Joker: Folie à Deux has slipped from the top of the North American box office, falling 80% to just $7.1 million from last weekend’s chart-topping debut of $30 million (£22.97 million).
According to The Hollywood Reporter , this is a record-breaking collapse for a comic book movie.
It was replaced by the indie horror film 3, which grossed an estimated $18.2 million over the weekend.
The “Joker” sequel was also beaten into third place by the animated film “Robot,” which held steady in second place with $13.4 million.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped one spot to fourth place, earning $7 million.
Critics have mixed feelings about “Joker: Pas de Deux,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, calling it “dark and bold” but also “dreary and dull.”
Rounding out the top five in North America is the comedy “Piece by Piece,” which features Lego animation and features an A-list voice cast including Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake and Busta Rhymes.
Meanwhile, “The Apprentice,” a movie about Donald Trump, came in at No. 10 with just $1.6 million.
The film will premiere in the UK on Tuesday as part of the London Film Festival.
It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, drawing mostly positive reviews from critics but also receiving legal threats from the former president.
The biopic traces the U.S. presidential candidate’s origins as an ambitious young real estate developer in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
His spokesman described the film, which includes a scene in which Trump rapes his first wife Ivana, as “trash,” “pure fiction” and “electoral interference by Hollywood elites.”
The film begins by stating that many of its events are fictional.
