August issue covers which feature Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck from Warner Bros. and DC Films’ upcoming Joker solo movie; check them out here: Joker is set for release on October 4th 2019 and stars Joaquin Phoenix (The Sisters Brothers), Robert De Niro (Goodfellas), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Bill Camp (Red Sparrow), Frances Conroy (American Horror Story), Brett Cullen (Narcos), Glenn Fleshler (Billions), … Continue reading ‘Joker’: Empire Magazine Covers Feature Joaquin Phoenix’s DC Villain!! Check It Out!!

When the unique DC adaptation Joker hits theaters later this year, it will indeed be with an R rating from the MPAA. This one-off take on the iconic DC Comics villain was spearheaded by The Hangover and War Dogs filmmaker Todd Phillips, who pitched making a gritty, 70s-set Joker movie in the vein of Taxi Driver with a major movie star in the lead role. … Continue reading ‘Joker’ Will Be Rated R, Director Todd Phillips Confirms!!

Director Todd Phillips has posted the first poster for Joker on his Instagram page. The upcoming drama is a character-driven study of the famous Batman villain that stars Joaquin Phoenix in the title role. Details on the plot are still scarce, but the origin story is supposed to be akin to films like The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver. What’s fascinating about this first … Continue reading ‘Joker’: First Poster Wants You to Put on a Happy Face!! Check It Out!!

While Warner Bros. is about to release the colorful, family-centric DC adaptation Shazam!, the studio has a very different kind of DC Comics movie on tap later this year: Joker. The 1981-set film is described as a one-off, standalone adaptation of the iconic Batman villain with Joaquin Phoenix taking on the titular role, and co-writer/director Todd Phillips has shared a new look at Phoenix in … Continue reading ‘Joker’: New Image Has Joaquin Phoenix Channeling ‘Jesse James’!!!

Listen, all we know for sure about Todd Phillips‘ Joker origin story is that it’s a low-budget noir that sees a clown’d up Joaquin Phoenix terrorizing people on a subway platform (occasionally for real) and is also somehow drawing from Martin Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy. Robert De Niro is gonna’ be there, too. It’s going to be insane, is what I’m saying, and apparently, Phillips and Co. … Continue reading ‘Joker’: Todd Phillips Rewrote The DC Film During Production!!

Principal photography on the highly anticipated DC Comics adaptation Joker has come to an end. This comes almost three months to the day that filming on the movie began, almost all of which took place in New York City. Director Todd Phillips announced the wrap himself with a set photo on Instagram, also noting that they’re far from the end as now the long post-production … Continue reading ‘Joker’ Wraps Filming as Todd Phillips Shares One Final Set Photo!! Check It Out!!

Joker director Todd Phillips has cast the next actor to play Bruce Wayne on the big screen, but it isn’t any of the A-list names we’ve heard bandied about in recent months. Instead ‘Master Bruce’ will be played by young Dante Pereira-Olson, who played a young version of Joaquin Phoenix‘s character in You Were Never Really Here. Phoenix, of course, is playing the title character in … Continue reading ‘Joker’: The DC Film Has Cast Its Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth!!!