THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Has Now Passed The $500M Mark At The Global Box Office

Though it probably took a little longer to get there than many expected, Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps has now officially passed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office...

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By MarkCassidy - Aug 31, 2025 01:08 PM EST

Filed Under: Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four: First Steps has now passed what will be its final box office milestone. The Marvel Studios reboot has taken in just over $505 million worldwide on a reported production budget of $200 million (some reckon it was closer to $225M).

This means that First Steps should just about turn a profit, and has performed significantly better than both of Marvel's other 2025 releases, Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Even so, it's difficult to imagine the studio being overjoyed with this result, as analysts believe Kevin Feige and his execs were hoping for a Deadpool and Wolverine-size smash hit (or close enough) with this one.

Still, Marvel/Disney are said to be pleased enough with the movie's BO performance to greenlight a sequel, as rumors point to early talks with director Matt Shakman to take the helm of a second FF film. Apparently, the belief is that the team's involvement in Avengers: Doomsday will allow audiences to become more familiar with the characters.

In other box office news, DC Studios and director James Gunn's Superman now sits at just over $610 million worldwide.

Global #BoxOffice UPDATE:#JurassicWorldRebirth - $337.9M dom/$517.3M intl/$855.2M ww#F1TheMovie - $187.8M/$425.2M/$613M#Superman - $351M/$259.7M/$610.7M#FantasticFour - $264.6M/$240.5M/$505.1M#Weapons - $132.4M/$100M/$232.4M
— Gitesh Pandya (TikTok @gitesh.pandya) (@GiteshPandya) August 31, 2025

First Steps stars Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning) as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things, A Quiet Place Day One) as Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Punisher, The Bear) as Ben Grimm, aka the Thing, and Julia Garner (Wolf Man, Ozark) as the Silver Surfer.

Ralph Ineson plays Galactus, with Natasha Lyonne as a new character named Rachel Rozman, and Paul Walter Hauser as Mole Man. John Malkovich's Red Ghost was cut from the movie.

"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."

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now in theaters.

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movieguy18 - 8/31/2025, 1:02 PM

Cue the trolls who are gonna scream flop, flop, flop.

SuperiorHeckler - 8/31/2025, 1:12 PM

@movieguy18 - In comparison to the INFINITY SAGA days? Yes it most certainly is. 🫤

TheShellyMan - 8/31/2025, 1:15 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - It broke even, it's not.

SuperiorHeckler - 8/31/2025, 1:17 PM

@TheShellyMan - Depends on which leaked studio final costs you want to believe. 🤔

AllsGood - 8/31/2025, 1:23 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - Don't Worry Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars and Spider-Man: Brand New Day is Coming 2026 and 2027.

Nonameforme - 8/31/2025, 1:25 PM

@movieguy18 - it is a flop when you consider the studio

BaddestOptics - 8/31/2025, 1:38 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - "when you compare it to the most successful thing ever..." not exactly superior heckling, brother.

TheShellyMan - 8/31/2025, 1:47 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - Following your logic, The First Avenger, Thor, and Ant-Man are all flops.

vectorsigma - 8/31/2025, 2:00 PM

@movieguy18 - cue the blind marvel loyalists calling this a W and Superman a flop 😭😭😭

CreateNowSlpL8r - 8/31/2025, 2:12 PM

@TheShellyMan - Incorrect. Budgets are way different and you have to adjust for inflation.

If they counted nunber of tickets sold instead of some BS number, it wouldnt be close.

TheShellyMan - 8/31/2025, 2:21 PM

@CreateNowSlpL8r - The First Avenger cost $140M + marketing grossed $370M. Thor cost $150M+, and marketing grossed $449M. They weren't heavy hitters then.

TheLobster - 8/31/2025, 2:30 PM

@TheShellyMan - a 200+ million dollar tentpole breaking even at the end of its box office run is not a success lol

lazlodaytona - 8/31/2025, 2:45 PM

@AllsGood - I don't think we're worried

AllsGood - 8/31/2025, 2:55 PM

@lazlodaytona - Billions and Billions and Billions at the Box Office.

lvcl - 8/31/2025, 2:57 PM

@AllsGood -

A small amount for a Fantastic Four movie. In this case, not only do we have to add the marketing costs, but we also have to add the cost Disney assumed when purchasing the rights and from 20th Century Fox.

They could have made much more with the real Silver Surfer, Norin Radd, and another actor who would have been a better fit for Reed Richard.

By insisting on indoctrinating us with gender ideology and the WOKE doctrine,

Disney will continue to lose viewers, and the audiences they've disappointed will never return.

Assuming the current situation, Doomsday and Secret Wars will both be box office flops.

AllsGood - 8/31/2025, 3:14 PM

@lvcl - Not with Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Scarlet Witch, Deadpool, Wolverine, Steve Rodgers and the rest MCU cast.

