Joker

Those walking the streets of Lower Manhattan on Saturday may have noticed a small commotion taking place at City Hall, as hundreds of people swarmed around police officers escorting a mysterious figure down the steps. On closer inspection, this apparent criminal mastermind appeared somewhat familiar.  No, it wasn’t Donald Trump—even…

Lady Gaga is set to play Harley Quinn in the upcoming film Joker: Folie á Deux and the first look of her in character has been dropped. The film’s director Todd Phillips recently released an image of Gaga’s performance as the famous character in the upcoming sequel to Joaquin Phoenix’s…

View gallery Image Credit: Jim Ruymen/UPI/John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is the follow-up film to 2019’s box office hit, ‘Joker’ The movie will see Lady Gaga play Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix return as the Joker The film’s producers have kept the full cast and plot of the movie…

Up-and-coming Moroccan filmmaker Saïd Hamich Benlarbi is developing a brace of projects as a producer and director, notably “La mer au loin” which won one of the two top prizes at the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops. Produced by Hamich Benlarbi’s Paris-based banner Barney Production and Manuel Chiche’s company The…

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Veteran actor Brendan Gleeson has joined the ensemble of Joker sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in the much-awaited film Joker: Folie a Deux for Warner Bros. and DC Films. Joker: Folie à Deux: Brendan Gleeson joins Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel As reported…

Netflix The California Film Commission announced its latest round of credit allocations on Monday morning, awarding $93.7 million to eighteen film projects. The most high-profile is “Joker: Folie á Deux,” Todd Phillips’ upcoming sequel to his acclaimed Joaquin Phoenix-led smash hit, which is ditching the New York location shoot of…

The “Batgirl” cancellation saga continues. Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures Group chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy are hoping to mend fences with the film’s star Leslie Grace (“In the Heights”). As a result, the pair are reportedly “entertaining the possibility of having her continue to play Batgirl…

Three years after Joaquin Phoenix delivered a stellar performance in Joker, the actor has yet again joined forces with the Oscar-nominated director, Todd Phillips, for its much-anticipated sequel. Phillips announced the news via an Instagram post back in June. He will once again team up with co-writer Scott Silver for the…