Supergirl Box Office Gets Worse As Overseas Numbers Revised Down Again

Supergirl Box Office Gets Worse As Overseas Numbers Revised Down Again

Supergirl‘s box office problem is not holding still. Days after its weak opening, the numbers are still being revised down, and the latest cut hits the part that was already the weakest: overseas.

The international estimate has been trimmed again. Supergirl‘s overseas opening was first reported around $30 million. It has now been revised down to $25.5 million, a $4.5 million haircut.

That pulls the worldwide total down from the $68 million first reported to roughly $62.6 million, with domestic settling at $37.1 million, itself below the weekend estimates that ran as high as $40 million.

Supergirl box office grosses:

  • Domestic (59.3%): $37,102,018
  • International (40.7%): $25,500,000
  • Worldwide: $62,602,018
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Supergirl box office screenshot via BoxOfficeMojo

Supergirl Overseas Box Office Gets Revised Down Again

The repeated downgrades are getting noticed.

Box office watchers on X have been tracking each revision, flagging that Supergirl‘s overseas number had been cut yet again.

At this point, the post-by-post erosion of a summer tentpole’s box office figures has become its own talking point.

This is not the kind of attention Warner Bros. wanted after opening weekend. A studio wants the story to be about legs, holds, and positive word-of-mouth. Instead, Supergirl is still getting hit by downward revisions.

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Why The $4.5 Million Supergirl Cut Matters

The cut matters more than a few million dollars might suggest.

Both Deadline and Variety have flagged that if Supergirl stalls under $200 million worldwide, Warner Bros. faces a larger write-down on a film already bracing for a major loss.

Every overseas downgrade pushes the worldwide trajectory closer to that line. That is why a $4.5 million revision is worth paying attention to. On a hit, it would be noise. On Supergirl, it is another warning sign.

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Supergirl Is Not Landing Overseas

The overseas weakness is not a rounding error. It fits the same pattern that has defined Supergirl abroad from the start.

This is the same rejection that was building in China, and the same soft international problem that dogged Gunn’s Superman before it.

The new DC is not landing outside the United States, and Supergirl‘s shrinking foreign number is the clearest sign yet.

A bad opening is one bad weekend. A number that keeps falling days later is something else.

For Warner Bros., the worst part of Supergirl‘s box office may be that it still has not stopped getting worse.

About Will Harrigan

Will Harrigan writes about comics, movies, and pop culture for Cosmic Book News. He is a comic book and film enthusiast, with a particular interest in cosmic comics.

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