How high will “The Fantastic Four: First Streets” fly on his second weekend at the box office?
This is the continued question after Disney's comic adventure has taken up to do a healthy 117.6 million US dollar in his debut. Every superhero pole can start strongly; This needs momentum to qualify as a hit for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In his second outing, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” strive for 45 to 52 million US dollars, which goes back to a decline from around 55% to 60%. This is a slightly larger dip than “Superman”, which declined by 53% on the second weekend after starting 125 million US dollars in early July.
“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” was the last big blockbuster of the summer film season, although Hollywood hopes that several August publications have the potential to become sleeper hits. Two of the Breakout hopping carriers are Paramounts Slapstick Action Comedy “The Naked Gun” and Neons Body Horror album “Together”, both of whom are opened this weekend.
“The Naked Gun” is aimed at a debut of 15 to 17 million US dollars of 3,300 US dollars, a decent number, since the theater comedies are practically extinct. Liam Neeson plays in the film as Frank Drebin Jr., a policeman who enters the footsteps of his overturned father (Detective Frank Drebin, who solves a confused murder case in earlier “naked weapons” rates of the deceased and legendary Leslie). Akiva Schaffer, known for the lonely island, led the film, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and Danny Huston.
The restart, which offers a meager 85-minute term, cost $ 42 million. Paramount had tried for years to revive the “Naked Gun” series, which began as a television program and continued with a trio of films, in 1988 by “The Naked Gun: From the files of a police squad”, 1991S “The Naked Gun 2½: The Smree of Fear” and 1994s “Naked Gun 33⅓: The Finale Itresult”. All three films were financial success, but that was in the days when the audience routinely went to the cinema to watch funny films. “The Naked Gun” is the rare comedy that plays in the cinemas and does not end up directly on a streaming service in which the viewer data is not reported uniformly.
“The Naked Gun” is probably the last theater publication under Brian Robbins, who has been running Paramount pictures since 2021 and has served as a CO CEO since 2024. He is expected to leave the company after selling to Skydance, who was clarified last week, and is expected to be closed in early August.
“Together”, which starts on Wednesday, is aiming for 7.5 to 10 million dollars in the five days. So far, the film has earned 1.3 million US dollars on Tuesday and early access demonstrations. Dave Franco and Alison Brie play as a couple that depends on a mysterious force, and causes terrible physical changes. Franco and Brie are married in real life. The film is located in lazy tomatoes with a rare average of 99% Variety Owen Gleiberman describes “together” as a lack of crowd. “The audience should have fun with” Together “, a film horror film about a serious thing-love-love that never takes itself too seriously,” he wrote in his review.
These reviews and the potential for large word of mouth is probably the reason why Neon spent $ 17 million for buying the film at Sundance, which marks one of the richest offers in the history of the festival. The studio has bowed to off-beat marketing tactics to promote “together”, such as offering the therapy of the free couple for partners who feel traumatized by the theater.
Also new to the cinemas is universal and Dreamworks animation -family -friendly “The Bad Guys 2”, which is expected to earn 20 to 25 million US dollars from 3,700 cinemas. This is even with the first animated adventure that collected 23 million US dollars in 2022 when the cinemas fought very much to recover from Covid. “The evil”, a robbery comedy about a crackerjack group of animal supplies, earned $ 250 million worldwide.
“The Bad Guys 2”, again with the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson and dozens of others, bears a price of $ 80 million. In the sequel, the reformed bad guys from retirement sees to carry out a last attack.
Overall, the box office is 12% before the previous year, but according to Comscore by almost 24% behind 2019, the last year of Pandemy. The income is $ 2.86 billion from May to the end of July, and analysts believe that this could be the second summer in the period after the covidal to exceed the milestone of $ 4 billion.
“August will bring the heat with the most diverse series of films from every genre,” says Paul Dergarabedian, Senior Comscore -Analyst.