{"id":145884,"date":"2025-07-26T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=145884"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:44:11","slug":"top-5-fantastic-four-is-back-and-theyre-blowing-up-the-box-office-on-their-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/top-5-fantastic-four-is-back-and-theyre-blowing-up-the-box-office-on-their-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5: Fantastic Four is back, and they\u2019re blowing up the box office on their debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fantastic Four have officially made their comeback, and they\u2019re killing it. <strong>Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/strong> launched this weekend and crushed expectations with a $120 to $125 million debut. That\u2019s toe-to-toe with DC\u2019s Superman, which dropped just two weeks earlier. After years of flop history in the franchise (especially 2015\u2019s \u201cFANT4STIC\u201d), this is exactly the glow-up the franchise needed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CultureCrave\/status\/1949146980929917142\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FantasticFour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FantasticFour<\/a> has already crossed $100M at the global box office \ud83d\udcb0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pm4iuwMG5B\">pic.twitter.com\/pm4iuwMG5B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Culture Crave \ud83c\udf7f (@CultureCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CultureCrave\/status\/1949146980929917142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Right now, summer films are heating up theaters, with Superman, Eddington, and Jurassic World Rebirth taking turns at the top. But First Steps just took the crown from all of them. It even earned more than the rest of the top five combined. While Superman held $24.5 million in its third weekend and Jurassic World added $13 million, the Fantastic Four ate up the competition. All eyes are now on its second weekend to see if Marvel can avoid the usual MCU slump.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the top 5 here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>#01. The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-Day Total: $120-$125 million.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative: $120-$125 million (weekend 1).<\/p>\n<p><strong>#02. Superman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-Day Total: $24.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative: $289.1 million (weekend 3).<\/p>\n<p><strong>#03. Jurassic World Rebirth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-Day Total: $13 million.<\/p>\n<p>$301.5 million (weekend 4).<\/p>\n<p><strong>#04. F1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-Day Total: $6.3 million<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative: $165.6 million (weekend 5).<\/p>\n<p><strong>#05. Smurfs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-Day Total: $5.6 million<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative: $22.9 million (weekend 2).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/effoff1988\/status\/1949159369146253816\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Weekend Box Office Tidbits<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FantasticFour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FantasticFour<\/a>  a proper MCU hit at last, 350M+ ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Superman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Superman<\/a> 400M shaky but August legs will help<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JurassicWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JurassicWorld<\/a> legging out to 330M+<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> still heading to around 185M<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer<\/a> 34-38M endgame<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HTTYD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HTTYD<\/a> still heading to 265-270M <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bj3SZXMLJh\">pic.twitter.com\/bj3SZXMLJh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phantom (@effoff1988) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/effoff1988\/status\/1949159369146253816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First Steps might be the start of a new era, putting the focus back on quality and classic heroes. The real test will be how well it holds up next weekend. If it drops less than 50 percent, it might just take the crown from Superman. Either way, superhero fatigue is clearly not stopping fans from showing up for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fantastic Four have officially made their comeback, and they\u2019re killing it. Fantastic Four: First Steps launched this weekend and crushed expectations with a $120 to $125 million debut. That\u2019s toe-to-toe with DC\u2019s Superman, which dropped just two weeks earlier. After years of flop history in the franchise (especially 2015\u2019s \u201cFANT4STIC\u201d), this is exactly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":145885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1402,1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-list","9":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145884"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=145884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}