Marvel experiences the worst year in his history.
After the failures of the “Captain of America: The New World Order” and “Thunderers”, “Fantastic Four: The First Steps” were now added to the list of failures. Despite the positive assessments of the public and a considerable start, the film quickly loses the cashier and risks the third in a row to fail the studio in 2025.
Strong start and sharp fall
In the first weekend, the “first steps” raised impressive $ 117.6 million in the United States, but in the second week a landslide waste took place with 67 % – to 38 million. This is one of the worst indicators in the audience in MCU.
For comparison, Superman James Gann only lost 53 % and has already surpassed 550 million more than 550 million to the World Box Office.
Now the worldwide costs of the Fantastic Four are $ 378.3 million, and analysts doubt that the image will even reach a psychological figure of 500 million.
Why the film did not supplement the mass audience
Critics note that the film has good visual effects and a positive “Sundress Radio”, but there is no “WAU-MOEG” which would now make the audience run to the film. In contrast to Superman with his clear characters such as Krypto and Mr. Terrick, the “first steps” played too safe – without loud cameo and important ligaments with the rest of the Marvel cinema.
The family audience mainly worked poorly: only 17 % of the audience came to the film with children, while Superman had this figure 31 %. Competition with new releases such as “Bad Guys 2” quickly attracted a significant part of the spectators.
At the same time Marvel The sequel is still preparing: PAbout the information from Insiders, the studio, is planning to continue the franchise and is already planning to return the director Matt Shakman for the second part.
The bet is about the fact that the rise of a team in the upcoming films “Avengers: Judgement Day” and Avengers: Secret Wars will warm up interest and improve the continuation costs.
Context: Marvel Crisis 2025
The problems of the “Fantastic Fourth” are superformated about the general difficult situation in Marvel.
In 2025 the studio had already been losses from Captain America: New World Order and Thunderbings, Die Disney Officially recognized as financial failures.
The head of Marvel Kevin Faygi acknowledged in a recent speech that the studio has released more than 100 hours of films and series in the last six years – twice as much as the entire ten years of History of MCU. According to him, such a amount of content was superfluous and the company is planning to reduce the pace, aimed at better releases.
Prior to Marvel Loud Premieres, including “Avengers: Judgement Day”, “Secret Wars” and the second part of the “Fantastic Four”. But experts warn: if the situation with a fall in interest rates does not change, the era of billion reimbursements that have been achieved in the “Infinity War” and “final” can remain in the past.
Source: Popcorn News
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