DC’s horror gamble has paid off. Clayface crossed 100 million dollars at the global box office in its third weekend, reaching about 109 million dollars worldwide — 56.6 million dollars domestic and 52.4 million dollars international, according to Warner Bros. figures reported on 8–9 November.
With a reported production budget of about 40 to 44 million dollars, the film has likely broken even theatrically already. It is on track for a final global run of 130 to 150 million dollars, which would make it the highest-grossing DCU release of 2026, passing Supergirl at 126.7 million dollars.
It took about 16 days to reach 100 million dollars — slower than Superman, which did it in three days, and Supergirl, which took ten — but it did so while losing 532 North American theatres in its third weekend, dropping from 3,458 to 2,946, and while facing Godzilla Minus Zero and The Cat in the Hat.
Directed by James Watkins from a script by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, the R-rated horror film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, also known as Clayface, and Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlin Bates. It opened on 23 October 2026 at No. 1, with 24 million dollars domestic and 43 million dollars global.
Audiences have liked what they saw. The film holds a 78 per cent Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and an A- CinemaScore from opening-night audiences — strong marks for a horror film built around one of Batman’s stranger villains.
Clayface is the kind of film that was never supposed to be a hit: a mid-budget horror spin on a comic-book villain, released into a crowded autumn. Instead it has quietly become one of DC’s most profitable releases of the year.
It has been a huge weekend at the box office, from Godzilla Minus Zero’s record opening to The Cat in the Hat’s strong second place. Clayface crossing 100 million dollars is the weekend’s quietest success story — and one of its most impressive.
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