Box-office: the fantastic 4 collapses, DC is going to dethrone Marvel?

What happened to the movie The fantastic 4: first steps ? The new Marvel rocket had yet successfully taken off at the American box office last week. But the latest Opus du MCU has just dropped heavily during its second operating weekend, recording figures well below projections. We take stock.

The MCU marks the step

However, all the lights were green: overall positive criticisms (including ours), good public returns and a start -up at 118 million dollars on American soil. It was therefore a big surprise to see this Friday, August 1, The fantastic 4: first steps Show a loss of 80% of its audience compared to last week, that is to say catastrophic public, close to that of Joker: Folia with two…

With finally 40 million dollars recorded and a decline on the weekend of only 66%, the film Marvel limits the breakage a little, but it remains far from the expectations of the studio (50 million) and finishes in particular this Sunday evening below the symbolic bar of the $ 200 million.

The feature film is a little international where it gleaned an additional 39.6 million for a world cumulation of $ 368.7 million. But as a comparison, this loss of audience of 66% is similar to that of Captain America : Brave New World (-68%) and far from the recent Thunderbolts (-56%).

Above all, with this bad second weekend, The Fantastic 4 Seeing itself by Superman Who had held nicely (-54%). At this rate, it seems complicated for the Marvel film to catch up with the 316 million in the US of Superman At the end of his career. For the first time since 2008 (and The Dark Knight), DC production could therefore offer the biggest superheroic success of the year. The end of an era? Answer next week.

Les Bad Guys 2 was one of the novelties of the weekend. DreamWorks’s animated film recorded $ 22.2 million for its beginnings and offered second place in the ranking. A launch similar to that of the first installment (23.9 million), which had established itself as one of the surprise successes of 2022. A rather calm August on the side of family outings should offer it the same destiny.

Finally, Is there a cop to save the world?improbable continuation of the comedies of the 80s with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, signed a first American weekend at $ 17 million, and more than 28 million worldwide. Dotted with a modest budget of 42 million and carried by good reviews and a nice public welcome, the film should surf this positive wave and slowly enter its costs throughout the summer.

US box office from August 1 to 3, 2025 (estimates)

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