{"id":145240,"date":"2025-08-14T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145240\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:03:12","slug":"first-steps-surpasses-beauty-and-the-beast-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145240\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps Surpasses Beauty And The Beast At The Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/strong><\/a> has flown past a major Disney release to climb the studio’s highest-grossing charts. The Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>‘s latest theatrical release has proven itself to be the studio’s best this year at the box office, with The Fantastic Four: First Steps surpassing the worldwide grosses of Captain America: Brave New World and Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*.<\/p>\n

However, the 2025 MCU movie<\/a> has failed to demonstrate the box office legs that the movie was projected to have, falling behind Superman for DC to have the highest-grossing superhero movie of the year for the first time in several years. Despite their box office woes \u2014 Marvel’s upcoming movies<\/a> should easily bounce back \u2014 the Fantastic Four still manage to surpass major releases.<\/p>\n

According to data from The Numbers<\/a>, The Fantastic Four: First Steps has passed the original Beauty and the Beast to climb Disney’s highest-grossing charts<\/strong>. The MCU movie has reached $439.7 million globally, though its box office run is slowing down. That was enough for the Fantastic Four to outgross Beauty and the Beast’s $438.6 million worldwide total.<\/p>\n

What The Fantastic Four: First Steps Passing Beauty And The Beast’s Box Office Means<\/p>\n

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps passing Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a nice touch to its box office run. Sadly, the MCU movie is not performing as the blockbuster many expected it to. Still, the film is on its way to passing $500 million if everything works out<\/strong>. As the first step in a franchise that is being revitalized, it works.<\/p>\n

The MCU Fantastic Four movie had a reported budget of $200 million<\/a>, which means that it needs to be in the $400-$500 million range to break even<\/strong>. Passing the Oscar-winning Beauty and the Beast puts The Fantastic Four: First Steps closer to the high end of that target. Despite its woes at the box office, the Marvel movie will likely be profitable.<\/p>\n

When taking digital sales into account, The Fantastic Four: First Steps should have no problem making more than enough to turn a profit. Beauty and the Beast was a major success that continues to charm generations after its 1991 release. The Disney movie did not need to gross over $500 million to do that. Likewise, the Fantastic Four can thrive.<\/p>\n

Our Take On The Fantastic Four: First Steps Passing Beauty And The Beast’s Box Office<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/p>\n

While The Fantastic Four: First Steps is unlikely to win any Oscars to match the Disney princess movie in that aspect, the former’s box office is positive enough to start a new franchise. After the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot became a box office bomb and one of the most criticized superhero movies of all time<\/strong>, the MCU film’s $439.7 million looks good.<\/p>\n

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is already the highest-grossing movie for the Marvel team. With the film still climbing Disney’s highest-grossing charts<\/strong>, passing beloved movies like Beauty and the Beast, the Fantastic Four’s MCU future should remain unchanged. A sequel could always perform better now that The Fantastic Four: First Steps <\/strong>did the hard work of establishing the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Four: First Steps has flown past a major Disney release to climb the studio’s highest-grossing charts.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-145240","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115027496455079800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}