The Fantastic Four: First Steps stretched, flamed, went invisible, and rocked, and audiences around the country went, “That’s nice.” The newest Marvel film scored $118 million domestically on its opening weekend, per Box Office Mojo. That makes it the highest-grossing Marvel opening weekend this year, compared to Thunderbolts*’s $74 million domestic opening and Captain America: Brave New World’s $80 million. Score! Granted, that opening is still pretty soft in the grand history of Marvel movies, which, pre-COVID, were bringing in numbers like $179 million (Captain America: Civil War) and $180 million (Thor: Ragnarok). But given that Disney predicted on July 25 that the movie would make $110 million in its opening weekend, the $8 million overperformance is a win.
However … that means that DC’s Superman wins the 2025 comic-book-movie opening-weekend race. The David Corenswet–starring film made $125 million domestically in its opening weekend beginning July 11, about $7 million higher than Fantastic Four. It’s a leg up for James Gunn’s embattled DC Studios, which is using Superman to kickstart a whole new beginning to its cinematic universe. No new DC or Marvel films are scheduled to come out anytime in 2025, so Superman hasn’t won just the summer but the whole year. Turns out that in the battle of superdom, Americans prefer super-dog to super-fetus.
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But Superman is our 2025 comic-book box-office champ.
