At $957 Million, JOKER is Now The Most Profitable Comic Book Movie of All Time

According to Forbes, director Todd Phillips’ DC film Joker has made $957 million and as it continues its journey to a billion dollars, the movie has become the most profitable comic book movie of all time.

Joker was made on a $62.5 million production budget, which means the movie has made 15.3 times the budget. That’s actually pretty insane. The previous record was set by Jim Carrey’s The Mask which earned $351 million against a budget of $23 million. That was all the way back in 1994 and with the kind of budgets that comic book movies are made on these days, it’s likely that the record for the Joker won’t be beat for a very long time.

Joker is also the third lowest budget movie to gross over $900 million, coming in behind Bohemian Rhapsody, which earned $905 million on a budget of $52 million, and the original animated The Lion King, which made $968 million on a $55 million budget.

Joker is sure to end up crossing the $1 billion worldwide mark and when that happens it will become the lowest budgeted movie to hit that milestone, surpassing Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park.

And to think, the studio didn’t even want to make this movie! You can also expect the film to be nominated for a bunch of awards when award season rolls around. It’s pretty crazy and amazing to see how well Joker has done. It proved so many people wrong.