{"id":91777,"date":"2025-07-25T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91777\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:09:09","slug":"fantastic-four-makes-24-4-million-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91777\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four Makes $24.4 Million in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMarvel<\/a>\u2018s Fantastic Four are taking big first steps at the box office, earning a mighty $24.4 million in previews. The haul is the best preview result of the year so far, beating the previous high of $22.5 million set by \u201cSuperman\u201d earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>,\u201d the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is on track to make $100 million to $110 million in its opening weekend, though rival studios think it could soar even higher. The film, starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, is expected to add another $90 million to $100 million at the international box office for a worldwide debut between $190 million and $210 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the second superhero movie this month, following Warner Bros. Discovery and DC Studios\u2019 hit \u201cSuperman,\u201d which has ruled over the box office for the past two weeks. \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d will win this heroic showdown this weekend, and its opening results will be in line with the Man of Steel\u2019s launch. \u201cSuperman\u201d made $125 million domestically and $220 million worldwide in its opening after earning $22.5 million in previews, the best of the year so far. \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d has a price tag of more than $200 million and cost more than $100 million to market, so it\u2019ll need positive reviews and word-of-mouth to power its box office receipts. Remember, theaters keep half of ticket sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarvel\u2019s two previous movies this year, \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World\u201d and \u201cThunderbolts,\u201d had less stellar openings. The fourth Cap movie made $12 million in previews before an $88.5 million opening, while \u201cThunderbolts\u201d had $11.5 million in previews and a $76 million launch. Both ended up losing money against their $180 million budgets, with some analysts pointing to \u201csuperhero fatigue\u201d as the culprit. Marvel is hoping the Fantastic Four can turn things around. The company has already said that it plans to make fewer streaming shows and films, focusing on quality more than quantity. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFirst Steps\u201d officially brings the Fantastic Four into the MCU after some lackluster Fox movies, and it boasts a retro-futuristic aesthetic unlike previous Marvel films. In it, the superhero family must save their world against Galactus (Ralph Ineson), a devourer of planets, and his herald, the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). Critics liked the film, handing it an 89% \u201ccertified fresh\u201d rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn another bit of good news for Disney, Marvel\u2019s parent company, the studio announced that it will cross the $3 billion mark in global grosses on Friday, becoming the first Hollywood player this year to reach that milestone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2018s Fantastic Four are taking big first steps at the box office, earning a mighty $24.4 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,7644,14020,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-91777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-marvel","10":"tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114914745786955942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777","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=91777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}