Box Office Update: Joker Passes Aladdin, Frozen 2 Hits $300 Million, Venom 2 to Consider R-Rated Status

It’s been a little while since we’ve had a box office update, and it has been a busy week in the world of cinema (as always!). Firstly, Joker has enjoyed plenty of success, and this is news we’ve brought to you in the past. Now, however, it has earned around $331 million in North America alone. At the beginning of the week, the domestic/international split was at 31.5/68.5 which means that the movie has earned over $1 billion and it has crept above Aladdin in the box office revenue rankings.

At the moment, this means Joker will end the year as the sixth most successful movie. Despite only a few weeks remaining, this is still subject to change as Frozen 2 continues to grow and we await the launch of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. If the two movies enjoy the success expected, Joker will still go down as the eight-largest film of 2019 and, considering all the concerns regarding the return of the infamous character, a huge success.

Frozen 2 Continues to Excel

While on the note of Frozen 2, it has now passed $300 million domestically and some are predicting a further $40 million this weekend alone as the weekends before Christmas get fewer. Internationally, the movie has been a huge hit (to nobody’s surprise) and has now amounted revenues of over $750 million. With this in mind, it seems inevitable that Frozen 2 will join the $1 billion club; a club which has seen six new Disney members in 2019 alone. The other five are;

• Toy Story 4
• The Lion King
• Avengers: Endgame
• Captain Marvel
• Aladdin

In truth, Disney has been relentless in the world of cinema this year. Across the first three quarters of 2019, 40% of ALL box office revenues went to Disney films. If we count 2018 and 2019 together, the company is expected to pass $21 billion. Regardless of what they do, movie-goers seem to be loving the company right now.

R-Rated Status for Venom 2?

Elsewhere, the first instalment of the Venom series was largely a success. However, there were calls from some fans to take the character to the next level. Thanks to the success of Joker, it seems we could be about to get our wishes. According to some reports, Tom Hardy actually called for more gruesome action so that it would stay true to the original comic books. Now, Matt Tolmach, producer of Venom, has said that the sequel will consider an R rating.

Although he was happy with how the film went, he said it’s always worth considering now that this genre works. While talking to CinemaBlend, Tolmach said, ‘I think what Joker does is it tells you that you can succeed…Deadpool sort of wrestled that to the turf, and then Logan, but for a long time, that was considered totally forbidden.’ R-rated movies are now being accepted, will Venom 2 follow the trend?