The Fantastic Four: First Steps Kicks Off MCU Phase 6 With Strong Start at the Box Office, Superman Shoots Past $500M

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has kicked disconnected Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an awesome $118 cardinal home container bureau haul from its opening weekend.

That’s the 4th biggest home opening of 2025, down A Minecraft Movie ($162 million), Lilo & Stitch ($146 million), and Superman ($125 million).

First Steps, starring Pedro Pascal arsenic Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby arsenic Sue Storm / Invisible Woman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach arsenic Ben Grimm / The Thing, and Joseph Quinn arsenic Johnny Storm / Human Torch, pulled successful $100 cardinal internationally, making for a planetary tally of $218 million.

That’s the champion opening play for a Marvel movie since past year’s cardinal dollar blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, and is comfortably up of this year’s container bureau disappointments Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*.

Fantastic Four’s opening is beauteous overmuch cervix and cervix with Superman’s, which managed $217 cardinal globally erstwhile it launched. The question for Marvel and genitor institution Disney volition be, tin Fantastic Four amusement staying powerfulness astatine theaters successful the weeks and months ahead, agelong capable to beryllium considered a occurrence theatrically?

All eyes are connected Fantastic Four’s show pursuing Marvel’s caller container bureau struggles, with the large fund Avengers: Doomsday retired precocious adjacent year. Before that, Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes retired July 2026, past Avengers: Secret Wars launches successful 2027.

Meanwhile, Superman is the highest-grossing superhero movie of 2025, supra some Captain America and Thunderbolts* aft 3 weekends, and is present up to $502.7 cardinal globally. Jurassic World Rebirth deed $708.3 cardinal worldwide aft 4 weekends, and F1 The Movie is connected $509.7 cardinal aft 5 weekends.

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