'Fantastic Four' Tops 'Superman' Opening, Second-Largest of the Year (forbes.com) 26
Marvel's Fantastic Four: First Steps "raked in about $57 million at the domestic box office for its opening day, according to multiple outlets," reports Forbes.
That haul makes it "the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year after they announced a reduction in film and TV show quantity to focus on quality." The roughly $57 million "Fantastic Four: First Steps" generated at the domestic box office Friday fell narrowly short of the opening day for "A Minecraft Movie" ($57.11 million) and just topped opening day for DC Comics rival "Superman" ($56.1 million), according to Variety. The film has netted about $106 million globally after securing $49.2 million overseas, setting itself up for an opening weekend of around $125 million, the same figure achieved by "Superman" earlier this month.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is receiving praise from critics and fans alike, boasting an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.6/10 on IMDb... With its opening weekend alone, "Fantastic Four: First Steps" out-earned the entire domestic run of "Fantastic Four" (2015), an adaptation of the heroes that flopped hard at the domestic box office ($56.1 million) and received poor ratings...
Marvel's next movie is slated to release almost a full year from now, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day hitting theaters next summer before Avengers: Doomsday in December.
That haul makes it "the year's second-largest opening day so far and a win for Marvel and Disney about a year after they announced a reduction in film and TV show quantity to focus on quality." The roughly $57 million "Fantastic Four: First Steps" generated at the domestic box office Friday fell narrowly short of the opening day for "A Minecraft Movie" ($57.11 million) and just topped opening day for DC Comics rival "Superman" ($56.1 million), according to Variety. The film has netted about $106 million globally after securing $49.2 million overseas, setting itself up for an opening weekend of around $125 million, the same figure achieved by "Superman" earlier this month.
Fantastic Four: First Steps is receiving praise from critics and fans alike, boasting an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.6/10 on IMDb... With its opening weekend alone, "Fantastic Four: First Steps" out-earned the entire domestic run of "Fantastic Four" (2015), an adaptation of the heroes that flopped hard at the domestic box office ($56.1 million) and received poor ratings...
Marvel's next movie is slated to release almost a full year from now, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day hitting theaters next summer before Avengers: Doomsday in December.
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They're recycling comic books as movies.
How much "originality" is there going to be?
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I don't know about "wokeness" but I definitely don't like what most of the younger generations do. Millennials and GenZ stuff is just awful. It's very lazily put together with no originality.
Obligatory South Park episode (which is presently unavailable to watch for free, due to Paramount being a ginormous sack of dicks). [cc.com]
You can always take those old records off the shelf and sit and listen to 'em by yourself. There's no shame in it. Hell, I've been re-watching ST:DS9 lately.
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See: CRT. For CRT see SJW. For SJW, see Politically Correct. For Politically Correct, see Ni99er lover.
Basically if someone makes you feel bad for being a big ol' racist piece of shit, that's "Woke". It's an attempt to insult people who make you feel bad because you're an asshole.
FWIW, the official definition, per the lawyer of Florida Governor DeSantis, is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them" (https://www.fox13news.com/news/what-does-woke-mean-gov-des
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Oh noes!!! We have to treat people with respect again! How fucking awful! Why can't we just be openly Nazi sympathizers and want dark skinned people arrested by masked soldiers, and kick the odd trans around for giggles? Sociopathy is sooooo great.
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Please! (Score:3)
Please, for the love of God or whatever you do or don’t worship, NO MORE SUPERHERO MOVIES!
Studios like money (Score:2)
Past performance has shown superhero movies to be profitable, so they'll keep doing them until a bunch of them in a row lose a shit ton of money.
The merchandising is very lucrative for superhero movies, sometimes a revenue higher than the film itself. And harvesting comic book back catalog for ideas is way more straightforward than creating characters from scratch (like Pixar and other animation studios do, who also play the merchandising game to great success).
Spaceballs pointed much this out in the 1980's
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Please, for the love of God or whatever you do or don’t worship, NO MORE SUPERHERO MOVIES!
Nobody is forcing you to watch it. Superhero movies can be fun, but IMHO this just looks like another *meh* reboot, so I'm in no rush to spend money to see it. I can wait for the WEB-DL to hit the high seas.
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Why not? There are 500-600 movies released every year in the USA alone. What is it to you if a tiny handful of them are superhero movies? You could ... I don't know... not ... watch them?
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It's not like you have to go watch them.
Every damn one? (Score:2)
Looks like they've made live-action remakes of just about every cartoon I watched as a kid. Even the bad ones. And people pay good money to see these. What's next? A Josie and the Pussycats movie? Can't wait.
They already tried that (Score:2)
Including what? (Score:2)
They've rebooted FF after only one movie, what, like four times?
Are that including all those together in the total, or just the most recent one?
How many times have the rebooted Superman lately?
These things get rebooted more than my computer. It's hard to keep track of what is going on with them.
Yet again (Score:1)
We have yet another remake, reboot, or sequel to yet another story about (superhero?) mutants or aliens.
ORIGINAL CONTENT PLEASE.
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ORIGINAL CONTENT PLEASE.
They tried that. Elio is looking to be a massive flop.
I'm not a hardcore superhero fan (Score:2)
I tend to enjoy the DC and Marvel stories as mindless escapist entertainment, but I'm not a hardcore fan - so perhaps it's as simple as that. But... can someone explain the appeal of the Fantastic Four? Even as a kid, they seemed like a pretty lame group of superheroes to me.
Boring casting (Score:3)
RDJ shouldn't have been cast either. Both roles should have gone to an up-n-comer à la Chris Hemsworth (or the rest of majority of the cast).
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Both roles should have gone to an up-n-comer à la Chris Hemsworth (or the rest of majority of the cast).
I don't understand. Do you mean Chris Hemsworth is an "up-n-comer", or are you saying it's easy to find someone new but similar to him like Chris Hemsworths grow on trees?
Not that I care or gonna watch F4 or another superhero movie. Well, with the very rare exception now and then...
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I think he was saying Chris was up and coming when cast as Thor.
And that may be true, since i can't think of anything he was in before Thor (but to be fair, I'm not a celebrity watcher).
I don't care about F4 (or Superman for that matter), but I'll watch when they come on TV.