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Clayface Earns $43M Global Opening, Paramount-Warner Bros. Secures Second Consecutive No. 1 Weekend

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In Short: Clayface, a Batman villain film, earned $43 million globally in its opening weekend, securing Paramount-Warner Bros. a second consecutive No. 1 weekend.

The film, starring Tom Rhys Harries, opened to $19 million in North America and $17.8 million internationally from 76 territories.

In Spain, Clayface saw a $292,000 opening from 232 cinemas, with an 8.4 rating on FilmAffinity, making it the highest-rated release of the year.

Clayface's opening in Italy exceeded Supergirl's first weekend of $717,700, and in Korea, it surpassed the $422,000 first weekend of Supergirl.

The film's opening in Australia is shaping up for a $567,000 opening, ahead of Laika’s Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings, and The Boxtrolls.

Clayface outperformed Other Mommy in the UK ($2.6 million), Australia ($1.3 million), France ($1.2 million), and Brazil ($879,000), but underperformed in Mexico ($1.4 million) and Italy ($873,000).

The film's lean budget of around $50 million, compared to the $170 million budget of Supergirl, positions it well for profitability through ancillary markets.

Clayface earned an A CinemaScore and holds a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 97 percent rating from audiences.

Meanwhile, You Can See Everything, an A24 documentary, grossed $19.5 million in its second weekend, a 25 percent increase over its first weekend.

You Can See Everything's strong performance is rare for a documentary, with a 28 percent increase from its launch weekend.

DC Studios found success with streaming shows like Peacemaker and Lanterns, which may help offset the film's theatrical performance.

Background

What's confirmed

• The film, starring Tom Rhys Harries, opened to $19 million in North America and $17.8 million internationally from 76 territories.
• In Spain, Clayface saw a $292,000 opening from 232 cinemas, with an 8.4 rating on FilmAffinity, making it the highest-rated release of the year.
• Clayface's opening in Italy exceeded Supergirl's first weekend of $717,700, and in Korea, it surpassed the $422,000 first weekend of Supergirl.
• The film's opening in Australia is shaping up for a $567,000 opening, ahead of Laika’s Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings, and The Boxtrolls.
• Clayface outperformed Other Mommy in the UK ($2.6 million), Australia ($1.3 million), France ($1.2 million), and Brazil ($879,000), but underperformed in Mexico ($1.4 million) and Italy ($873,000).
• The film's lean budget of around $50 million, compared to the $170 million budget of Supergirl, positions it well for profitability through ancillary markets.
• Clayface earned an A CinemaScore and holds a 100 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 97 percent rating from audiences.
• Meanwhile, You Can See Everything, an A24 documentary, grossed $19.5 million in its second weekend, a 25 percent increase over its first weekend.
• You Can See Everything's strong performance is rare for a documentary, with a 28 percent increase from its launch weekend.
• DC Studios found success with streaming shows like Peacemaker and Lanterns, which may help offset the film's theatrical performance.

What's still developing

• The global opening here in pure dollars isn’t far from what Universal’s Other Mommy from Blumhouse Atomic Monster did a couple of weeks ago, that being a $45.6M start (but in 50 territories).
• As we told you, North America ate floor with a -72% plummet of $8.6M.
• By the way, that Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim co-directed nonfiction film doesn’t start opening abroad until Nov. 12 in Australia, followed by UK on Nov. 20 via A24.
• The foreign start for that D+ horror movie was $17.8M while Clayface here was $19M from 76 territories.
• The newly combined Paramount-Warner Bros merger (aka Skydance) saw its second back-to-back No.
• Netherlands via The Searchers is looking at $168K with a Saturday gross ahead of ParaNorman, Kubo, Missing Link and Coraline.
• Clayface centers on a Batman villain that has not previously been a household name for general audiences and, though not matching the level of opening for a typical superhero feature, is well-positioned to ultimately hit a profit through ancillary markets, according to FranchiseRe.
• The A24 film, which has been the focus of awards buzz, becomes the rare title to gross more in its second weekend than its first — with a 25 percent increase over its initial frame — and gives the studio the second-biggest weekend for a documentary since Fahrenheit 9/11′ s $23.9 million in the summer of 2004.
• This would represent a notable start for the independent original animated film that sees Fathom Entertainment handling distribution, and it nearly doubles the opening of Laika’s previous release when Missing Link debuted with $5.9 million in 2019.
• After winning the box office battle last weekend, Paramount and Legendary’s Street Fighter landed $8.6 million with a roughly 72 percent decline to move its domestic cume to $46.9 million.
• You Can See Everything went wide Friday in its second weekend and built on its hot opening, collecting $19.5 million from 2,600 North American locations to bring its domestic sum to $45.1 million.
• It was made more affordably than some of the villain and antihero spinoff films in recent years, including Venom: The Last Dance ($51 million launch on a reported $120 million production budget) and Kraven the Hunter ($11 million opening weekend on a $110 million budget), both Sony releases from 2024.

Sources

• Deadlinelink
• The Hollywood Reporterlink
• Varietylink
• WarpBeat — background on Clayface Surpasses You Can See Everything at Box Office link
• WarpBeat — background on Clayface Leads Box Office With $24M, You Can See Everything Follows With $20M link
• Wikipedia — background on Clayface link
• Wikipedia — background on Warner Bros. link
• DC / YouTube — video link