James Gunn’s Clayface Is Close to Breaking Even

DC Studios’ Clayface has reached $109 million at the worldwide box office after three weekends. The horror film is closing in on Supergirl, which had a production budget roughly four times as large.

According to Box Office Mojo, James Watkins’ film earned $56.6 million in the US and Canada and another $52.4 million overseas.

Clayface cost $40 million to $44 million to produce. Under the common rule of thumb that a film needs to gross about two and a half times its budget to break even, it has approached the upper end of the estimated $100 million to $110 million range.

The result is a bright spot for DC Studios, especially compared with Supergirl, which grossed $125 million during its entire theatrical run against a production budget of around $170 million. Clayface needs another $16 million to match that worldwide total and show that niche projects can succeed without huge budgets. DC Studios appears to recognize that as well: studio co-head Peter Safran has already indicated that Clayface was only the beginning.