Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby in a sequence of the new movie “Fantastic Four”, photo: LMK / Landmark / Profimedia Images
The new “Fantastic Four: First Steps” movie was greeted with a Heroes Reception at Box Office, the newest Marvel branded adventure managing to raise $ 118 million on the North American domestic market and another 100 million ticket sales, Variety magazine reports.
International ticket sales are slightly higher than those obtained by the new movie Superman of the Rival DC studio, who gathered $ 95 million at his debut on 78 markets, at the beginning of July, and was the box office leader until this weekend.
However, Superman He had (at the limit) a larger global debut, with total revenue of $ 220 million.
Fantastic Four It was launched in 52 markets, the largest receipts coming from Mexico ($ 12 million), UK (10.8 million), France (5.7 million) and Brazil (5.1 million). The film was not successful in China, where it only achieved $ 4.5 million – a result that is not surprising, as the country has become hostile to most superhero films in recent years.
Directed by Matt Shakman, Fantastic Four: First Steps Watch a famous superhero quartet among comic book enthusiasts (fantastic mystery (played by Pedro Pascal), the invisible woman (Vanessa Kirby), The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Human Torch (Joseph Quinn)-while defending the world of a cosmic entity that devours planes.
Favorable reviews and positive reactions from the public should help the movie withstand Box Office in the coming weeks.
Marvel has put high hopes in the movie “Fantastic Four”
This initial reception is encouraging for the Marvel and Disney studio, the American giant of the entertainment that owns it.
Superhero films have long been considered in Hollywood the most trusted guarantees of financial success, but have been facing major difficulties in maintaining a constant commercial course in recent years.
The so-called “fatigue” towards the superhero movies hit the DC studio, which-until the new Superman – He recorded failure after failure after his film The Batman from 2022. During this time, DC has released 6 films under its brand, but including large titles such as Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom There were commercial failures.
For Marvel the situation was almost as dramatic, but the studio held by Disney recorded some sporadic successes during that period. The most notable of these was represented by the film Deadpool & Wolverine Launched last year, entering the exclusive club of feature film that exceeded the threshold of $ one billion.
But Marvel again felt “fatigue to superhero” this year, after the previous two films he has released in 2025- Captain America: Brave New World (in February) and Thunderbolts (May) – they finally got to lose money in relation to their $ 180 million budgets.
