FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Opens With $118 Million Domestically and $218M Worldwide

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FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS opened this weekend with an estimated $118 million domestically and a worldwide total of $218 million.

Deadline reports:

"Ok, ok, ok, so Marvel Studios/Disney‘s The Fantastic Four: First Steps is coming in lighter at $118M after a -42% slide on Saturday against Friday/previews for what was $33.2M. As we said yesterday, cynics, go pound sand. $100M-plus opening for the industry? What major studio wouldn’t want that? Also, for a superhero movie to continue to do $100M+ in its 3-day start, va bene for capes.

"Worldwide debut is $218M, which is $2M shy of Superman‘s initial global pounce.

"Still, that’s a steep Friday/previews to Saturday decline, which indicates the movie was front-loaded. Nobody was spotting that yesterday, the lowest was a $120M debut. And families always go to the movies on Saturday. Fantastic Four‘s fall is sharper than Superman (-33%), Thunderbolts* (-22%), Deadpool & Wolverine (-36%), and Captain America: Brave New World (-32%)."

They go on to speculate that the reality right now is how families are still heading to theaters to catch SUPERMAN over the new release of FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS. This could, in theory, lead to families going to the latest family-oriented Marvel Studios film in the coming weeks. The implication here is that Fantastic Four should have legs moving forward once families pivot from one superhero film to the next.