{"id":113670,"date":"2025-08-02T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:43:16","slug":"fantastic-four-box-office-in-freefall-down-80-from-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113670\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fantastic Four\u2019 Box Office In Freefall, Down 80% From Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a> opened quite strongly in its first weekend, $117 million domestically, with a total around $257 million worldwide so far, things are taking a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n

While Fantastic Four will still take its second weekend, the movie only grossed $11.7 million on Friday, which is down a massive 80%<\/a> from the previous Friday during its launch weekend. That puts it on pace to fall short of estimates and it may not even break $40 million in its follow-up weekend.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to spin this. For comparison\u2019s sake, in the same month, Superman dropped 53% from its first weekend to its second. And while Fantastic Four may outpace other recent, rather poor MCU offerings by a bit, this is far from a roaring \u201cwe\u2019re back\u201d warcry, despite these big names and how much they will tie into the upcoming pair of Avengers movies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite clear what happened here. The film reviewed well among critics, an 86%, and really well among fans, a 92% with 10,000 scores in, one of Marvel\u2019s highest. But as we\u2019ve seen that\u2026doesn\u2019t quite matter. Thunderbolts, the previous MCU film, was almost an identically-reviewed hit, 88% and 93%, but it was a self-admitted miss by Marvel, and one of its lowest grossers. As a result, Fantastic Four may also be trending toward the bottom tier of overall earners in the MCU.<\/p>\n

It’s a little surprising. You can make excuses for a lot of past MCU failures:<\/p>\n