Marvel’s first family has blasted off in fantastic fashion with $218 million in its opening weekend at the box office.
Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps — which is the iconic Super Hero team’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) following The Walt Disney Company’s 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox — grossed $118 million at the domestic box office this weekend, with an additional $100 million on the international side.
This makes it the 37th consecutive title from the MCU to open No. 1 at the box office.
And, The Walt Disney Company has now passed $3 billion at the box office in 2025. This is the fourth consecutive year that Disney achieved this milestone, currently sitting at $3.19 billion globally in ticket sales.
The unique, 1960’s-inspired, retro-futuristic look of The Fantastic Four: First Steps lends itself to being seen on the big screen, and domestic audiences took advantage of that opportunity, with 46% of the total box office coming from Premium Large Format, IMAX, 3D, or specialty formats (4DX, D-Box, ScreenX). The film showed in 4,125 locations domestically.
The Fantastic Four’s introduction to the MCU has been welcomed by critics and fans alike, as The Fantastic Four: First Steps is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with an 88% Critics Score and a 93% Verified Audience score.
It’s also holding a strong A- CinemaScore, while PostTrak reports 4.5 out of 5 stars across all segments, with 86% Total Positive reviews and 62% reporting that the new film is “Excellent.”
“Every big storyline that we’ve adapted to make our films, the Fantastic Four appeared in some version of them in the comics, from the Avengers to the Infinity Gauntlet to Civil War,” Kevin Feige, producer and President, Marvel Studios said. “But they weren’t in any of the movies because we didn’t have the rights to them. [Once we gained the rights to the characters], that gave us a huge opportunity to establish them, on their own, in an alternate universe.”
Fans of The Fantastic Four can also see the super team beyond the big screen. Guests visiting Disneyland Park currently have the opportunity to encounter the first family of Super Heroes as they make select appearances in Tomorrowland. They’re joined in the area alongside their cute, faithful robot assistant H.E.R.B.I.E., with select appearances also coming soon to Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort.
Set in a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, the movie begins four years after Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn), and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) were exposed to cosmic rays that gave them extraordinary abilities and powers. Known individually as Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing, respectively, the team is collectively known as The Fantastic Four.
In this alternate universe — Earth-828, to be precise — they are celebrities and leaders who inspire and protect the people of Earth. But, first and foremost, they are a real family with real problems. They stretch themselves too thin. They don’t always feel seen. They can be hotheaded. Things can get under their rock-hard skin. But at the end of the day, they always have each other’s backs — and that’s never truer than when a cosmic entity, Galactus (Ralph Ineson), threatens to devour Earth and steal Reed and Sue’s son, Franklin.
