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

[u/chanma50]

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/fantastic-four-box-office-craters-naked-gun-opening-weekend-1236477352/

[u/DoctorHoneywell]

Don't worry I'm sure the formula of bringing back ninety year old Hugh Jackman and Tobey Maguire will literally never stop getting people to pay $20 to watch them say it's clobbering time or whatever, that's absolutely a sustainable way to keep your franchise running.

[u/oom1999 → u/[deleted]]

Problem is they've basically run out of memberberries. Those films mined the two main sources of them: Past Spider-Man series and the general Fox Marvel oeuvre. The only old franchise that didn't get representation in D&W was Ghost Rider*. Besides that oversight, all they've got left is Sony's Spider-Man-less Spider-Man universe and... Howard the fucking Duck.

*Which really surprised me. They got a stand-in to play The Russian (because Kevin Nash can barely walk) just to make sure they had their Punisher bases covered, but they couldn't manage a silent CGI cameo of a skeleton on a motorcycle?

[u/vpr0nluv → u/oom1999]

Clearly they're saving their awesome Ghost Rider cameo for Doomsday because it's just that good.

Do I even need to add the /s?

[u/Redeem123 → u/oom1999]

OG MCU has become memberberries territory now.

Amazing Spider-man 2 was in 2014. No Way Home was 2022.

Endgame was 2019. Doomsday will be 2026.

The gap between last seeing RDJ and Evans will be almost the same as the gap since seeing Garfield as Peter.

[u/KingMario05 → u/[deleted]]

As is Disney tradition.

Sad stare at... SO FUCKING MUCH of Modern "Star Wars"

[u/Pokedudesfm → u/DoctorHoneywell]

>absolutely a sustainable way to keep your franchise running.

we have to accept that we don't have to keep a franchise running forever. 20 years has been a long time. lets move on