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Variety reports that Clayface, the Batman supervillain's gory origin story, opened to $10.4 million from 3,458 North American theaters on Friday—an unexpectedly solid debut for a character far less mainstream than the Supergirl and Superman films also in circulation. The figure suggests audiences arrived curious about a horror-tinged take on a secondary DC figure, not because of built-in franchise weight but because the premise itself carried some gravitational pull. That is worth noting: a niche property, leaned into with conviction, can still command attention in a crowded theatrical landscape.
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