THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Eyes Impressive $210M Global Box Office Launch Following Glowing Reviews

We finally have updated tracking data for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and all signs point to the movie being a hit when Marvel's First Family launches at the worldwide box office. Read on for details!

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By JoshWilding - Jul 22, 2025 06:07 PM EST

Filed Under: Fantastic Four

Source: Deadline

The first reviews for The Fantastic Four: First Steps have been, for lack of a better word, fantastic. Now, Deadline has shared some updated tracking data a couple of days before the Marvel Studios reboot arrives in theaters.

According to the trade, it's currently eyeing a $190 million - $210 million global launch, not a bad start for a team of superheroes best known for starring in bad movies.

$90 million - $100 million is the expected international haul, with a conservative $100 million - $110 million North American debut expected. Why conservative? Well, it was only a couple of days ago that we were hearing $130 million - $140 million. We'll see what happens this weekend.

Superman opened to $220 million at the worldwide box office, so it's proving to be a good summer for Marvel and DC as both studios look to shrug off so-called "superhero fatigue."

Advance tickets for The Fantastic Four: First Steps went on sale seven weeks ago and currently sit at $20 million, the same amount Superman made before its $125 million U.S. debut. It's not a contest, but we're sure Kevin Feige is happy this relaunch hasn't been flattened by the Man of Tomorrow.

The movie has been "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, and that should be a big help heading into the weekend. Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* both underperformed earlier this year, so the MCU will benefit from a box office hit.

In our review, we concluded, "The Fantastic Four is an exceptional introduction to the MCU’s First Family, and thanks to a Jack Kirby-infused feel that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before, it proves to be a quintessential superhero movie with Marvel Studios at its brilliant best."

Are you excited to watch The Fantastic Four: First Steps this weekend?

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm/The Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) as they face their most daunting challenge yet.

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus (Ralph Ineson) and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner). And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.

Paul Walter Hauser, ~~John Malkovich~~, Natasha Lyonne, and Sarah Niles have been cast in supporting roles. Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom is rumoured to appear, though that's surely a given with Avengers: Doomsday on the way.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is directed by Matt Shakman from a screenplay by Josh Friedman and Eric Pearson and Jeff Kaplan & Ian Springer.

The movie is set to be released in theaters on July 25, 2025.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Review: A Quintessential Superhero Movie With Marvel At Its Brilliant Best

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GirshwinDavies - 7/22/2025, 6:38 PM

Crank Yankum!

AwesomePromoz - 7/22/2025, 7:28 PM

It’s kind of magical that CBMs are making their big return this summer with their respective OG titles. Superman and Fantastic Four.

Comicmoviejunki - 7/22/2025, 10:12 PM

@AwesomePromoz - *mind blown

TheVisionary25 - 7/22/2025, 6:42 PM

Honestly , if it has rewatchability which will help its legs then I could see it making somewhere to 600-700 million…

The month of August has competition from the likes of The Bad Guys 2 ,The Naked Gun & Weapons amongst others but I don’t see those taking a sizable chunk of FF’s BO since there’s little crossover there I feel.

Latverian - 7/22/2025, 6:47 PM

I wish that were the case, but that seems like too high of a goal, even if the movie does turn out to be as good as promised.

Thunderbolts* is proof enough that MS needs a continuous streak in order to earn back the general audiences' trust, not just a handful of scarce successes.

dragon316 - 7/22/2025, 7:25 PM

@Latverian - transformers own add to list

McMurdo - 7/22/2025, 10:24 PM

@Latverian - sounds like the film drops all character development when Galactus becomes the focal point and that Pedro and Kirby have zero chemistry, and Reed is written precisely how he looks in the trailers. Mopey. All the negative reviews state they are one dimensional.

" Each of the team members is fairly one-dimensional: Reed is off-putting and sciencey, Ben is a lonely lug, Johnny is an impulsive hothead, Sue is a mom, and the subplots given to the two non-parents are perfunctory. Johnny is obsessed with space recordings for some reason, and then that loops into his relationship with the Silver Surfer. Ben just wants love and has a brief set of interactions with a local religious leader."

"the script doesn’t have much interest in the Fantastic Four as living, breathing characters, all of its eventual exhausting platitudes about the strength of the family unit fall flat. If we don’t have a reason to care about them individually other than being told that we should, it creates a hollowness at the film’s core.

