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'Fantastic Four' Tops 'Superman' Opening, Second-Largest of the Year (forbes.com) 66

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.

        • Nope, it's a tiny handful. All the superhero movies combined over the last decade make up 0.1% of movies released over that time in the USA alone. There's 2 superhero movies on right now. Whoop de fucking do. At my local cinema this one actually kicked Superman out of the prime screen. We have 15 screens at my local cinema pretty much playing something constantly. You don't need to go into Cinema 9 to see Fantastic Four. You could go to see the thriller playing in Cinema 12, or the Comdey in Cinema 5, or se

    • 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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      I have no issue with the genera itself, as long as the movies are good. Have not seen FF but Superman is very good.

    • Please, for the love of God or whatever you do or donâ(TM)t worship, NO MORE SUPERHERO MOVIES!

      Why do you care? You do not have to watch the movie/s. To me, every movie released from today forward could be a campy musical and I wouldn't care. I do not have to watch it and I do not care what other people watch. If they enjoy it, great for them. Their enjoyment does not detract from my own enjoyment of my own life. There are numerous things on this planet which offend me (including some of the superhero movies), but I still get through my day without having to remark on any of them.

  • 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.

    • Apparently they made a Josie and the Pussycats movie in 2001. Oh and thereâ(TM)s an underdog movie too.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by aitikin ( 909209 )

        Apparently they made a Josie and the Pussycats movie in 2001. Oh and thereâ(TM)s an underdog movie too.

        It was actually a fantastic take on the recording industry. From the aptly named band, Du Jour to the marketing being everywhere, it was impressive. Shame that it didn't do well.

    • Perhaps sadly for me I would probably watch a live-action remake of Johnny Quest.

    • What's next? A Josie and the Pussycats movie?

      Done. [youtube.com] Though they didn't go into outer space. Maybe they were saving that for the sequel...

      Personally, I would spend money to see a Thundarr the Barbarian movie...

  • Including what? (Score:5, Funny)

    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.

    • They've rebooted FF after only one movie, what, like four times?

      If you're not paying attention then sure. The actual number is they've rebooted after one movie once.

      The 1994 was unreleased.
      The 2005 movie had a sequel.
      The 2015 movie - is the one that only survived one so far.
      And now we're here.

      How many times have the rebooted Superman lately?

      Lately? Zero times. The last reboot was in 2013 with Man of Steel. The most recent superman film is not an origin story.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Because Fox needed to keep churning out FF movies to retain the rights. Same with Spiderman. Didn't matter how bad they were, they needed to exist for contractual reasons.

      Now Marvel have the rights back we might get some decent FF movies. Their Spiderman ones were okay.

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

    ORIGINAL CONTENT PLEASE.

    • Re:Yet again (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Powercntrl ( 458442 ) on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:44PM (#65548690) Homepage

      ORIGINAL CONTENT PLEASE.

      They tried that. Elio is looking to be a massive flop.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      There's very little original under the sun, but that doesn't mean it's all bad. The Matrix is a good example. It is clearly inspired by many, many prior works, but does something different and interesting with those same ideas.

      It's basically a superghero movies, the protagonist goes from ordinary to having extraordinary powers.

  • 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...

      • I think he was saying Chris was up and coming when cast as Thor.

        And that may be true, since i can't think of anything he was in before Thor (but to be fair, I'm not a celebrity watcher).

        I don't care about F4 (or Superman for that matter), but I'll watch when they come on TV.

        • He made his name in Home and Away, unsurprisingly. (It's a long running Australian soap if you didn't know.)

          • I didn't know.

            But it would make sense, since I don't know much.

            But it sounds like, with respect to Hollywood at least, he WAS an up and comer when cast as Thor.

          • That is true but there's a difference between tv series and movies. Many actors never cross those worlds. Chris Hemsworth was very much an up and comer in the movie world when he entered as a superhero having done only minor supporting roles before then. Thor was his breakout role.

    • He must have some kind of crazy, "I have to be in everything", contract with Disney.
  • 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

  • I went to see it. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by mamba-mamba ( 445365 ) on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:39AM (#65549586)

    I went to see it. Against my better judgement, because it got decent reviews. Don't be taken in. This is an eminently forgettable movie. You would be much better off not going to see it. It is not even worth streaming. Maybe if you find yourself on a long flight with nothing else to do. If you doze off, don't worry. You didn't miss anything.

    I can't say whether Superman is any better because I didn't see it. I may go see it with the family if they are interested. Otherwise I will wait until I can stream it on one of the platforms I pay for. Or maybe I will never watch it. Not sure.

  • After I saw Superman I realized I never had been tired of superhero movies. I was tired of BAD superhero movies. Speeches about how men are evil. 1 cut per second. cartoony CG. Bad acting. Nonsensical or nonexistent character development. Lazy writing. Obvious egos in the directors chair.

    Superman had none of that. (well maybe lazy writing if you call being faithful to the original lazy) I'm not going to watch FF because I have no hope it will be as good as Superman.

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