Disastrous DC record caps Supergirl’s box office run
Supergirl’s theatrical run has sputtered to a close, and it’s bagged the sort of DC record you know Warner Bros. would rather bury.
Right, so Supergirl has crashed, burned, and left a fairly embarrassing mark on Warner Bros. and the DC film stable in 2026. Not exactly what they had in mind when they were greenlighting superhero fare, but here we are—numbers don’t lie, and these are pretty grim.
Supergirl's worldwide box office take sits at just $125.9 million, the weakest showing for any live-action DC film since 2010.
For context, that’s worse than Blue Beetle (which also struggled, closing out at $130 million worldwide), and even behind Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which managed about $133.5 million. These weren’t exactly juggernauts, and yet Supergirl still couldn’t get past them.
How Bad Is It, Exactly?
The film’s totals are about as low as major studio superhero films get in 2026: $125.9 million worldwide, with only $72.1 million of that coming from the US and the rest scattered across international markets. That opening weekend in America wasn’t even catastrophic—$37.1 million—but the fall-off after that was steep. In the end, domestic crowds made up 57% of what little the film earned, with everywhere else adding up to roughly 43%.
In case you want the regional breakdown for the international numbers:
- Australia: $4.2 million (Asia Pacific's best showing, for what that's worth)
- UK: $7.8 million (topping European receipts)
- Mexico: $4.7 million (highest for Latin America)
- Japan: $2.09 million
- South Korea: $967,000
- China: $800,000 (yes, that's all they managed in the world's largest film market)
The one small mercy for the studio is that Supergirl still managed to outperform some of DC’s proper catastrophes from years past: Jonah Hex ($10.9 million in 2010), Catwoman ($82.1 million back in 2004), or the dismal Steel ($1.8 million in 1997, a number so low it barely registers). Still—no one at Warner Bros. is putting this film on a pedestal.
If you’re after technicalities: Supergirl clocks in at a brisk 1 hour and 48 minutes, and wears its action/adventure/sci-fi tags honestly enough. It hit cinemas in the Asia Pacific region on 24 June and then rolled out elsewhere, with the main US premiere date 26 June 2026. Distribution was handled the usual way via Warner Bros., for all the good it did them in this instance.