Marvel's first family couldn't save the day. “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” quickly loses Steam on the second weekend and signals that the comic adventure does not go out at the box office beyond the core demography of the film of the superhero fans.
After a healthy debut of 117.6 million US dollars, “The Fantastic Four” had to achieve a strong decline in the second excursion by 66% with $ 40 million from 4,125 cinemas. In the cash analysts, the weekend went to 60% with a decline from 55% compared to its opening. This painful fall is surprising because “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” has the advantage of positive reviews and word of mouth as well as a clear runway in relation to the competition.
Although these ticket sales were sufficient to prove number 1 in North American charts, “The First Steps” had one of the steep drops of the second week for Disney's Marvel Cinematic universe accompanied by the “Captain America: Brave New World” from February “(Down 68%), 2023's” Ant Man and The Wasp. 67%) and 2022 and 2022 and “. So far,“ Fantastic Four ”has generated 198 million US dollars in Germany and $ 368 million worldwide. Fortunately for Marvel, whose production was extremely inconsistent in post-pandemical times, “The First Steps” is going to overtake this year's former theater productions of “Captain America: Brave New World” ($ 415 million worldwide) and “Thunderbolts” worldwide.
Three new films opened nationwide, but nobody fought for the same audience as “Fantastic Four”. Among the new publications, “The Bad Guys 2” from Universal and Dreamworks ENIMATIONS with 22.8 million US dollars of 3,852 event locations experienced the strongest start. This is directly with the first film, which opened to 23 million US dollars in 2022, when the cinemas fought considerably to recover from Covid and hardly released the studios. The original film was finally 250 million US dollars worldwide. “The Bad Guys 2”, which cost $ 80 million and follows a group of reformed criminals, which are due to a last fraudster, was accepted by an audience with an “A” order for Cinemascore exit surveys.
“This is a good opening for a continuation of animation,” says analyst David A. Gross Gross from Franchise Entertainment Research. “With this type of business, the film does what it should do.”
Paramounts Slapstick comedy “The Naked Gun” debut on # 3 on 17 million US dollars from 3,344 theaters that correspond exactly to projections. It is a promising start in view of the lack of theater comedies. Critics and cinema goers bury the film in which Liam Neeson is equipped with Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser as Detective Frank Drebin Jr. (son of the late Leslie Nielsen Frank Drebin, his predecessor in the “Naked Gun” trilogy). “The Naked Gun” achieved an “A-” anchor at Cinemascore and has an average of 90% for rotting tomatoes, both of which are good for the rest of his theater run. Akiva Schaffer by The Lonely Island Fame has staged the film, which contains a price of 42 million US dollars.
The last newcomer to this weekend, neon's body horror album “together”, landed in sixth place with $ 6.8 million on the traditional weekend and in the first five days of publication $ 10.8 million. The real husband and the wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie play in “Together” a dependent couple who is terribly closed after a mysterious force. The audience gave the film a “C+” on Cinemascore, although this hard grade is not surprising because they probably felt the theater very disturbed. In fact, Neon has leaned into the trauma on the screen to advertise the film. Offer the therapy of the free couple For partners who see “together” on the opening weekend. Neon shot $ 17 million to buy the film from Sundance and marked one of the richest offers in the history of the festival.
At the box office, “Superman” rose to fourth place with 13.9 million US dollars on the fourth weekend in publication. The adaptation of Warner Bros. and DC Studios has generated $ 316.2 million in Germany and $ 551.2 million worldwide.
Universal “Jurassic World Rebirth” rounded off the top 5 with 8.4 million US dollars on the fifth publication weekend. The dinosaur epic, which restarted the long-standing property with Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Maherhala Ali, has reduced $ 317 million in North America and $ 766 million worldwide.
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