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Joker Actor Joaquin Phoenix Accepts Best Actor Award at Oscars in Rambling Speech Referencing Cow Insemination and Condemning Cancel Culture

February 9, 2020

Joker actor Joaquin Phoenix accepted the Best Actor award at the Oscars for his role in Joker in a rambling speech that referenced cow insemination and condemned cancel culture. Joaquin Phoenix: "That's when...

Joker Actor Joaquin Phoenix: BAFTA Sends A “Very Clear Message To People Of Color That You’re Not Welcome Here”

JB Augustine

February 4, 2020

Celebrity

In news that is sure to make fervent supporters of the movie Joker cringe or roll their eyes, Joaquin Phoenix called out "systemic racism" when accepting "Best Actor" for Arthur Fleck at the British Academy Fil...

Joker Actor Joaquin Phoenix Arrested At Jane Fonda’s Climate Change Protest

John F. Trent

January 11, 2020

Celebrity

Joker actor Joaquin Phoenix was arrested during Jane Fonda's weekly "Fire Drill Fridays" climate change protests in Washington, D.C. Before Phoenix was arrested, he gave a speech protesting climate change. ...

Joker Actor Joaquin Phoenix Slams Awards Shows After Winning Best Actor At Golden Globes

John F. Trent

January 6, 2020

Celebrity, Movies

Joker actor Joaquin Phoenix slammed awards shows during his acceptance speech for Best Actor at the Golden Globes. Phoenix, a lifelong vegan, started his speech by thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press, who h...

Todd Phillips Wants to See What Batman Would Be Like in the Gotham of His Joker Film

JB Augustine

January 6, 2020

Movies

Joker was supposed to have very little to do with Bruce Wayne and Batman other than a negated plot device, but Todd Phillips threw in a retelling of the Wayne family slaying for good measure anyway. That has...

Todd Phillips And Scott Silver’s Script for Joker is Now Available Online

JB Augustine

December 30, 2019

Movies

The final draft of the script for Joker by director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver is now released free online. Deadline disseminated their screenplay as a PDF everyone can read and download. A lot...

Todd Phillips Doesn’t Fully Believe Arthur Fleck is the Real Joker

JB Augustine

December 23, 2019

Movies

From the beginning of its inception, it was made clear Joker was a standalone origin story set in a separate Elseworlds continuity. It wouldn't tie into anything, not The Batman and not any comic canon. That ha...

Todd Phillips Denies Reports of a Joker Sequel and Further Solo Villain Movies

JB Augustine

November 22, 2019

Movies

Conflicting reports of a Joker sequel and other movies based on popular DC Comics villains being on the table have been addressed by the party concerned. Director Todd Phillips weighed in on chatter of a meetin...

Todd Phillips Reveals Behind The Scenes Photo from Joker Hinting at Catwoman

JB Augustine

November 5, 2019

Movies

Todd Phillips' Joker, an ode to Gotham's clownish alpha bad guy and the pessimistic, morally ambivalent cinema of the 1970s, isn't meant to be connected to any canonical Batman continuity. But, that does not me...

Toby Emmerich: Warner Bros. Didn’t Expect Success or Violence Out of Joker

JB Augustine

October 31, 2019

Movies

Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker has become a phenomenon. No one really expected it to catch on like it has, not even top Warner Bros. executives. In fact, they weren't expecting much from it, at first...

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