DC’s Supergirl Hits Colossal Milestone After James Gunn’s Superman Series Return

Published Sep 19, 2026, 8:36 PM EDT Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Supergirl is flying high on streaming after a disappointing theatrical run, and it includes the DC movie hitting a major milestone. Supergirl had a reported budget of $170 million. With that in mind, the latest movie in James Gunn's DC Universe needed to finish its box office run between $340 million and $425 million just to break even. However, despite 2025's Superman movie proving itself a massive hit for DC Studios and the fact that Milly Alcock debuted as the Girl of Steel at the end of Superman, 2026's Supergirl only managed to pull in a shy total of $126.4 million. Despite the second DCU movie's status as a box office bomb, the franchise is expected to bounce back. Alcock will next appear as Supergirl alongside her Kryptonian cousin, David Corenswet's Superman, in 2027's Man of Tomorrow, Gunn's Superman sequel. As for what DC's slate of releases holds before the House of El characters return to the big screen, Clayface, which was made for a modest budget of $40 million, seems poised to repeat the feat of fellow 2026 horror movies Backrooms and Obsession at the box office. Before that happens in October, Supergirl has just rewritten its history after hitting an important streaming milestone. Supergirl Continues To Soar On Amazon VOD Supergirl just hit the impressive milestone of 50 days on Amazon VOD's Top 25 Movies list in the United States. As such, it has been trending on the chart for nearly the entire duration the DC movie was available to buy or rent on Amazon VOD. After all, Supergirl released on digital on July 28, and there are exactly 53 days between its Amazon VOD release and today, Saturday, September 19. Supergirl now turns its eye to a daunting task, which is to join the movies that are currently over 100 days on the chart, of which there are four. Those movies are the spy thriller In the Grey, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill, with Guy Ritchie as director, at 107 days; Chris Pratt's animated video game adaptation The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, at 112 days; the 2025 Dracula, at 136 days; and Sydney Sweeney's R-rated psychological thriller The Housemaid, at a whopping 226 days. Additionally, Supergirl is currently the 20th most-watched movie on Amazon VOD in the United States, beating The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Rivals of Amziah King, Practical Magic, Jackass: Best and Last, and Dracula. It is also HBO Max's most-watched movie nationwide. The DC Hero Just Returned For James Gunn's Superman Series Supergirl's impressive milestone on Amazon VOD comes not only as the Alcock DC movie is trending on HBO Max in the US and around the world, but at a time when there is already a new Girl of Steel appearance for fans to watch. That would be Krypto Saves the Day! Season 2, which premiered alongside the Supergirl movie on HBO Max on September 10. While not canon to the DCU and not featuring Alcock back in the role, the show is directly inspired by the personalities and designs of Alcock's Supergirl, Krypto, David Corenswet's Superman, Jason Momoa's Lobo, and more. The season 2 premiere takes cues from Kara and Ruthye's space bus journey from the live-action DC movie. As such, Supergirl's new milestone comes at the perfect time. Release Date June 26, 2026 Runtime 108 minutes Director Craig Gillespie Writers Ana Nogueira Producers James Gunn, Lars P. Winther, Nigel Gostelow, Peter Safran Franchise(s) DC Universe