Clayface won the weekend box office with a $24 million domestic opening from 3,458 theaters, according to studio estimates reported by Deadline and Boxoffice Pro. The DC Studios horror film added an estimated $19 million overseas for a $43 million global start, enough to hold off A24’s You Can See Everything, which surged 25 percent in its second weekend to $19.5 million.
For anyone searching clayface box office results this weekend, here is the short answer: the movie opened at the top of the chart, and the more interesting story is how it got there.
Clayface box office numbers, day by day
The James Watkins-directed Batman spinoff earned $3.5 million in Thursday previews, then $10.6 million on Friday, $7.8 million on Saturday and $5.6 million on Sunday, per Boxoffice Pro. Its per-screen average landed at $6,940. Exit polls came back unusually strong for a horror title: an A- CinemaScore, 4.5 out of 5 stars on PostTrak, a 75 percent critics score and a 94 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
DC co-head James Gunn noted on Threads, as quoted by Deadline, that Sinners remains the only horror movie with an A CinemaScore, and that Clayface joins Get Out, Weapons and Obsession in the small club of horror films to land an A-. The turnout skewed young, with 73 percent of the audience aged 18 to 34, per Deadline.
Is Clayface a hit? What the opening actually shows
A $24 million opening would be a problem for a $200 million superhero tentpole. Clayface is not that: Boxoffice Pro reports the film’s costs ran well below recent DC releases, following “more of a Blumhouse model than a superhero model.” Grosses are not studio revenue, since theaters keep a share of ticket sales and marketing and distribution costs are not public, so opening numbers alone cannot establish profitability.
What the comparisons do show is scale. Clayface’s opening nearly matched the combined debuts of Sony’s two recent villain spinoffs, Kraven the Hunter ($11 million) and Madame Web ($15.3 million), and landed in the same range as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom ($27.7 million) and Blue Beetle ($25 million), all far more expensive productions, per Boxoffice Pro.
The weekend’s other big story: a three-hour documentary up 25 percent
You Can See Everything, the A24 documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about the Elizabeth Holmes saga, grossed $19.5 million from 2,655 theaters in weekend two, a 25 percent jump over its opening frame. The film has now earned $45.1 million domestic, already making it the sixth-highest-grossing documentary of all time behind Michael Jackson’s This Is It ($72 million), per Boxoffice Pro.
A24 opened the film in under 1,000 theaters last weekend before going wide, a platform plan Deadline reports was built to create buzz through sellouts. One rival distribution executive told Deadline more studios should copy the “tease” approach. Our earlier coverage of the film’s opening weekend platform strategy tracked how unusual that rollout was for a documentary.
Wildwood overdelivers for Laika
Third place went to Laika’s stop-motion feature Wildwood, which opened to roughly $11.6 million via Fathom Entertainment, well above the sub-$10 million tracking, per Deadline. The film holds a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and earned an A CinemaScore, rare air for any release. With no major animated competition until Disney’s Hexed next month, it has room to leg out. We covered the film’s cast and release details ahead of opening.
What this means for moviegoers
If you were waiting on word of mouth before buying Clayface tickets, audience scores came back strong: the A- CinemaScore matches Superman and beats Supergirl’s B- and The Flash’s B among recent DC releases, per Deadline, alongside a 94 percent audience rating. Next weekend has no major studio wide releases and Halloween falls on a Saturday; Boxoffice Pro calls a repeat at No. 1 “a real possibility,” a forecast rather than a result.
For context on how the film fits the DC slate, see our Clayface release date, cast and DCU breakdown. The weekend’s other holdover story, Street Fighter, fell 72 percent in its second frame to $8.6 million for a $46.9 million domestic total.
Sources: Deadline, Boxoffice Pro, AP. Updated October 25, 2026, 6:37 p.m. ET. This article follows our Editorial Standards.
