{"id":117498,"date":"2024-04-12T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/12\/report-the-launch-of-lady-gagas-joker-2-trailer-was-bigger-than-barbie\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:07:45","slug":"report-the-launch-of-lady-gagas-joker-2-trailer-was-bigger-than-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/12\/report-the-launch-of-lady-gagas-joker-2-trailer-was-bigger-than-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: The launch of Lady Gaga&#8217;s&#8217; &#8216;Joker 2&#8217; trailer was bigger than &#8216;Barbie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-12\/E_JokerFolieaDeuxposter_040224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xy8aJw1vYHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the trailer<\/a> for <strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>&#8216;s upcoming movie <em>Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux <\/em>was more than Kenough to beat <em>Barbie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/joker-2-trailer-views-first-24-hours-1235968367\/#recipient_hashed=4c01f22a6a41b2092fc16cef081057dccf84876e4a079bb15540d35a61030b91&amp;recipient_salt=003e8e1d4363f02b5fb126f718ae840a43dd9e2cdb3e8541430981f0038cf293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sources tell <em>Variety<\/em><\/a> that the numbers for the trailer, including social engagement, were bigger than that of the first <em>Barbie<\/em> trailer, making it the biggest launch for Warner Bros. in recent years. According to the publication, it drew 167 million views in its first 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The night it premiered, it was the #1 trending video on YouTube, and in just two days, it&#8217;s racked up more than 20 million views on that platform alone. On the social media platform X, 10 terms related to the movie were trending the night of the trailer&#8217;s launch, including Lady Gaga and her character, Harley Quinn.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the debut of the trailer for <em>Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/em> &#8220;only&#8221; got 100 million views, while Pixar&#8217;s <em>Inside Out 2<\/em> got 157 million views. But <em>Joker<\/em> wasn&#8217;t able to beat the current record holder, Marvel&#8217;s <em>Deadpool and Wolverine,<\/em> which set a record earlier this year with 365 million views.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, <em>Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux,<\/em> which comes out October 4, stars <strong>Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong> as Joker aka Arthur Fleck, who meets and falls for Gaga&#8217;s character, Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn. Together they go on a chaotic rampage, but according to the trailer, the mayhem seems to be interspersed with fantastical musical numbers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xy8aJw1vYHo\" title=\"Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux | Official Teaser Trailer\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Pictures The debut of the trailer for Lady Gaga&#8216;s upcoming movie Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux was more than Kenough to beat Barbie. Sources tell Variety that the numbers for the trailer, including social engagement, were bigger than that of the first Barbie trailer, making it the biggest launch<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/12\/report-the-launch-of-lady-gagas-joker-2-trailer-was-bigger-than-barbie\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}