Supergirl Has DC's Quickest Plummet From Box Office Top 5, Tied With The Flash & Shazam 2

Supergirl is turning out to be box office Kryptonite.

2026’s Supergirl stars Milly Alcock in the title role as Superman’s (David Corenswet) cousin who goes on a spacefaring adventure to rescue her poisoned dog, Krypto. The movie is the second theatrical installment in the newly rebranded DC Universe, which kicked off with the 2025 hit Superman. The superhero franchise is a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe, which ran from 2013 to 2023 and saw swiftly diminishing returns throughout the early 2020s.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Supergirl is projected to earn a 3-day total of $3.8 million at the domestic box office by the end of its third weekend. This sees the movie dropping 55%, falling below Obsession (No. 7 with a 20% drop during its ninth weekend) and the new release The Invite (No. 6) to hit No. 8. This means that it only spent two weeks in the Top 5 at the domestic box office, which sees it tying for the quickest plummet from the chart for any DCU or DCEU movie.

It has tied this record with 2023’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods (a box office bomb that is the franchise’s second lowest-grossing movie behind Blue Beetle), 2023’s The Flash (another bomb, which grossed just $271.4 million against a reported budget of more than $200 million), and 2021’s The Suicide Squad (the franchise’s third lowest-grossing movie, which was compromised by a pandemic-depressed box office and a day-and-date streaming release).

Below, see a breakdown of the domestic chart position for each of the theatrically released DCU and DCEU movies during their first five weekends:

Title	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5
Man of Steel (2013)	1	3	5	7	10
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)	1	1	2	4	6
Suicide Squad (2016)	1	1	1	2	2
Wonder Woman (2017)	1	1	2	2	4
Justice League (2017)	1	2	2	2	5
Aquaman (2018)	1	1	1	2	3
Shazam! (2019)	1	1	2	5	8
Birds of Prey (2020)	1	2	3	6	8
Wonder Woman 1984 (2021)	1	1	1	2	3
The Suicide Squad (2021)	1	5	6	7	8
Black Adam (2022)	1	1	1	2	4
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)	1	2	6	8	15
The Flash (2023)	1	3	8	11	13
Blue Beetle (2023)	1	3	3	6	6
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)	1	2	3	6	6
Superman (2025)	1	1	2	4	6
Supergirl (2026)	2	4	8

This news comes in the wake of the superhero movie struggling to make an impression in the first place. Supergirl reviews have been mixed, earning it a Rotten score of 54% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. While its opening weekend was already underwhelming, seeing it debut at No. 2 behind the sophomore frame of Toy Story 5, its second weekend was downright catastrophic with a 76.8% drop that marked the third worst in history for a movie based on superhero comics (behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe release The Marvels and the DC Elseworlds title Joker: Folie à Deux).

So far, it seems like the DCEU’s diminishing returns are still impacting the DCU releases that don’t feature the brand’s marquee characters. The movie that could make or break this pattern is the upcoming Clayface, which focuses on the titular Batman villain but so far does not seem to feature Batman in any capacity. Should Clayface be met with audience indifference at the same level as Supergirl, the burgeoning franchise could be in serious financial trouble.

All in all, it seems highly unlikely that Supergirl will be able to break even at the box office. The movie’s reported break-even point is roughly $300 million, but if it follows the same trajectory as The Flash (which had a similar chart performance during its first three weekends at the domestic box office), it might only leg out to a worldwide gross of about $183 million.

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