Box Office: The Fantastic Four: First Steps Opens with $118 Million

(L-R): Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2025 MARVEL.

Current box office estimates point towards a $118 million opening weekend for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the fourth biggest in 2025.

After 20th Century Fox tried to get it right in 2005, 2007, and 2015, it took the Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets to finally give audiences the Fantastic Four movie that Marvel’s First Family deserves. Suffice it to say, audiences certainly showed up. It was a rather front-loaded weekend with a 42% decline on Saturday following the combined Thursday/Friday opening. But that’s sometime how it goes with Marvel. You want to see the film before spoilers make their way online. The international box office added another $100 million.

Superman isn’t controlling the box office in the same way that it did during its first two weekends but this was to be expected. The Fantastic Four: First Steps provided competition in a way that last week’s openers didn’t. It’s third weekend at the box office brought in $24.86 million. This puts the DC Studios film within range of hitting $300 million at the domestic box office during the upcoming week. Globally, the film has crossed the $500 million mark.

Jurassic World Rebirth brought in $13 million during its fourth weekend and crossed $300 million domestically. Globally, the seventh film in the franchise has now topped $700 million. As I wrote in my review last month, I don’t know where the story will go but the box office numbers prove that audiences aren’t tired of the dinosaur franchise. I’m curious to see what the team decides to do. The film’s universe is very different now compared to what was depicted in Jurassic World Dominion.

F1: The Movie brought in $6.2 million during its fifth weekend. Domestically, the film has grossed just over $165 million. Globally, it has already surpassed $500 million thanks to the international box office. That’s either the power of Brad Pitt or F1 or both.

Smurfs rounds out the top five with $5.4 million. I Know What You Did Last Summer, How to Train Your Dragon, and Eddington returned to the top ten. The new Ari Aster film plummeted over 60% in its second weekend. Newcomers to the top ten include Saiyarra and Oh, Hi.

Both Lilo and Stitch and Elio have dropped out of the weekend top ten. But to be fair, Lilo and Sitch is now available for audiences to watch through digital retailers. As for Elio, this was not the sort of box office run that Disney-Pixar would have liked.

Theatrical openings on August 1 include The Naked Gun, The Bad Guys 2, She Rides Shotgun, and Trouble Man. It’s been over 30 years since The Naked Gun had a new installment. The third film brought in $51 million at the domestic box office, making it the lowest grossing film of the franchise. Liam Neeson is not Leslie Nielsen and the film features a completely new cast so it’ll be interesting to see what happens.