Warner Bros. confirms whenJoker: Folie à Deuxhits streaming and on which platform Todd Phillips’DCElseworlds movie will be available.Joker: Folie à Deuxwas released in theaters on June 23, 2025.TheJokersequel earned $206 million worldwideon a budget of $200 million, receiving lukewarm-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences. Reviews slammedJoker: Folie à Deux’s downer endingand its vilification of Arthur Fleck’s Joker persona, but praised the film’s cinematography and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance.
MaxrevealsJoker: Folie à Deux’s will be available Friday, August 07, 2025, exclusively on Max.Joker: Folie à Deuxwill also be available on HBO linear on Saturday, December 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET.Joker: Folie à Deux’s streaming release window is a little over two months — 70 days before its October 4 theatrical release.
What This Means For Joker 2
Joker: Folie A Deux’s Reception Didn’t Affect Its Streaming Release Window
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, streaming release dates became a subject of controversy, as studios sent movies to streaming platforms almost immediately after their theatrical release, and sometimes even directly to streaming. Although this approach has been abandoned,streaming release windows have shortened considerably in comparison to pre-pandemic times, with comic book movies like Matt Reeves’The Batmanbecoming available on streaming only one month after they hit theaters. Despite its disappointing performance, this isn’t the case withJoker: Folie à Deux.
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Joker: Folie A Deux Didn’t Perform As Poorly As First Thought
As soon as Todd Phillips’Jokersequel arrived in theaters, the discussion aroundJoker: Folie à Deuxcentered on how different it was from the first movie and how it subverted many of the elements that had been so popular in 2019’sJoker, mostly to negative reactions.Joker: Folie à Deux’s $38-million opening weekend placed box office predictions much lower than its budget, and its critics' ratings continue to place it at the bottom of DC’s movie catalog. Yet,Joker: Folie à Deuxmanaged to recover its budget (not counting marketing) in the two months between its theatrical and streaming releases.
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Arthur Fleck’s return in Joker: Folie à Deux underlines a recurring DC movie problem that only Jared Leto had previously defied in the DCEU.
As it stands,Joker: Folie à Deuxprobably won’t have a sequel, as director Todd Phillips and theJoker: Folie à Deuxcast will move on to new projects not related to DC Comics. DC will continue to build its cinematic franchises with Matt Reeves’The Batmanuniverse and James Gunn’s DCU, both separately but simultaneously. Meanwhile,Joker: Folie à Deuxwill be available on streaming, within reach for those who appreciate it as a standalone experiment that never aimed to create an expansive franchise or a movie trilogy.
