‘Supergirl’ Saturday Numbers Are Worse Than ‘Joker: Folie à Deux,’ and the Weekend Total Tells the Whole Story

The Saturday walk-up numbers for ‘Supergirl‘ have landed, and according to @GlobalBoxOffice, they came in somewhere between $10 million and $11 million domestically, a figure that is worse than ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ managed on its own first Saturday.

For a film that arrived with the full weight of DC Studios’ biggest promotional campaign ever behind it, that comparison is a genuinely sobering data point.

The full opening weekend is now tracking toward approximately $40 million domestic, with a global total hovering around $75 million from 78 overseas markets across 40,000 screens, and a B- CinemaScore that sits below every DC film in recent history except ‘Joker: Folie à Deux,’ which received a D. The CinemaScore alone signals that the people who did show up were not particularly enthusiastic, which has significant implications for word-of-mouth through the coming weeks.

A PostTrak definite recommend score of just 52% compounds the concern, sitting well below what studio tentpoles of this size typically need to sustain momentum over multiple weekends. The film’s Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 57% represents the lowest for any DCU release to date by a significant margin, and while the 76% audience score is healthier by comparison, it is not nearly enough to counteract a CinemaScore that now ranks among the worst in DC movie history.

The demographic breakdown is telling its own story. Men over 25 led ticket purchases at 41%, while the Gen Z and Gen Alpha audiences that the film’s marketing was specifically designed to court, through Ulta Beauty partnerships and digital activations, came in at just 18% for men under 25 and 15% for women under 25. As analysts have noted, you generally need at least three key demographic groups to turn a superhero film into a genuine hit, and the under-25 audience simply did not show up.

The weekend puts ‘Supergirl’ in the same uncomfortable bracket as DC’s other commercial disappointments. For context, ‘Superman,’ the film this franchise was built around just a year ago, debuted to $125 million last summer and closed at $618 million globally. The gap between those two benchmarks reflects the degree to which ‘Supergirl’ struggled to convert goodwill toward the DCU brand into actual ticket sales.

Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El is confirmed to return in next summer’s ‘Man of Tomorrow,’ meaning her future in the franchise is not in jeopardy from this result alone. But the opening weekend makes clear that Warner Bros. and DC Studios face a real challenge in recalibrating audience expectations ahead of what comes next.

Analysts have pointed to the release date as a contributing factor, with ‘Supergirl’ sandwiched between ‘Toy Story 5’ and an incoming wave of major July releases including ‘Minions and Monsters’ and ‘The Odyssey,’ giving the film little breathing room to build the kind of sustained momentum that might have softened a soft opening. The lesson from this weekend, expensive and clear, is that not every DCU chapter carries the same gravitational pull as the one that launched it.

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