Supergirl‘s opening weekend keeps finding new lows, and the latest one is in China.
Per unconfirmed figures circulating from box office trackers on X, Supergirl opened to around $311,000 on Friday in Mainland China, one of the world’s biggest movie markets.
These numbers are coming from social media trackers, not the studio or an official reporting service, so they should be treated as early estimates. But if they are close, the result is ugly.
Supergirl Reportedly Opens To Just $311K In China
That reported $311,000 Friday start puts Supergirl below Sony’s Kraven the Hunter, which opened to $774,000 in China.
It is also a tiny fraction of what James Gunn’s Superman managed in its own China bow last year, when it opened to $2.4 million.
The only recent superhero opening Supergirl reportedly beats is Madame Web, which opened to $284,000 and became one of the poster children for modern comic book movie flops.
So yes, Supergirl may have cleared Madame Web. Barely. That is not exactly a victory lap.
Supergirl Falls To 8th With Roughly $700K Over Two Days
By Saturday, trackers had Supergirl down in 8th place for the day, with a reported two-day haul of roughly $700,000. It’s also rumored Chinese theaters are yanking the film.
For a DC movie, that is a brutal number. This is not some tiny market being cherry-picked for a bad headline. China has long been one of the major international territories studios look to when a blockbuster needs help overseas. Aquaman made nearly $300 million back in 2018.
Supergirl is not finding that help there.
Backrooms Reportedly Crushing Supergirl In China
The more embarrassing comparison is on the same chart.
Backrooms, the low-budget horror movie adapted from Kane Parsons’ YouTube series, opened the same day and is reportedly out-grossing the DC tentpole in China by several times over.
One tracker is projecting Backrooms cruises past $10 million in China.
An original horror film from a YouTube creator outdrawing a studio superhero movie is exactly the kind of shift we have been writing about.
Audiences are not automatically showing up for the cape logo anymore. The brand does not carry the movie by itself. Backrooms is also so popular it’s getting a re-release with added footage.
The Stealth Release Excuse Makes It Look Worse
There is one fair caveat: Supergirl reportedly received what observers are calling a stealth release in China, with little to no marketing behind it (a Chinese trailer and spot was released prior to release).
A quiet release usually posts quiet numbers, so this is not simply a case of Chinese audiences turning out in force and rejecting the movie.
But that excuse only goes so far. In some ways, it makes the situation look worse.
We wrote back in December that China was showing almost no appetite for the DCU or Supergirl. A studio that expected a real result there does not bury the release. The minimal rollout says the same thing the tracking did.
Warner Bros. did not appear to treat China like a market where Supergirl could break out. Based on the early numbers, that caution was justified.
Another Market Where Supergirl Couldn’t Recover
This also extends a larger problem for the DCU.
Gunn’s Superman, the movie meant to reset the entire franchise, held up at home but came in soft overseas. When the cornerstone underperforms internationally, a spinoff built around a less familiar character has even less room to survive.
In China, that weakness showed up fast.
None of this lands in isolation. Supergirl already opened to $40 million domestically and lost the weekend to Toy Story 5, while drawing a B- from the audience that actually bought tickets.
Now China looks like one more market where the movie is not going to make up the difference. Fans are already being blamed for the failure.
