He gets right to the point.

The Hollywood Reporter continued their Directors Roundtable series with an in-depth discussion between Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips (Joker), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes). The hour-long interview covers a wide range of interesting topics about filmmaking and the entertainment industry, with a good chunk of time devoted to the current state of movies in the streaming era. Scorsese goes into what he feels has changed about the industry for better and for worse, illustrating the fact that it took his star-studded film The …

It's a blink and you'll miss it Easter egg that requires you to know Batman's small screen past.

And his answer might surprise you.

What kind of Caped Crusader would come from Arthur Fleck's gritty city?

That’s an intriguing idea.

Joker 2 seems inevitable, but Joker director Todd Phillips has still not talked with star Joaquin Phoenix about a sequel to the 2019 smash hit.

Fingers crossed.

Does the extra awards buzz bode well for Arthur Fleck’s story continuing?

It's game of the year season, so naturally we spoke almost exclusively about films this week.

Another mystery rears its head in the world of the Joker franchise.

"If we can figure it out, and if Joaquin's down to do it, we would do it."

The Joker director clears up this week's tangled web of conflicting Joker 2 reports.

Joker director Todd Phillips has a lot to celebrate about. His film, a hardboiled take on the popular DC Comics archvillain, recently became the first R-rated film to make over $1 billion. It received lots of praise from fans and industry members alike, especially for its central Joaquin Phoenix performance. And now, another celebrated filmmaker of dark narratives about broken men just publicly praised his work. As IndieWire reported, director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) wrote Phillips and his creative team an effusive letter complimenting the hell out of their work on Joker. Phillips was screening Joker in Los …

Despite a major report that surfaced yesterday morning, it appears that Joker 2 is far from a done deal. Joker director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have been talking about the idea of a sequel on and off the entire press run for the film, coming around to the notion of continuing the story—as long as the sequel could be as thematically rich and character-centric as the first movie. Phoenix even made his own posters for a Joker 2 during filming, so it sounds like the actor was keen on reprising his stunning role. So it wasn’…

Joker director Todd Phillips clears the air over conflicting reports concerning a possible sequel, saying no deal is in place just yet.

Some new information has come to light.

Whoever laughs to $1 billion, laughs hardest.

In the most unsurprising news of the week, a Joker sequel is officially in the works at Warner Bros. Not only that, but Joker co-writer and director Todd Phillips now reportedly has the permission to not only make Joker 2, but also give a different DC character a gritty, Joker-esque origin story. The financial windfall of Joker cannot be overstated. The R-rated film has now grossed over $1 billion, making it the highest grossing R-rated film in history. And Phillips himself deferred a big upfront payment for a pice of the unadjusted gross, resulting in what …

Todd Phillips has some feelings about who's responsible for Joker's success.