The result is that Joker managed to make $93.5 million domestically, and $234 million globally during its first three days in theaters, and those are record setting numbers.
Admittedly it’s not exactly like they are long-standing records, but they are records all the same.
It was just last year that Ruben Fleischer’s Venom set the new high water mark for the tenth month of the year, making $80.3 million in North America, and $125 million overseas, but now those numbers have been eclipsed.
It’s a particularly interesting trend to see these kinds of figures in October, as David Gordon Green’s Halloween also put up some blockbuster tickets sales in 2018, so we may start seeing a trend of studios putting out more high-profile releases during this time of year.