When James Gunn was first announced as the new head of DC Studios back in 2022, there were high hopes for his new cinematic universe. Gunn had come off a run of successful Guardians of the Galaxy movies in the MCU, and fans had grown tired of Zack Snyder‘s dark and dreary take on some of DC’s most beloved characters. Gunn’s DCU officially began in 2024 with the release of the animated HBO series, Creature Commandos, but it officially launched in live-action the next summer with the debut of Superman. The film was a massive hit at the box office, but things didn’t exactly follow the same path for the next DCU movie, Supergirl, which flew into theaters back in June. Supergirl proved to be the first real test for the DCU under Gunn and his co-boss Peter Safran.
Led by Milly Alcock, Supergirl came into theaters carrying a $170 million budget. This left the film with an estimated break-even point of around $350 million, but Supergirl eked out only $126 million during its global run, falling well short of early projections and finishing its run as a colossal bomb for the DCU. The third DCU film, Clayface, just began playing in theaters not long ago, and it’s already off to a much better start than Supergirl. This past weekend, Clayface opened in the spot at the box office with a $24 million domestic haul during its opening weekend. The film has since added almost $10 million, bringing its domestic total to $33 million and its international haul to $28 million, leaving its global total at $61 million heading into its second weekend in theaters.
Four teams, four completely different reasons to put yourself in danger
for strangers. This is the roster you actually belong on, what they would want from you, and what it
would cost you to stay.
You belong where the stakes are largest and the personalities are
loudest. This is a team of people who are all used to being the most important person in the
room, which is exactly why it works and exactly why it keeps nearly falling apart.
- The Avengers are not friends who became a team. They are a team that slowly and
reluctantly became friends, and you would recognise every stage of that process. - You can hold your own among big egos without needing to win every exchange, which is the
real entry requirement here. - The arguing is part of the method. This group does its best thinking mid-disagreement,
usually at volume, usually in a very expensive building. - When the sky opens, they are who shows up. You would want to be standing in that line.
You have never had the luxury of being thanked for this. The
X-Men protect a world that has never once been comfortable with them existing, and something
in you understands exactly why they keep doing it anyway.
- This is the only team on the list whose central conflict is not a villain. It is being
wanted gone by the same people they keep saving. - You know what it is to be the outsider in a room and to decide, anyway, that you will
not make yourself smaller so everyone else is comfortable. - The X-Men are the most genuine found family in comics. People arrive with nowhere else
to go and are never once asked to explain themselves. - You would not be joining for the glory. There has never been any.
You do not want colleagues, you want your people. The Titans are
the team where the friendship came first and the world-saving turned up afterwards as an
inconvenient side effect.
- Every Titan is somebody’s sidekick who decided to stop being one. That decision, not the
villain of the week, is what the team is actually about. - You would be joining people who are all working themselves out at the same time as you,
which is far less lonely than being the only one. - The Titans lose regularly. Then they eat together and come back better, which is a more
honest model of growing up than any other team here manages. - The tower would be loud, chaotic, and the first place that ever felt like yours.
You are not asking who to trust. You worked out the answer a
while ago and it was nobody in a cape. This is where you go once you have decided the people
in charge need watching, and that nobody else is going to do it.
- The Boys have no powers, no mandate and no funding. What they have is leverage,
patience, and a very high tolerance for consequences. - You are the person in the room who notices the thing everybody else has quietly agreed
not to mention. - This is not a heroic team and it has never pretended otherwise. It is a group of damaged
people doing necessary work in ways nobody would call clean. - You would not sleep well. You would keep going anyway.
Here’s How ‘Clayface’ Is Poised To Finish Its Theatrical Run
DC made Clayface for only $40 million, meaning the film needs anywhere from $80 million to $100 million to break even. With it sitting at $61 million heading into its second weekend in theaters and poised to receive a boost from good word-of-mouth reviews, it’s likely that it gets across the finish line before the end of its run. Clayface was directed by James Watkins and co-written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. Tom Rhys Harries, who featured as Power Noel in Guy Ritchie‘s The Gentlemen (2019) stars in the lead role of Matt Hagen in DCU’s Clayface movie.
Check out Clayface in theaters and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the DCU.
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