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Television • 20 Jun

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux

Joker: Folie à Deux delivers songs for swinging psychos

Director Todd Phillips offers a genre-defying mix of Arthur Freed and Arthur Fleck for a claustrophobic sing-song inside the head of Batman's most infamous adversary.

Movie Review • 03 Oct 24

Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in Wolfs, screening out of competition at the festival

Venice film festival unveils star-studded line-up

Stars including Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, and Nicole Kidman are expected on the red carpet at Venice's film festival this year as 21 films compete for the coveted Golden Lion, organisers have said.

Movies • 24 Jul 24

Brendan Gleeson in the trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux Screengrabs: Warner Bros Pictures

Brendan Gleeson appears in Joker: Folie à Deux trailer

Fans have been given a glimpse of Irish star Brendan Gleeson in the new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux.

Movies • 24 Jul 24

Joker: Folie à Deux is due for release on Friday 4 October

Joker: Folie à Deux trailer unveiled

Joaquin Phoenix reprises his Oscar-winning role as the deranged villain The Joker opposite Lady Gaga as the queen of chaos Harley Quinn in the first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux.

Movies • 10 Apr 24

Lady Gaga - The singer posted a photo on Instagram on Tuesday, showing herself and co-star Joaquin Phoenix

Lady Gaga shares photo from Joker sequel

Lady Gaga has shared a first look at her appearance in the sequel to The Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux.

Movies • 16 Feb 23

Brendan Gleeson - No details at present on the character he will play in Joker: Folie à Deux

Brendan Gleeson joins cast of Joker sequel

It is reported that Brendan Gleeson is to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in the Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux.

Movies • 01 Sep 22

Lady Gaga is reported to be circling the role of Harley Quinn, the DC Comics anti-hero who is also The Joker's foil and love interest

Lady Gaga in talks about Joker sequel - now a musical

Lady Gaga is reported to be in early talks to join star Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips for Joker: Folie à Deux - a musical sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 film.

Movies • 14 Jun 22

Sequel to 2019's Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix is in the works

Joker director Phillips reveals sequel is in the works

Todd Phillips has revealed that a sequel to his 2019 Joker film is in the works.

Movies • 08 Jun 22

Eimear Noone - "A very, very wonderful and surreal experience"

Oscars conductor there to inspire 'little Irish girls'

Galway-born composer Eimear Noone, who made history at the Oscars on Sunday night when she became the first female conductor in Academy Awards history, has said she "wanted little Irish girls to see it and just go, 'Yay! I can do that!".

Movies • 12 Feb 20

Renée Zellweger wins Best Actress for Judy

The Oscars 2020 - as they happened

It was the biggest movie night of the year, and we were following all the winners.

oscars • 10 Feb 20

The Oscars 2020 - who will and should win

Another year gone, and once again we're giving our two cents on Sunday night's shindig!

oscars • 07 Feb 20

Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix - Awards success continues

Zellweger, Phoenix boost Oscar chances with SAG wins

Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix boosted their Oscar chances considerably after their wins at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

Entertainment • 14 Feb 20

Irish eyes on Saoirse Ronan as Oscar nominees announced

Irish eyes will once again be on Saoirse Ronan when the Oscar nominations are announced in the US at lunchtime.

Movies • 13 Jan 20

Irish stars Saoirse and Jessie among BAFTA nominees

Irish actors Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley are among the nominees for this year's BAFTAs, while Joker leads the way after scoring a total of 11 nods.

Movies • 07 Jan 20

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won three awards on the night: Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Best Screenplay for Tarantino and Best Supporting Actor for Brad Pitt

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 1917 big Globes winners

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and wartime thriller 1917 were the big film winners at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills on Sunday night, with disappointment for Irish star Saoirse Ronan in the acting categories.

Movies • 06 Jan 20

Joker sequel in the works with director Todd Phillips

A sequel to the hit film Joker is reportedly in the works after the first movie from director Todd Phillips proved to be a critical and box office success.

Movie • 20 Nov 19

Movie Review Round-Up - The New Releases

Shaun the Sheep is baa-ck in cinemas this week, the new Maleficent is on screens, and Zombieland is back from the dead for another sequel. There's also sublime Irish fare in Dark Lies the Island.

Movies • 18 Oct 19

Zoë Kravitz - Following in the footsteps of, among others, Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer by taking on the Catwoman role

Zoë Kravitz to play Catwoman in new Batman film

Big Little Lies star Zoë Kravitz has been cast as Catwoman opposite Robert Pattinson's Batman in the Caped Crusader's next big screen outing.

Movies • 15 Oct 19

Joker has last laugh with box office record weekend

Despite mixed reviews Joker has had the last laugh as the movie surges into the box office record books.

Movies • 07 Oct 19

Joaquin Phoenix turns in an Oscar-worthy performance in Joker

Movie Review Round-Up - The New Releases

The wait is over - Joker is here.

Movies • 04 Oct 19

Joker is chilling, unnerving and absolutely brilliant

Joaquin Phoenix turns in an Oscar worthy performance as a comic-book villain whose power once lay in his ambiguous mythology, but has now been bolstered in Joker by an unflinching deep dive into his origins.

Movie Review • 26 Sep 19

Warner Bros responds to Joker film violence controversy

Warner Bros has responded to criticism of the upcoming Joker film, including from the families of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012, saying the film is not an "endorsement of real-world violence".

Movies • 25 Sep 19

Joker wins Golden Lion award at Venice Film Festival

Todd Phillips' Joker has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.

Joker • 08 Sep 19

Joaquin Phoenix - "You start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that amount of time"

Phoenix says Joker weight loss was no laughing matter

Joaquin Phoenix has said he started "to go mad" while losing almost four stone in order to play The Joker in writer-director Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Old School) chilling new study of Batman's arch-nemesis.

Movies • 01 Sep 19