DC’s Clayface Removed From 600+ Theaters After James Gunn Departure Announcement
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Clayface is sliding away from the box office.
2026's Clayface is an R-rated body horror movie that stars Tom Rhys Harries as the titular DC Comics villain. The movie, which debuted on October 23, is the third installment in the DC Universe, which is a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe. However, the DCU itself is now in flux. It was announced on November 9 that DC Studios co-chairs and co-CEOS James Gunn and Peter Safran, who spearheaded the DCU, are being removed from their roles as of December 1 following Warner Bros. Discovery (of which it is a subsidiary) and Paramount Skydance merging to become Skydance.
Per Warner Bros., Clayface is playing on 2,284 screens at the domestic box office during its fourth weekend in theaters, which sees it being dropped from 662 theaters after playing on 2,946 screens during its third weekend. That weekend, it had already dropped from 532 screens, having debuted in 3,458 theaters and added 20 more during its sophomore weekend. This weekend therefore marks the movie's biggest theatrical drop yet.
To compare, James Gunn's 2025 movie Superman, which kicked off the DC Universe, was removed from just 393 theaters during its fourth weekend at the domestic box office. It eventually grossed $618.7 million worldwide against its reported budget of $225 million. That movie's follow-up, the 2026 bomb Supergirl, was removed from substantially more during the same frame, dropping from 1,012 screens on its way to grossing $126.4 million worldwide against a reported budget of at least $170 million.
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- Release Date
- October 23, 2026
- Runtime
- 108 Minutes
- Director
- James Watkins
- Writers
- Mike Flanagan, Hossein Amini
- Producers
- James Gunn, Lynn Harris, Matt Reeves, Peter Safran
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Tom Rhys Harries
Matt Hagen / Clayface
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Naomi Ackie
Dr. Caitlin Bates
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