{"id":296062,"date":"2025-07-27T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296062\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:21:16","slug":"fantastic-four-first-steps-has-second-biggest-box-office-opening-day-of-the-year-at-57m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296062\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four: First Steps has second biggest box office opening day of the year at $57m"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marvel\u2019s latest offering, The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>, had a triumphant first day at the US box office: the second biggest opening of this calendar year.<\/p>\n

The film made $57m (\u00a347m) from combined preview screenings and showings<\/a> across 4,125 cinemas on Friday (25 July), according to Variety<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That figure puts First Steps just behind A Minecraft Movie<\/a>, which had the biggest opening day of the year in the US box office with $57.11m in April, and just ahead of Marvel Studios\u2018 comic book banner rival, DC Studios\u2019 Superman, which made $56.1m on its opening day on 11 July.<\/p>\n

The opening marks the best first day for a Marvel Cinematic Universe release since Deadpool & Wolverine dominated the box office 12 months ago, which made $205m (\u00a3160m) at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. But it will be a close call on whether First Steps can outpace Superman\u2019s $125m (\u00a393m) three-day opening earlier this month.<\/p>\n

First Steps is still Marvel\u2019s best opening day of the year, with its recent releases not being as lucrative. February\u2019s Captain America: Brave New World grossed around $88m (\u00a365m) during its opening weekend, while May\u2019s Thunderbolts* brought in around $74m (\u00a355m).<\/p>\n

The original Fantastic Four comic books follow a group of scientists who develop superhuman abilities after being exposed to a mysterious cosmic storm. <\/p>\n

The new Marvel film stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards\/Mr Fantastic, The Bear\u2019s Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm\/The Thing, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm\/The Invisible Woman, and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm\/The Human Torch.<\/p>\n

It follows the quartet as they battle world-devouring Galactus (Ralph Ineson)<\/a> and his cosmic herald, the Silver Surfer.<\/p>\n

\"PedroPedro Pascal in \u2018Fantastic Four: First Steps\u2019 (Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n

The film has opened to mostly positive early reactions<\/a> from fans and critics. In The Independent\u2019s three-star review<\/a>, Clarisse Loughrey said that while the set designs are a \u201cspace-age dream\u201d, the film \u201cjerks around\u201d far more than it needs to with dialogue disintegrating too often into \u201cunfunny banter\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an oddly binary attitude here, where we can do plot or character, but never both at the same time,\u201d Loughrey writes. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ironic that Ben\u2019s so reluctant to deploy his catchphrase, \u2018it\u2019s clobberin\u2019 time\u2019, considering everything else he\u2019s saying is basically \u2018Marvel Quip 101.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925645605348507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}