{"id":28440,"date":"2024-02-23T03:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/joker-2s-whopping-salaries-for-joaquin-phoenix-and-lady-gaga-unveiled-films-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T03:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:51:40","slug":"joker-2s-whopping-salaries-for-joaquin-phoenix-and-lady-gaga-unveiled-films-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/joker-2s-whopping-salaries-for-joaquin-phoenix-and-lady-gaga-unveiled-films-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Joker 2\u2019s whopping salaries for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga unveiled | Films | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in 2019, Joker made over $1 billion on a budget of just\u00a0$60 million.<\/p>\n<p>The arthouse gamble paid off for Warner Bros as the DC solo movie became the first R-rated movie to hit the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Add Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s Best Actor Oscar win and it was only a matter of time before a sequel was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Joker:\u00a0Folie \u00e0 Deux is set for release later this year with both director Todd Phillips and the star returning, alongside Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in the musical follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>And now the latest report is that the blockbuster\u2019s budget has ballooned to $200 million, alongside news of the actors\u2019 mammoth paydays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to Variety, Phoenix\u2019s salary for Joker 2 is $20 million, up from $4.5 million for the first film. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga is being paid somewhere in the region of $12 million.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt Warner Bros are hoping for another $1 billion hit with the sequel that will no doubt get awards season interest come 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux hits cinemas on October 4, 2024.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back in 2019, Joker made over $1 billion on a budget of just\u00a0$60 million. The arthouse gamble paid off for Warner Bros as the DC solo movie became the first R-rated movie to hit the milestone. Add Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s Best Actor Oscar win and it was only a matter of time before a sequel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}