The Fantastic Four: First Stepsis climbing up a major box office chart. The movie is the 37th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the interconnected superhero franchise from Marvel Studios, which is now owned by Walt Disney Studios.
2025’sThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsintroduces the titular superhero family to the franchise, which includes Mister Fantastic (Pedro Pascal), the Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby), the Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and the Human Torch (Joseph Quinn).The movie also stars Julia Garner, Natasha Lyonne, Mark Gatiss, Sarah Niles, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson.
PerThe Numbers,The Fantastic Four: First Stepshas hit a cumulative global box office total of $382.1 million, comprising $212 million from domestic theaters and $170.1 million from international markets. This total has allowed the movie to climb another spot up the chart of the highest-grossing Disney movies of all time, across their brands.
The Fantastic Four: First Stepshas hit No. 93 on the chart bysurpassing the $379.7 million gross of 2021’sBlack Widow, which was the first solo film for originalAvengerscharacter Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson.
What This Means For The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Black Widowmarks the fourth of the previousMarvel Cinematic Universe moviesthatThe Fantastic Four: First Stepshas outgrossed at the box office, afterThe Marvels($199.7 million),The Incredible Hulk($265.6 million), andCaptain America: The First Avenger($370.6 million). Naturally,this is not an uncommon achievement.
Marvel’s 2021 output suffered from the same pandemic-depressed box office that limited the profits of many blockbuster movies released in that year, which explains whythat same year’sEternalsandShang-Chiare also among the lowest-grossing MCU movies.
In order to surpass a stronger contender than the franchise’s 2021 offerings,theFantastic Four: First Stepsbox officewould have to take in an additional $67.2 millionin order to surpass the $449.3 million earned by 2011’sThor.
Our Take On The Fantastic Four: First Steps Box Office
One factor that is working inFantastic Four’s favor is the fact that, in spite of it stumbling 66% during its sophomore weekend at the domestic box office,it is still projected to earn between $520 and $570 millionby the end of its theatrical run. This would be more than enough for it to outgrossThor.
Even ifThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsonly hits the lower end of that range and grosses $520 million, it will surpass seven more MCU movies (Thunderbolts*,Eternals,Captain America: Brave New World,Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,Thor,Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, andAnt-Man) and climb to No. 68 on the all-time Disney chart.
