Clayface Looks Like a Win for the DCU After Earning $43 Million in Box Office Opening Weekend

Clayface looks set up to be a win for the DCU after securing the top spot at the box office with an estimated global haul of $43 million.

It's a strong start for the low-budget DCU film, split between $24 million domestically and $19 million internationally. The opening weekend total falls toward the higher end of early projections as audiences showed up to see Tom Rhys Harries bring a twisted and often overlooked Batman villain to the big screen.

With brutal body horror elements in a story that sees the birth of its titular character, Clayface follows Matt Hagen as he attempts to rebuild his life after a horrible attack leaves his face scarred. Starring Harries, directed by James Watkins, and written by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, this latest DCU movie took viewers into the darkest corners of James Gunn and Peter Safran's universe they've seen yet, with a pretty hard-R rating.

It's for these reasons that the DCU's …