Now You See The Running Man: Now You Don't | The Domestic Box Office Thread | Nov. 14-16

[wire28]

or the nerds are going to see these films and the casuals aren't.

Tick tock

Direct to streaming, like Thanos, is inevitable

 

[The_Sheff]

I'll just wait for D+ like everyone else.

 

[duckbutta]

There was a time when the GA would go catch anything with the Marvel Studios logo attached but those days are long gone.

I remember when I went to go see The Marvels on preview night and bruh…you would’ve thought I was catching a screening of an A24 indie with how sparse it was in there. I kid you not, I only heard one gasp in that whole theater when Kelsey Grammer cameo’d as Beast and it came from the dude sitting a few seats over from me, with a hand over his mouth as if he just witnessed Thanos snap his fingers for the first time.

I didn’t hate the movie but I walked out of that theater thinking damn, this is where we’re at now huh?

To be expected when you on your damn near 40th big screen release movie, about the same number of animated movies in that length of time, and tv shows that run year round. Nobody is in a rush to see a marvel movie. People have been watching them for almost 20 years now.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I didn't see Fantastic Four until yesterday, and I was wondering why it seemed like nobody was talking about it.

Usually every Marvel movie has tons of discussions and spoilers by like the Saturday after it comes out

 

[FlyRy]

 

[BaileyPark31]

They should secretly bring back Kang for Doomsday

 

[Red Shield]

The movie wasn't bad... but when folks at my screening left they said it was boring. And yeah it was boring..

doomsday, secret wars, and the next spidey should do well tho

 

[Avisible Man]

The Not So Fantastic Four Falls after Promising First Steps: Weekend Box Office Results (Aug. 1-3)​

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Flame on? Nah, more like "it's floppering time" for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which produced a $40M second frame. This is Disney, so that will almost assuredly be $39.something million come tomorrow. Chanel reporting shenanigans aside, That's nearly 8 million more than Marvel's last entry. Thunderbolts* was able to muster when it made $32.3M in its second weekend. However, that was only a 56.4% drop for Thunderbolts*, whereas The First Steps is back to the par for the course 66% decline that we've seen with recent entries in the MCU, especially Phase 5:

• Captain America: Brave New World: $28,170,093 -68.3%
• The Marvels: $10,120,589-78.1%
• Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania: $31,964,803-69.9%
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: $66,482,266-63.3%
• Thor: Love and Thunder: $46,632,172-67.7%
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: $61,755,804-67%
• Spider-Man: No Way Home: $84,548,505-67.5% (only on a pure percentage basis)
• Eternals: $26,850,128-62.3%

Contrast contrast that with the recent Superman release, which had a very good hold when it dropped by only 53.2% in its second weekend when it made $58.4M. And both movies had an identical A- CinemaScore. So much for good word of mouth.

I mean that's only a slightly better hold than the 2015 Fantastic Four movie which dropped by 68.2% when it made a poultry $8.1M. The 2005 Fantastic Four actually retained more of its audience when in made $22.7M and fell by "only" 59.4%. And it's somehow worse than The Silver Surfer's -65.5% tumble in 2007.

But, hey, The First Steps has made $198.4M - already $8.2M more than Thunderbolts*'s $190.2M. And it will pass Captain America: Brave New World's $200.5M tomorrow, which will make it the 10th lowest grossing movie in the MCU, for the moment.

Universal's The Bad Guys 2 debuted with $21.9M. The original opened with $23.9M in 2022.

The other big new entry this weekend was The Naked Gun, with a $16.8M opening. It's the fourth entry in the Naked Gun franchise and first since 1994. Yet, it's only the second best opening in the franchise behind Naked Gun 2's $20.8M.

Coming in fourth was a bird, no, a plane. No. It was Superman with $13.9M. It's now pulled in $316.2M, making it the 9th DC film (and first in the new DCU) to cross $300M domestically. It's neck and neck with Jurassic World Rebirth, and is currently the 4th highest grossing movie of the year.

Speaking of Jurassic World, Rebirth closed our the top five with $8.7M. It's up to $317.6M, just ahead of Superman, thanks to a one week head start, and the third biggest movie of the year. That's 9.4% behind Jurassic World Dominion's $350.5M after 5 weekends. So perhaps a $340.6M finale for Rebirth when it's all said and done in theaters.

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Top Ten​

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Rank​	LW​	Movie​	Gross ​	%± LW​	Theaters​	Total Gross​	Weekend​	Distributor​
1	1	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	$40,000,000	-66%	4,125	$198,427,635	2	Disney
2	-	The Bad Guys 2	$22,200,000	-	3,852	$22,200,000	1	Universal
3	-	The Naked Gun	$17,000,000	-	3,344	$17,000,000	1	Paramount
4	2	Superman	$13,900,000	-44.1%	3,537	$316,256,392	4	Warner Bros.
5	3	Jurassic World Rebirth	$8,700,000	-34.1%	3,240	$317,606,265	5	Universal
6	-	Together	$6,802,000	-	2,302	$10,858,502	1	Neon
7	4	F1: The Movie	$4,100,000	-35%	2,024	$173,290,512	6	Warner Bros.
8	6	I Know What You Did Last Summer	$2,650,000	-49%	2,303	$29,268,554	3	Sony
9	5	Smurfs	$1,770,000	-67.6%	2,295	$28,502,397	3	Paramount
10	7	How to Train Your Dragon	$1,350,000	-53.5%	1,459	$260,408,625	8	Universal

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

The movie wasn't bad... but when folks at my screening left they said it was boring. And yeah it was boring..

doomsday, secret wars, and the next spidey should do well tho

 

[CarltonJunior]

The end of phase 3 was in July 2019. But they got back the X-Men in MARCH of 2019. And we won't really see any mutant content until 2027?

Sad, that's all I can say.

We have gotten mutant “content”, dr strange 2, deadpool and wolverine, ms marvel (smh), xmen 97, the marvels, just no proper xmen film.

And really i think it comes down to the fact that they got ahead of themselves after endgame and didnt think they needed a true xmen film since every C and D level hero was doing a billi

 

[sjankis630]

I didn't go see this but the all CGI Galactus looked so cheesy to me. How was he on screen?

 

[CarltonJunior]

I didn't go see this but the all CGI Galactus looked so cheesy to me. How was he on screen?

He looked good, the only scenes that looked bad to me was the actual F4 scenes themselves outside of johnnys and sometimes sues

I dont think theres really a better way to put a giant space man on screen than how they did it in this

 

[winb83]

Marvel just needs to accept at this point that outside of Avengers movies there isn't the audience desire for all these other projects. They should have been doing stuff like Fantastic 4 instead of making all those Antman movies.

 

[FlyRy]

They said f4 was 70% male opening weekend.

Curious to how the new avengers movie does since it's full of underperforming characters who got no sequel . We'll see if people still care about the legacy characters

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Part of it is the "dead universe effect"

People know a reboot is coming so what's the point of getting invested in any new movies in this universe? People say only all the time that they're waiting for Doomsday / Secret Wars.

DC had the same problem with its last couple of movies b4 the reboot with superman.