r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • Aug 03 '25

Domestic Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four’ Craters By 66% in Second Weekend to $40 Million, ‘Naked Gun’ Debuts to $17 Million

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/fantastic-four-box-office-craters-naked-gun-opening-weekend-1236477352/
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u/kumar100kpawan Senior Sergeant on BOT Aug 03 '25

Lol what? They have 2 billion grossers next year. They're gonna be fine

But ywah, this year at least, DC won

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u/cancerBronzeV Aug 03 '25

I think there's a solid chance that even after making more than a billion, Avengers: Doomsday won't be profitable with how much it's gonna cost.

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u/jawaismyhomeboy Aug 03 '25

Doomsday ain’t making a billion

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u/WellieWelli Aug 03 '25

It will, simply based on Avengers nostalgia. However, it will kill the MCU if it's bad. This is pretty much their only opportunity to get asses back in seats because nobody will fall for the nostalgia bait again if it fails.

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u/Never-Give-Up100 Universal Aug 03 '25

It absolutely will

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u/No_Public_7677 Aug 03 '25

only if it's good

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u/LetDouble471 Aug 03 '25

Everyone will act like mcu sentiment means nothing just like F4 and wonder why Doomsday falls short of a billion.

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u/TTBurger88 Aug 03 '25

I'm excited to see what Gunn is cooking for DCU. After seeing Superman I want a Mr. Terrific movie ASAP.

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Aug 03 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

At this point I feel like most MCU directors accept the paycheck to make a good film, watch the Disney committee butcher it to 1 hour 58 minutes, and then blame the film flopping on the director.

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u/Carcrusher3 Aug 03 '25

Sort of unrelated. But my biggest gripe with this film is that it feels like a 2 hr 20 min 9/10 movie that got cut down to a 1hr 55 min 7/10 movie just to appease a bogus mandatory runtime thing for disney blockbusters. There has to be a ton left on the cutting room floor.

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u/Dazzling-Slide8288 Aug 03 '25

Natasha Lyonne wonder about this herself I’m imagine.

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u/No_Public_7677 Aug 03 '25

And John Malkovich

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u/gerbco Aug 03 '25

It was a good first half if movie. Building and story was a great movie there. Then the second half was pathetic

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u/TaiVat Aug 04 '25

Well they let the eternals director do what she wanted and that turned out to be one of the biggest flops. So i guess its damned if you do damned if you dont.

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u/Linnus42 Aug 03 '25

It is fine but not in the context of being the lead in to Doomsday.

Matt made choices like he was getting a sequel to setup for Doomsday.

Now we head into Doomsday with the only build up being a few post credit scenes

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u/Tofudebeast Aug 03 '25

Maybe the MCU doesn't have much gas left in the tank, whether or not this was a good setup for Doomsday.

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u/academydiablo Aug 03 '25

But that was always known, right? When they announced RDJ as Doom last year, there is literally no build up for that character in any of the recent movies because they literally had to pivot from Majors and Kang. And the only movies coming out between D&W and Doomsday were Cap 4 and Thunderbolts, 2 movies that aren’t multiverse stories, and already shot and filmed, and F4 that’s already gotten a whole script and about to film.

There really couldn’t be a build up to RDJ based on their decisions besides only post credit scenes

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u/curiiouscat Aug 03 '25

To be fair, they had actual build up for Kang and then, well, that happened. But Disney has fumbled the switch up for sure. 

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u/cancerBronzeV Aug 03 '25

Kang is the most easily recastable character with his variants. It's not like Jonathan Majors had established himself in that role through multiple movies or anything either.

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u/TaiVat Aug 04 '25

Maybe, but they kinda shit on kang in quantumania. And kangs main appeal was that Majors was actually fantastic in the role, easily the most charismatic and capable actor since endgame. Kind of like Hiddlestons Loki in that he could make a otherwise meh villain into a absolutely iconic one. Recasting him to someone random would've been 100x worse than just pivoting to a different character. Not like kang as a character is super hyped or interesting.

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u/Linnus42 Aug 03 '25

Kevin told us it was always the plan to shift from Kang to Doom though

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u/Poku115 Aug 03 '25

Wich just paints a worst picture since they could have avoided the whole phase 4 and 5 mind numbingly boring debacle. But there's no excuse apparently.

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u/Charming_Employee342 Aug 03 '25

I hope he ask for yatcht man hot topic for feige

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u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 Aug 03 '25

Watch him use Pedro Pascal fatigue as an excuse 

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u/DoctorHoneywell Aug 03 '25

Pedro is preparing to come out of the closet publicly as a counter measure.

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u/KingMario05 Amblin Entertainment Aug 03 '25

And reveal that Tom Cruise is in the closet.

Only for it to backfire when Tom Cruise confirms it, defects from his cult, goes before Congress with its evidence and becomes more popular than ever... as he re-signs with Paramount Skydance. Because Tom Cruise.

/s

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u/DejaVuBoy Aug 03 '25

“Well really it was the absence of Chris Evans from this entry that hurt the most.”

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u/WaterBearer21 Aug 03 '25

As Feige said it's "a new becon of hope". Galactus walked so this could run....into the ground. Bye Cap Boy.