“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” extended his arms around $ 57 million in 4,125 Friday theaters and preview projections. According to Disney figures, this is the second largest opening day of the calendar year, ranking just behind “A Minecraft Movie” ($ 57.11 million). The film obtains IMAX and other premium auditoriums in large format.
It also ends that the Marvel Studios comic strip banner, the Rival, “Superman” of DC Studios, started with an opening day of $ 56.1 million two weeks ago. It will be a close call to find out if “Fantastic Four” can continue to put forward to beat the opening of $ 125 million to three days of “Superman”.
It is the best kick-off of the first day for a Marvel cinematic universe since “Deadpool & Wolverine” dominated the box office 12 months ago. And like this Smash side R, “Fantastic Four” is based on Marvel characters who were acquired by Disney after the acquisition by the studio of 20th Century Fox in 2019, demonstrating a certain value to this merger of $ 71 billion. Three previous entries “Fantastic Fourd Fourd Four” were produced in Fox, from 2005 to 2015. (There was also an unprecedented feature from 1994, directed by Roger Corman as a means of preserving cinematographic rights for German producers.
With a story that has little connection with other entries from Marvel Cinematic Universe, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” presented itself as a point of entry to the public. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who run the film as the first Marvel family, are all new MCU arrivals. “First Steps” also has the benefit of solid criticisms and good feelings of the public (score of the cinema of polls has transformed a note “A-” among ticket buyers).
At a production cost of $ 200 million, more much more to market and distribute, the film will have to be one of the largest coarse of the year to make a profit in theaters. The two previous outings of Marvel in 2025, “Captain America: Brave New World” and “Thunderbolts *”, are launched respectively at 88.5 million dollars and $ 76 million. The two ended up losing money in theater.
Disney hopes to take momentum with the “Fantastic Four” led by Matt Shakman, before the vast interruption of the studio of superhero films. Marvel produces “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”, the fourth entry led by Tom Holland which will be released in July 2026. But Sony distributes this film. Disney will have almost a year and a half to plan its next episode MCU, the mega-team “Avengers: Doomsday”, scheduled for December 2026.
Second place goes to Warner Bros. ‘“Superman”, which added $ 7.1 million on Friday. It is down 57% Since its total daily a week ago, in competition with a more recent superhero show. The cinematographic-re-below is to go to a national total of $ 289 million after its third weekend, which will put it before “Sinners” (278 million dollars) to have it classified as the highest North American exit of the year.
“Jurassic World Rebirth” of Universal is slipped into third row of its fourth weekend, adding 3.6 million dollars on Friday. The seventh entry of the Dinosaur series projects $ 13 million for its fourth weekend, which would be another good take to a drop of 45%. The total inner crude crude should go from $ 301 million to Sunday – only the third version of 2025 to enter the hundreds of triples.
Fourth seems to go to “F1”. Warner Bros. ‘The release of the Apple Studios racing thriller added $ 1.8 million on Friday, down 37% compared to its daily total a week ago. At a production cost of $ 250 million, theatrical profitability is at best a dubious perspective for the functionality led by Brad Pitt. But he has set up strong taken since his debut a month ago. The film seems to reach an internal total of $ 165 million to Sunday.
The IP renewal of Paramount “Smurfs” completes the first five, adding $ 1.72 million on Friday and projecting $ 5.6 million for its second weekend. After a low opening, this is a 49% drop in the second week, showing a certain relative power like the only new animated offer to families. The national total will reach $ 22.9 million in the first 10 days – a disappointing result against a production budget of $ 58 million.
