It's already a critical failure, but now Fantastic Four is shaping up to be more like Fantastic Flop. After a dismal $11 million opening on Friday, the latest box office estimates have the reboot pegged as finishing the weekend with a paltry $28 million haul. Believe it or not, that's half of what the 2005 Fantastic Four movie earned and gives this one the dubious honour of having one of the worst openings in history for a superhero release. For a Marvel property, this is particularly bad, as even The Green Hornet brought in a haul of over $33 million back in 2011! It's a complete failure.
With analysts predicting that Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation will earn $29 million this weekend, it appears as if Fantastic Four won't even debut at #1, a crushing embarrassment for 20th Centrury Fox. There's a chance that the critically panned reboot could still get there, but abysmal word of mouth makes it unlikely. We'll just have to wait and see. Either way, it's hard to imagine Fox attempting a Fantastic Four sequel now as even bringing in someone like Bryan Singer or Matthew Vaughn probably wouldn't be enough to recapture the interests of moviegoers? Will they dare try a crossover with the X-Men? It's possible, but the studio might not want to taint that franchise...
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