It’s also difficult to shake the casting woes. While I believe Pascal is a wonderful actor, he is fairly miscast as Reed, which strips the actor of his trademark warmth in exchange for a halting, distant performance. It’s a stretch (ugh) to say the least. And the lack of chemistry between Kirby and Pascal is palpable"

RockReigns - 7/22/2025, 6:48 PM

Fantastic Four $210M: Impressive 🥰
Superman $220M: Failure 😤

Chris827 - 7/22/2025, 7:38 PM

@RockReigns - Do you honestly not understand things like budget, expectations, what character it is etc?

Would you stupidly ask if something like Black Panther 3 made the same amount as Supergirl and Black Panther was called a failure and Supergirl a success?

Superman has a bigger budget, is a bigger IP and kicking off an entire universe.

spr0cks - 7/22/2025, 7:39 PM

@RockReigns - Fantastic Four - Bar to clear :- Josh Trank's 2015 remake/reboot: total Box Office gross - $168 Million

Superman 2025- Bar to clear :- 2013's Man of Steel - total Box office gross : - $670 Million.

One of these two movies will easily clear the bar from a previous remake/rendition.
Can you guess which one?

That should explain it to you.

Apophis71 - 7/22/2025, 7:54 PM

@spr0cks - TBF I'd put passing the prior adaption aside I will not name I feel the bar for THIS version of the Fantastic Four is more sensibly passing Thunderbolts and Cap4. Does it need to do far better than that, idealy obviously but that is the lowest bar it needs to hit.

I don't in fact think the bar for any film since 21's should be considered that of one pre 2020 cos the BO has never gotten back to the numbers of the decade prior to COVID yet (that isn't to say it is impossible, just incredibly unlikely outside of the likes of NWH).

So yes idealy Superman wanted to pass unadjusted numbers for MoS but the aim was better than the last three DCEU movies and target getting at least close to The Batman's numbers with little odds it would do better than that so if did would be a HUGE win (as Batman is simply more popular/trusted as an IP and has been for a while even after BvS).

RolandD - 7/22/2025, 8:57 PM

@Apophis71 - In 2019 we had 9, that’s right 9 movies cross a billion and one more than double that. In ALL of the years since we have had 8 billion + movies. I really fail to see why so many on here are comparing to pre-pandemic numbers. We have not gotten back to that and maybe never will. I’m looking at you @spr0cks among others.

mountainman - 7/22/2025, 9:18 PM

@RolandD - We do have to adjust expectations based on how the overall box office has been down over the past 5 years. That being said, I wonder when the studios will adjust budgets to reflect this new reality. No way they can keep losing money on big budget movies forever.

RolandD - 7/22/2025, 9:34 PM

@mountainman - You have an excellent point about budgets. I agree.

RockReigns - 7/22/2025, 9:51 PM

@Chris827 - F4 cost the same to produce.

RockReigns - 7/22/2025, 9:52 PM

@spr0cks - lmao no that isn’t what makes something successful.

GeneralZod - 7/23/2025, 12:05 AM

@RolandD - I think we can get back to pre-pandemic numbers. It's just a matter of putting out good, exciting product. The proof is NWH ($1.9 billion) and DP/W ($1.3 billion despite R) in 2022 and 2024, respectively. Focus on the characters people like (mostly men, with masculinity, absolutely nothing wrong with that in the context of superhero films), drop agenda, cast likeable actors. Neither NWH nor DP/W were Marvel Studios films -- they used legacy actors that people love. Write good stories. Add a love interest or two that isn't just Peter Parker and MJ, the way Tony had Pepper, Steve had Peggy, etc. -- female viewers love that stuff. We can get there again. I really like what Gunn did casting Corenswet as Superman. I haven't seen FF, but maybe the 4 of them truly gel. Remember that first Avengers movie in 2012? I remember walking in thinking it could well be a train-wreck, and I walked out thinking, "damn, they pulled it off." That is when the MCU really started taking off. The studios have to get back to that. 2021 to the first half of 2025 was tough with a lot of agenda-driven slop that tired out the normies -- no one wanted to see Eternals, or The Marvels, or emasculated Thor, an unlikeable actor casted for Shang-Chi, or female BP in BP2, a terribly-casted Namor, no one wanted to see Ezra Miller as Flash, and so on. This is the time to turn it around.

Apophis71 - 7/22/2025, 6:49 PM

Well start of the release week with Superman numbers were down as potentialy as low as 90 domestic prior to ending Sunday on 125 so I am guessing the guestimates are hedging their bets thinking slightly lower overseas and where they put the domestic prediction between similar figures they got it wrong with for Supes and what the DC film actualy landed on.

