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'Fantastic Four' Tops 'Superman' Opening, Second-Largest of the Year (forbes.com) 43

Posted by EditorDavid from the here's-the-Thing dept.
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.

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  • Please! (Score:3)

    by LondoMollari ( 172563 ) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @01:15PM (#65548546) Homepage

    Please, for the love of God or whatever you do or don’t worship, NO MORE SUPERHERO MOVIES!

    • 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

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by bjoast ( 1310293 )
      You will watch ze superhero movie, and you will be happy.

    • 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.

    • 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?

      • A tiny handful? The problem is that they pretty much dominated the Blockbuster niche for the past decade or two. The kind of movie many of us turn to for a few hours of dumb escapism: usually with a simple but solid plot, some explosions and eye candy, uncomplicated characters, but big ticket actors and good production values. For those of us who enjoy that sort of thing, but dislike the premise of superheroes, it has been woefully slim pickings the past years.

        • I don't see why this isn't problem.

          If you can't find a movie you want to watch, of the hundreds that are available every year, maybe you should loosen your standards or find another way to waste time.

          • That's a bit like being on a cruise where the breakfast buffet offers only eggs prepared a 1000 different ways, and you're telling someone who is allergic to eggs "if you can't find something good, maybe lower your standards". For the record: I do like eggs.

            • I was very recently on a 15 day cruise. I found 99% of the buffet inedible.

              I mostly ate bread and drank apple juice. Sometimes I ate the fries.

    • It's not like you have to go watch them.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by linuxguy ( 98493 )

      > whatever you do or don’t worship...

      I enjoy a good superhero movie. It is an escape. You go in, enjoy the movie, have a few laughs and go back to your normal life. Why do you feel the need to worship anything or anybody?

      Also, is somebody forcing you to buy tickets for a superhero movie? If that is the case, then I can totally see your viewpoint.

  • Every damn one? (Score:3)

    by Grunschev ( 517745 ) <slashdot@@@grunschev...com> on Sunday July 27, 2025 @01:44PM (#65548590) Homepage

    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.

  • Including what? (Score:3)

    by registrations_suck ( 1075251 ) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:20PM (#65548646)

    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.

  • We have yet another remake, reboot, or sequel to yet another story about (superhero?) mutants or aliens.

    ORIGINAL CONTENT PLEASE.

  • 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)

    by sixsixtysix ( 1110135 ) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:54PM (#65548700)
    Too much Pedro Pascal has ruined him, just like Oscar Isaac years ago. Fine actors with too much market saturation.
    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).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Ecuador ( 740021 )

      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...

  • Actually Superman beat the Fantastic Four in the domestic opening weekend totals. Superman had a $125 million domestic opening weekend while Fantastic Four had a $118 million domestic opening weekend box office. Quoting the opening day figure is a bit disingenous when referring to a film's opening as the summary does.

    A film's opening box office is usually understood to mean the opening weekend box office and not a one-off one-day figure.. weird. Anyway here are some additional articles from variety that

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