The past play of June was expected to beryllium a immense 1 for the DCU, with Milly Alcock’s Supergirl taking formation successful theaters, bolstered by the cigar-puffing chaos of Jason Momoa’s Lobo. Unfortunately for each involved, the Maiden of Might took a whooping astatine the container office, with Toy Story 5 winning retired by a wide margin and maintaining Buzz and Jessie’s #1 spot from the erstwhile week. Surprisingly enough, James Gunn’s DC Studios co-chair Peter Safran has already spoken retired astir the lackluster results.
Following weeks of drooping ticket-sale projections, Supergirl’s archetypal play of merchandise brought successful $38 cardinal domestically, arsenic good arsenic an further $30 cardinal from astir the globe. That $68 cardinal full is evidently obscurity adjacent the film’s reported $175 cardinal budget, and it would instrumentality Obsession-levels of word-of-mouth recommendations for the superhero flick to prevention look successful follow-up weeks.
Peter Safran didn’t precisely sugarcoat the fiscal details erstwhile addressing the concern successful a connection shared with the New York Times, but helium besides didn’t propulsion each of his hairsbreadth retired owed to stress. As helium enactment it:
While Supergirl didn’t conscionable our container bureau expectations, it’s conscionable 1 constituent of a broader, semipermanent strategy astatine DC Studios that we stay assured in.
Peter Safran
I bash deliberation it's meaningful that Peter Safran acknowleged the workplace execs' expectations being defied by debased assemblage turnout, and that helium didn't effort to rotation it arsenic a nett affirmative oregon anything. Gloating is evidently retired of the question, but successful 2026, I would overmuch alternatively perceive a plain-Jane, down-the-middle absorption than thing skewing hyperbolic successful either direction.
To that end, I besides admit the afloat expected assurance that Supergirl's container bureau isn't going to implode DC Studios, and that the aboriginal is inactive looking bright. (Or astatine slightest the skyline is, if not the constituent successful the deeper aboriginal aft Paramount takes implicit Warner Bros.) The operation "sophomore slump" wasn't invented with this movie, and it won't beryllium the past Hollywood franchise merchandise to get tagged with it. 
The Pressure Is Now On Clayface, But It's Not Nearly As Much Pressure
Peter Safran mentioned DC Studios' "broader, semipermanent strategy," but I deliberation adjacent helium would hold that the DCU's semipermanent occurrence requires the fig of profitable releases to beryllium higher than the fig of non-profitable releases. (Which isn't to accidental Supergirl can't inactive marque immoderate benignant of a nett someday.) So present each eyes are connected the nearest upcoming DCU movie, the adjacent much outside-the-box Clayface.
Being an R-rated assemblage fearfulness is automatically moving against Clayface, astatine slightest successful presumption of four-quadrant box-office potential. (As a fearfulness nut, I'm drooling retired of my faceholes for it.) Having a lesser-known pb similar Tom Rhys Harries puts a headdress connected the scope this mightiness have. Howeverrr...
Going the fearfulness way without A-list stars means manager James Watkins could marque Clayface for a reported fund of astir $40 million, acold little than what those Kryptonians' movies cost, and theoretically acold easier to marque backmost during and aft its October debut. So determination are decidedly reasons to consciousness bully astir this movie's chances careless of what Supergirl did.
For what it's worth, I'd springiness Supergirl a brushed 3/5 stars. I truly enjoyed the characters and world-building, and deliberation the ending was a large mode to acceptable up Kara in Man of Tomorrow. (Krem is simply a zany lunatic.) On the flip side, I wasn't astir arsenic into a batch of the absorption and communicative beats, truthful it's much of an up-and-down acquisition than straightforward enjoyment.
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