Fantastic Four: First Steps Box Office Hits Major Global Milestone In Spite Of Week 2 Domestic Woes

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has hit a major milestone worldwide even though it has stumbled at the domestic box office. The new movie is the 37th feature-length installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the тιтular group of superheroes, who must protect Earth from Galactus (Ralph Ineson).

The Fantastic Four: First Steps reviews have earned it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 86% with a Verified H๏τ audience score of 92%. However, this did not prevent the movie from stumbling hard at the box office during its sophomore weekend, falling 66% from its debut weekend in one of the MCU’s worst-ever week 2 drops.

Per Variety, as of Sunday morning, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is projected to conclude its second weekend in theaters by hitting a cumulative global box office total of $368 million. This makes it only the 12th movie of the year to surpᴀss the $350 million milestone in spite of its troubles in the domestic marketplace.

What This Means For The Fantastic Four: First Steps

By hitting this global box office milestone, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is beginning to climb the charts. In fact, in the span of just 10 days, it has already surpᴀssed the complete box office totals of the two lowest-grossing MCU movies in history, which are The Marvels ($199.7 million) and The Incredible Hulk ($265.6 million).

Even if it is hit with another troubling domestic drop in week 3, it seems set to have its global total continue climbing past the $400 million milestone and higher within a relatively short time.

Hitting the $400 million milestone alone would both land The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the Top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2025 (as the chart currently stands) and see it additionally outgross Captain America: The First Avenger ($370.6 million), Black Widow ($379.7 million), and Thunderbolts* ($382.4 million).

However, the fact that it has already hit a snag during its sophomore weekend at the domestic box office could indicate a potentially damaging slowdown. The reported budget of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is more than $200 million, which could place its estimated break-even point as high as $500 million.

It remains to be seen if it will be able to hit that milestone, though the fact that it has already surged past the $350 million benchmark could put it in a good position to do so.

Our Take On The Fantastic Four: First Steps Milestone

Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm looking upward in awe in The Fantastic Four First Steps

While its prospects are looking less sure in the wake of its domestic drop, if it can keep up its current global trajectory, The Fantastic Four: First Steps could still very well become the first MCU movie of 2025 to be an unalloyed success at the box office in the wake of the underperforming Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*.

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Source: Variety