DarkBloop - 8/31/2025, 3:34 PM

@AllsGood - can't wait for it.

dragon316 - 8/31/2025, 3:47 PM

@lvcl - I like woke cooking .,

If movie stay same with male silver surfer and different male actor as reed it will not have made big difference for profit of this film will have earned.,

If you put chocolate sauce , bbq sauce , syrup on piece of shit will it make taste better ? Same with movie different actor for reed , male version silver surfer movie stay same , be same outcome

Matchesz - 8/31/2025, 4:33 PM

@movieguy18 - this just sets the precedent for more mid marvel films

Nolanite - 8/31/2025, 4:55 PM

@AllsGood -

And once again those films will flop just like The Fantastic Flop did.

Nolanite out

Malatrova15 - 8/31/2025, 1:04 PM

Gotas say ....this Aint fantastic

SuperiorHeckler - 8/31/2025, 1:18 PM

@Malatrova15 - Ultimately, it was more like "THE SATISFACTORY FOUR". 🫤

Bucky74 - 8/31/2025, 3:16 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - The adequate Four, lol. I enjoyed the film a lot and thought it was a quality product despite finding Pedro I sufferable and odd in real life but the audience wasn’t there like Marvel needed. They saw female Silver Sufer (I missed Norran but did like Johnny’s flirting with her) and Pascal and assumed it was another agenda piece when it wasn’t and was actually a really good family adventure

dragon316 - 8/31/2025, 3:49 PM

@Bucky74 - I can deal with things you mentioned but movie itself for me was boring slow full fantastic four chris evans had better pacing more fun factor to see not boring and Johnny being Johnny with members it was about team not one member as 2025 version was about

dragon316 - 8/31/2025, 3:49 PM

@dragon316 - glad you like it

Bucky74 - 8/31/2025, 3:53 PM

@dragon316 - Evan's Johnny was more fun, and it could have used the extended action scene with Red Ghost, but I went in with low expectations and really enjoyed the film.

gambgel - 8/31/2025, 1:06 PM

none in their sane mind would have expect this reboot to do Deadpool & Wolverine numbers lol.
That movie had the 2 most popular mutants from the Fox era, with 2 big stars.

Fantastic Four team NEVER had a big boxoffice, never reached 400m at Fox. So.... Marvel execs cant be that blind. a 1billion movie would have to be earned, after a few movies or appearing first on a big/beloved movie. This wasnt the case.

So... yeah 500m is pretty good for the third version of these characters. Taking into account the genre current state, congrats to F4 fans, imho.

TheShellyMan - 8/31/2025, 1:52 PM

@gambgel - Yeah, it's decent. Nothing ground-breaking.

GirshwinDavies - 8/31/2025, 1:10 PM

Lmfaoooo

SuperiorHeckler - 8/31/2025, 1:11 PM

I can still remember a time when an MCU movie "only" topping-off at approximately $500 million would have been judged as an abject box-office failure.

The bar has truly been lowered... 🫤

WalletsClosed - 8/31/2025, 2:05 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - The MCU is dead

Bucky74 - 8/31/2025, 3:18 PM

@SuperiorHeckler - Didn’t Quantum Mania make more? That film was considered a big failure and was a part of the reason (along with Major’s assault) that they pivoted away from Kang

Superheromoviefan - 8/31/2025, 1:13 PM

i hate people

HistoryofMatt - 8/31/2025, 1:14 PM

Marketing for this film was at least $100M. There were way more commercials on TV for this than Superman.

It will come NOWHERE CLOSE to breaking even, if the all-in cost is $325M. The break-even point is then $650.

Why do both of the main writers here keep on lying about this movie? It's yet another box office bomb money loser for Disney.

CreateNowSlpL8r - 8/31/2025, 2:17 PM

@HistoryofMatt - If they really wanted to compare movies, they would count ticket sales, wouldnt lie about the budget, wouldnt need the access media to shill, and wouldnt need to adjust for inflation.

Im also tired of posting what everyone knows. Domestic take is avg. 50%. Overseas it can be as low as 25%.

The only reason Disney gets away with this is the investor money that comes in.

dragon316 - 8/31/2025, 3:52 PM

@HistoryofMatt - how you know what marketing cost ? How much it needs earn be success ?

HistoryofMatt - 8/31/2025, 4:06 PM

@dragon316 - Marketing is usually about 25-50% of the total budget, then those numbers are added together to give you the "all-in" price.

Claiming this movie has broken even at $500 when it has a $225M budget BEFORE marketing is absolutely a lie.

AllsGood - 8/31/2025, 1:15 PM

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Has Now Passed The $500M Mark At The Global Box Office

jasonvoorhees - 8/31/2025, 1:25 PM

@AllsGood - There's nothing to celebrate.

AllsGood - 8/31/2025, 1:32 PM

@jasonvoorhees - Marvel Studios Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars and Spider-Man: Brand New Day is Coming 2026 and 2027.

AND One Un-Named movie is coming in 2027.

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Has Now Passed The $500M Mark At The Global Box Office

Though it probably took a little longer to get there than many expected, Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps has now officially passed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office...

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Concept Art Shows Reed Richards Making Better Use Of His Stretching Powers

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Concept Art Reveals A Touching Moment That Didn't Make The Final Cut

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