First Steps’ Box Office Taking Steep Dive In 2nd Weekend

Pedro Pascal in “The Fantastic Four First Steps’.”

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Disney Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps is projected to drop as much as 66% in business from its opening frame in its second weekend at the domestic box office.

Starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Marvel’s First Family of Superheroes, The Fantastic Four: First Steps opened with a solid $117.6 million from 4,125 North American theaters from July 25-28.

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This weekend, the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is hitting some turbulence. According to Deadline, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is projected to make $40 million to $45 million in its second Friday to Sunday frame, which, on the bottom end of that forecast, is a 66% drop in business from its opening weekend.

Per the trade publication, a 66% second weekend drop is on par with Captain America: Brave New World’s second weekend drop of 68% in February. The second weekend drop for Disney Marvel’s other 2025 release — Thunderbolts* — was 56%. The Fantastic Four: First Steps theater count for this weekend remains at 4,125 venues.

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The forecast of a $40 million to $45 million take for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in its second weekend is below industry projections heading into the weekend. Variety projected the film to earn $45 million to $52 million this weekend, while Box Office Pro’s forecast was a bit more optimistic with a $45 million to $55 million second frame projection.

Depending on where the domestic weekend tally ends up, The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be $2 million shy of the $200 million mark or exceeding the benchmark by $3 million by Sunday, Deadline reported.

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DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2, which is being distributed by Universal Pictures, is projected by Deadline to make $22 million from 3,852 North American theaters in its opening weekend, which matches the low end of Box Office’s Pro’s forecast of a $22 to $28 million opening.

Variety pegged a much lower opening for the animated family comedy with a forecast of a $15 million to $17 million opening.

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The Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson reboot of The Naked Gun is projected by Deadline to earn $16 million from 3,344 North American theaters, which falls in line with Variety’s pre-release projection of a $15 million to $17 million opening take. Box Office Pro, meanwhile, projected a much loftier debut for The Naked Gun with a pre-release forecast of $22 million to $28 million.

Coming in at No. 4 is director James Gunn’s Superman, starring David Corenswet as DC Studios’ new Man of Steel. Deadline is projecting that the film will earn $13 million in its fourth weekend frame from 3,537 North American theaters.

If the projection holds, it will boost Superman’s domestic tally to $315.8 million through Sunday. The film cleared the $300 million domestic benchmark on Thursday.

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Scarlett Johansson’s Jurassic World Rebirth is projected by Deadline to earn $8.1 million from 3,240 venues this weekend. If the forecast holds, it will up the dino adventure’s domestic take to $317 million.

Note: This box office report will be updated throughout the weekend with the most current numbers as they become available. The final numbers for this weekend’s box office will be released on Monday.

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