Lady Gaga in 'shock' at poor reaction to Joker 2 as insiders reveal how her team are scrambling to distract from the flop

Lady Gaga is 'disappointed' astatine the immense flood of antagonistic reactions to Joker: Folie à Deux, with the singer's squad present keen to rapidly propulsion retired different projects to assistance distract from the furor implicit the film, insiders claim.

Todd Phillips‘ sequel was officially released successful theaters connected October 4, but contempt expectations, it bombed, raking in just nether $40 cardinal astatine the home container office, and receiving the lowest CinemaScore successful comic publication movie history.

Gaga, 38, is reportedly confused astatine the deficiency of emotion for her turn as Harleen Lee Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn, alongside Joaquin Phoenix, 49, arsenic the Joker - a relation that won him the champion histrion Oscar successful 2019 - successful the aftermath of the lasting ovation it received astatine the Venice Film Festival past month.

'Gaga is amazed by the effect to Joker 2 and is shocked that radical don’t emotion it aft the effect it received from critics earlier it premiered,' a root exclusively told DailyMail.com. 

'She enactment truthful overmuch bosom into the movie and has truthful overmuch respect for the DC comics instrumentality base.'

They added: 'Her squad is softly looking astatine different projects they tin rotation retired arsenic they privation to determination connected this from arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.'

But contempt the lackluster reception from fans, a 2nd root claimed she is not letting it deter her from returning to the large screen, with the vocalist said to beryllium eyeing up a Quentin Tarantino movie.

'She is disappointed that Joker is beauteous overmuch a bomb,' they said. 

'She thought that this movie could get her an Oscar nomination, particularly since the archetypal movie was specified a occurrence and Joaquin won an Oscar.

'She would present similar to onshore a relation successful Quentin Tarantino's adjacent and last film. Nobody knows what that is going to be, but she wants to audition. 

'She's going to lobby hard to get a gathering with him erstwhile a publication is presented, it is simply a bucket database infinitesimal for her to beryllium involved.'

Tarantino was acceptable to make The Movie Critic which would person been his tenth and last film, but connected April 17, sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the task was canceled.

The famed manager is present believed to beryllium moving up a caller task to people his last cinematic release.

Gaga, existent sanction is Stefani Germanotta, is hoping the Joker 2 flop volition conscionable beryllium a tiny blip successful her career, aft the movie received a D standing connected CinemaScore — the lowest people for a comic publication movie. 

Madame Web — which notably also flopped successful theaters earlier this year and besides received unspeakable reviews — holds the higher people of C+.

Joker notably opened with $96.2 cardinal connected its theatre merchandise successful 2019 and yet took a small implicit $1 cardinal successful the planetary container office. 

The archetypal movie - which was besides directed by Phillips - had a fund of betwixt $55 and $70 million. However, the fund much than doubled to astir $200 cardinal for Folie À Deux. 

The sequel screened during the Venice International Film Festival past month, wherever it earned a 12-minute lasting ovation, per Deadline.   

It had been projected to bring successful astir $70 cardinal - but the fig drastically dropped amid mixed reviews earlier release. 

Audiences person since shared their opinions connected the sequel, which features aggregate philharmonic sequences. 

'Joaquin Phoenix don't merit this,' wrote 1 connected X. 'What happened to the script?'

Another idiosyncratic added: 'Stop making sequels arsenic musicals if the archetypal wasn't a musical.' 

'Joker downfall truly needs to beryllium studied,' shared a third, on with a monkey staring retired a window. 

One instrumentality branded it 'bad,' adding:' It was pretentious and dull. Has the aesthetic of an arthouse movie without the substance.

'It besides insults the audience's intelligence. the songs were besides underwhelming too. They shouldn't person fto this flight to theaters.' 

Another said: 'The assemblage that loved the archetypal movie is not the aforesaid assemblage moving to spot musicals. This was a gigantic mistake from measurement 1.' 

Many societal media users person besides slammed the movie's last scene, which saw Phoenix's Arthur Fleck brutally stabbed to decease by a chap inmate who could successful information by the existent Joker.

But others did leap successful in defence of the film, with 1 hailing it 'amazing.'

'100% arsenic divisive arsenic radical are making it retired to be,' they continued. 'I emotion that the movie didn’t effort to beryllium a accepted sequel, and afloat committed to the storytelling they presented. It ne'er deviated to beryllium a movie afloat of Easter eggs oregon immoderate different assemblage pleasing aspects.'

Another idiosyncratic said: 'I kinda loved Joker 2. I loved however it was structured arsenic a meta-exploration of the archetypal film’s fandom and the philharmonic elements were a batch of fun.'

One idiosyncratic claimed the movie is 'getting cosmopolitan hatred contempt being much absorbing and originative than thing marvel has done successful years is expected.'

'Joker 2 is genuinely specified a clever movie which carries the quality survey format of the archetypal movie into the 2nd successful a mode which, surprisingly, volition level you by the end,' declared another. 'I'm astounded reception is this atrocious due to the fact that this is SUCH a clever movie.'

A video of Gaga and Phoenix's awkward absorption to being asked if Folie à Deux was 'everything they expected' went viral amid the backlash.

For a fewer seconds, the 2 stars sat successful soundlessness arsenic they some waited for the different to reply the question.

'Tell them however you feel, Joaquin,' Gaga said to her costar arsenic she held retired a fake microphone successful beforehand of him.

'It's truthful hard to speech astir but I deliberation we consciousness similar we achieved what we acceptable retired to do,' helium replied.