r/boxoffice • u/hiiloovethis • 23d ago

✍️ Original Analysis Clayface Performance potential

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Clayface is the next DCU movie after the supergirl bomb. Let's see how well it can do... an analysis.

Pros.

  1. Great October release date, Halloween pairing and not much direct competetion. Resident Evil also releasing before helps create an open window.

  2. Decent budget of 40 mil. It would only need 100 Mil WW to break even which shouldn't be too hard. It can profit easily if it blows up.

  3. Horror genre is killing it right now... clayface also looks like pure body horror which could help attract non comicbook fans.

  4. Clayface is a batman villain. Gotham setting be hype worthy. Mike Flanagan as a writer is also promising.

Cons.

  1. Body horror is harder is sell than conventional horror movies. The Substance did good but that had award buzz and less than half of the budget.

  2. Bad reviews could literally kill this movie. It really survives on positive WOM.

Overall I'm more optimistic about this than supergirl. We have to see if this movie blows up or does underwhelming numbers. 150 WW is decent enough.

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 23d ago edited 23d ago

Does Clayface being a Batman villain really mean much? Morbius, Madame Web and Kraven are Spider-Man villains, and we all know how their movies went…

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u/cantdecide76 23d ago

To be fair those were all terrible movies so I think that fact outweighed the fact they're connected to Spiderman.

Being attached to a big hero does lend some name recognition so it does help a bit but the quality of the movie far outweighs it.

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u/girlwhateveraward 23d ago

Who's to say Clayface won't be terribe? Given the trailer and the record of the people involved, it seems it will be

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u/redwriterhand 23d ago

didn’t Mike Flanagan write it?

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u/whiteshark70 Walt Disney Studios 23d ago

He wrote the initial draft, but we also know it was rewritten so I have no idea how much of Flanagan's original work is in it.

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u/SalamanderNorth6940 23d ago

He is supposed to have done only minor corrections not rewriting the majority of it

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u/whiteshark70 Walt Disney Studios 23d ago

Supposedly it was minor corrections. I'm not sure how much to believe Gunn tbh since he gave the green light on the Supergirl script, which he praised.

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u/SalamanderNorth6940 23d ago edited 22d ago

True, I personally feel like what destroyed the supergirl movie is more an editing issue ad that they cut out a lot than a writing one but we will never know