Current Events > Fantastic Four has an 80 percent drop in week 2 Box Office

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How much did Superman drop?

It was actually the dullest film I've seen in theaters in a very long time.

I think people saying "fantastic four/X-Men will save MCU" have always been wrong

I think this is just the way most movie releases are going to be as time marches on. Everybody who is super excited about a film will go and see it opening weekend but the overwhelming majority of people are willing to just wait a few months and watch it when it hits a streaming service they are already paying for.

This is an unfair number but still not good

Last Friday includes Thursday preview numbers.

F4 fatigue maybe?
Released too close to Superman

Deadpool and wolverine made 1.3 b. Spider-man No way home made 1.9b. People still watch Marvel, but I guess they want specific kinds of Marvel.

Expect Doomsday to hit 2B.

Different levels of popularity. This was never going to be on the same level as those movies. Both of those films individually made more than the previous fantastic four films combined (probably same or at least close to even adjusting for inflation).
People were always going to turn out for a Spider Man film, they were always going to turn out for Deadpool. Marvel's problem is that they are still acting like it's the mid 2010's where they can put out literally anything with the Marvel name and it will perform in the upper hundreds of millions. That hasn't been the case for a while, and with the way the industry is right now, it will never be that way again. Marvel is going to keep losing money on these movies until the realize that and start budgeting things accordingly. If Guardians 1 had come out today, we'd likely be seeing the same box office woes.

Disgustingly bad take.

I've never gotten a good answer as to why he was given so many chances.

I think this is just the way most movie releases are going to be as time marches on. Everybody who is super excited about a film will go and see it opening weekend but the overwhelming majority of people are willing to just wait a few months and watch it when it hits a streaming service they are already paying for.

Fantastic Flop

Some Marvel fans don't know what they're missing. The Marvels failed big time, but I thought it was a great movie. Thunderbolts also failed, but it's an incredible movie with an incredible story. Maybe Marvel should have marketed these movies better. Thunderbolts you wouldn't know what makes it great if you didn't watch it and only watched the trailers.

It's less an issue of "missing" as much as it is a shift in how the general public views movies. I love the theater experience. Sit down, and watch a great movie on a big screen with booming audio, and a container of ludicrously expensive, but delicious popcorn in my hand. But most people don't care. The average person is just as happy happy watching the movie on their $200 42 inch walmart TV with tv speaker sound. For those people, why rush out to see it when you could wait a month or two and just watch it at home. The studios started pushing hard for streaming services and on demand viewing and shortening theatrical windows, and now they are reaping the consequences of that.

I don't know anything about this movie. Is this a sequel to the Fantastic 4 from 2005? Or a remake?

It's less an issue of "missing" as much as it is a shift in how the general public views movies. I love the theater experience. Sit down, and watch a great movie on a big screen with booming audio, and a container of ludicrously expensive, but delicious popcorn in my hand. But most people don't care. The average person is just as happy happy watching the movie on their $200 42 inch walmart TV with tv speaker sound. For those people, why rush out to see it when you could wait a month or two and just watch it at home. The studios started pushing hard for streaming services and on demand viewing and shortening theatrical windows, and now they are reaping the consequences of that.