IOW I don't trust these numbers at all, and not even gonna try and guess what they will be beyond likely similarish to Superman WWBO but maybe a differing split, falling short of that or surpassing however are easily possible to my mind.

I hope it is good and hope it does well anyway regardless what the predictions are and where the numbers ultimately end up :D

theprophet - 7/22/2025, 6:58 PM

It'll probably make more than that

YouIknowiamsexy - 7/22/2025, 8:26 PM

@theprophet - No it wont! 🤣😂 I really dont think this will make over $100M OW in the USA. There's no hype for this movie.

blitzburgh - 7/22/2025, 9:42 PM

@YouIknowiamsexy - shut it hater

Comicmoviejunki - 7/22/2025, 10:14 PM

@YouIknowiamsexy - I have hype for your mom

theprophet - 7/22/2025, 10:25 PM

@YouIknowiamsexy - it will 100% make over 100m

MisterDoctor217 - 7/22/2025, 7:05 PM

That’s good I guess
But oh boy lost are the days of consistent box office hits, now we only get some flukes here and there like with Deadpool and Wolverine.

gambgel - 7/22/2025, 7:11 PM

a 210m debut is not impressive.

Its a good number? yes.

but impressive is not.
Impressive for a cbm would be 350m or so, like past Marvel or DC hits. But these days, a 200m debut its decent.

BlackStar25 - 7/22/2025, 8:26 PM

@gambgel - Its important to note though...of the 13 Cbms to have a 350m or more opening worldwide, only 2 were first entries(Black Panther and Captain Marvel) and those were boosted by being the last films to follow-up an Avengers movies. You could add The Avengers as a 3rd candidate was well.

I personally think a 200m opening is very good back in the day but these days it is decent so I agree with that.

Mongrol - 7/22/2025, 7:15 PM

It will have good legs that will stretch like Reed's.

Apophis71 - 7/22/2025, 7:31 PM

@Mongrol - Assuming the audience scores come in similar to Superman's it will have super stretchy legs for a CBM blockbuster, yes. I'd call a win passing $600M WWBO the way the BO has been of late and but with good legs even with a slower than normal start no reason it couldn't go much higher than that.

What it NEEDS to do, like Superman is a minimum of $500M (below break even but close enough it can make that up in the long run with digital sales, streaming and merch etc), remain in the 80's with critics and land in the 90's RT score with audiences. Achieving that at least to cont rebuilding brand trust and solid foundations for Doomsday will be good enough even if far from ideal.

If both this and Superman are indeed better than JW then I just want both to at least overtake that at the BO for at minimum 3rd and 4th for the year (thus far) as unfortunatly odds of any overtaking Minecraft or Lilo&Stitch remains low until Wicked for Good and Zootopia 2 barring any surprises from what I can see on the release calender (then obviously Avatar is probably gonna take the number one slot such is things).

Mongrol - 7/22/2025, 10:14 PM

@Apophis71 -

I expect F4 to surpass Superman

MyCoolYoung - 7/22/2025, 8:03 PM

Let’s say we put our money together and get it from 210 million to 210,000,050. How bout it?

Wahhvacado - 7/22/2025, 8:08 PM

Hope it is good and does well! Always want more quality content

Nomis929 - 7/22/2025, 8:26 PM

a'ight..heading for my spoiler protected "bunker" til I see the movie.

Excelsior!!

blitzburgh - 7/22/2025, 9:43 PM

@Nomis929 - bahahahaha

TheShellyMan - 7/22/2025, 8:27 PM

"THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Eyes Impressive $210M Global Box Office Launch Following Glowing Reviews"... It's opening larger than Superman... $230M-$245M+ global debut.

SuperCat - 7/22/2025, 8:30 PM

RolandD - 7/22/2025, 8:59 PM

@SuperCat - That’s a great one. The perspective is perfect.

Thing94 - 7/22/2025, 8:32 PM

Come on get $300 million global!!!

RolandD - 7/22/2025, 9:00 PM

@Thing94 - I would be shocked if it does that but here’s hoping.

SuperCat - 7/22/2025, 9:31 PM

@RolandD - Thanks :D

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Eyes Impressive $210M Global Box Office Launch Following Glowing Reviews

We finally have updated tracking data for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and all signs point to the movie being a hit when Marvel's First Family launches at the worldwide box office. Read on for details!

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Review: "A Quintessential Superhero Movie With Marvel At Its Brilliant Best"

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS' Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed

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