Audiences were also not pleased and gave the movie a CinemaScore of C-.
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“Fantastic Four“, a reboot of the comic book franchise about four youths transported to an alternate universe where they gain superpowers, debuted to poor reviews and a disappointing $26.2 million take. The film has been savaged by critics and was dogged by reports of creative difficulties.
Another downside: Trank tweeting that the final release wasn’t his “fantastic version” of the film and then deleting it, which was reported by a number of media outlets. It’s the worst opening for a movie featuring Marvel Comics’ characters since “Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance” debuted to $22.1 million in 2012.
Reed Richards (Miles Teller) and Sue Storm (Kate Mara) can only watch as “Fantastic Four” stares into the commercial and critical abyss.
As Forbes noted, “It would have nearly been madness to predict that Fantastic Four was going to perform as badly as it did this weekend”. It’s far from good news for Fox, which had already dated a sequel and was considering possibilities for crossovers with the X-Men movies.
The R-rated thriller The Gift, starring and directed by Australian actor Joel Edgerton, opened in third this weekend with $12 million. It takes it domestic haul to north of $145 million, giving the studio yet another blockbuster. But because of this, it led Fox to delay script approval, which in turn prevented crew workers, set builders, costumer designers, and more from working on the movie, creating an atmosphere of confusion and stress. Matthew Vaughn’s very good “Kingsmen” made a very tidy $128 million. “Rogue Nation“, in its second week at No.1, earned $29.4 million to pass the $100 million mark. Analysts had been expecting an opening of around $40 million-and even considered that weak for a film with franchise potential that cost about $120 million to produce. Its great reviews – 99% on Rotten Tomatoes – could help in the coming weeks as well. The move from an end of the year slot to this late summer berth is increasingly looking like a smart move by Paramount, which will be looking to get the next one gearing up as soon as it can. The Aardman ‘toon appeared to underperform in 11th with $4 million, though given its status as a pickup by Lionsgate, it’s actually not a bad opening given the current competition.
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The box office overall saw a huge drop, close to 30%, from the same time last year when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drew an impressive $65.6 million debut andGuardians of the Galaxy pulled in $42.1 million in its second weekend.
