Warner Bros. is currently bracing for huge losses as Supergirl nosedives at the box office worldwide. A theatrical loss exceeding $100 million is projected to happen, which is a brutal result for a film meant to build on the momentum of last year’s successful Superman reboot. The DC adventure has suffered rapid audience erosion and theater removal, pushing it toward one of the worst financial outcomes for a DC film in recent memory.
Supergirl box office drops by another 58%
Domestic ticket sales collapsed by 58.6% during the film’s third weekend. Supergirl scraped together just $3.56 million from July 10 to 12, down from the $8.6 million it earned a week earlier (via Box Office Mojo). Exhibitors responded decisively. Ahead of Friday’s showings, cinemas yanked the movie from 1,018 locations, shrinking its footprint to 2,584 theatres. The remaining screens delivered a meagre $1,377 per venue.
Supergirl’s Friday’s box office performance alone exposed the scale of the rejection. The $1.1 million single-day gross crumbled 69.4% from the previous Friday’s $3.6 million. Within the last two decades of theatrical-exclusive DC releases, only Joker: Folie à Deux posted a worse third Friday (via Cosmic Book).
The domestic total after three weekends sits at $66 million. International markets have chipped in $49.4 million, creating a $115.4 million global tally. Those numbers fall catastrophically short of the investment. Warner Bros. and DC Studios reportedly used $170 million for production and committed another $120 million to marketing.
Moreover, the opening weekend had offered brief hope. Launched on June 26 across 3,602 locations, Supergirl pulled in $37.1 million domestically, averaging a healthy $10,300 per screen. Optimism vanished within days. The second weekend brought a vertiginous 76.8% plunge, making just $8.6 million from the identical theater count. By weekend three, the film had exited the domestic top five entirely.
It’s now forecast to have a domestic finish around $100 million and a global finish between $200 million and $210 million. Even those benchmarks, which require steadier holds than the film has managed so far, translate to a theatrical loss of $100 million to $120 million.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.
