The Fantastic Four: First Steps has made nearly $370 million globally after a big box office drop during its second weekend of release.

After launching in North American theaters to a strong $118 million during its first weekend, First Steps brought in another $40 million domestically this weekend, which marks a significant drop of 66%. Domestically, First Steps is now at $198,427,635, and internationally its hit $170.3 million. That makes for a current global tally of $368.7 million.

According to Variety, analysts had expected a weekend two box office drop of 55% to 60%, due to positive word of mouth and a lack of competing movies coming out. Superman, by way of comparison, suffered a second weekend decline of 53%.

First Steps is an important release for Marvel Studios, as it kicks off Phase Six of the MCU and comes after two box office disappointments in Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Its worth noting that First Steps is on course to beat both films final box office tallies ($415.1 million and $382.3 million, respectively), and it will comfortably secure its place as the highest-grossing Fantastic Four movie ever. The question for Marvel Studios and parent company Disney will be whether First Steps ends up doing enough business during its theatrical run to not only prove profitable, but to reignite the MCU as it heads towards 2026s crucial Avengers: Doomsday.

Rob Liefeld, the co-creator of Marvel Comics' Deadpool who retired last year and has insisted he will no longer work with Marvel due to a series of perceived slights at the premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, took to social media last week to offer his thoughts on why his 5pm Tuesday IMAX screening of The Fantastic Four: First Steps was next to empty. I can tell you why there is very little repeat biz on this film, he said. Its impossibly dull and boring.

That opinion goes against the consensus of critics and moviegoers. IGN's The Fantastic Four: First Steps review returned a 7/10. We said: "The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a family dramedy that only stops working when it tries to be too much of a superhero movie."

With Phase Five of the MCU now in the rear view, let's rank all of it!

14. Secret Invasionp Just dreadful. It's such a shame that we waited so long for Nick Fury to get the spotlight, one even based on a famous comic arc, and it turned out so terribly. Nothing on paper was bad about this, mind you, but now Secret Invasion stands as the only canon series that Marvel fans would happily ignore. What's that you say? Maria Hill's still alive? Great. What else? Rhodey wasn't a Skrull during Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame? Perfect. What else? G'iah doesn't now have the combined powers of The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain Marvel making her the most powerful being on Earth? Fantastic! Yup, if there was a Roger Rabbit-style 13. Captain America: Brave New Worldp It's important to recognize the huge gap in quality between Brave New World and Secret Invasion. Even though this Captain America movie is ranked second-to-last, there's a gulf between these two Phase Five-ers.br br Brave New World is just a regular misfire, with some decent elements. Like you'd hope for most of the time for things that miss the mark. The biggest issue with Brave New World is that Sam's major arc and best character moments happened on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Brave New World was actually a President Ross story (making it even sadder that William Hurt didn't get to play the role). Ross had the emotional journey here whereas Sam was relegated to just being a guy who went from not wanting to reform the Avengers to a guy who agrees to reform the Avengers. It's also clear from the film itself that Red Hulk was meant to be a a third act surprise, and that the audience was suppose to be guessing at Samuel Sterns' plan (with those having read the comics in a better position to predict correctly). Marketing, however, went all in on Red Hulk. So much so you'd assume he came in the middle of the movie and not during the final 10 minutes.br br Reshoots don't mean a movie will be bad. Neither does a script still being written during filming. Good movies come from these conditions all the time. But when a film flops it's easy to look at a messy production like Brave New World (cut storylines, characters, etc) and see why it felt so half-formed. br br That being said, it was pretty awesome to get Tim Blake Nelson back as Sterns as he was the original

Marvel Studios has only three movies with confirmed release dates for 2026 and 2027: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the aforementioned Avengers: Doomsday, and 2027s Avengers: Secret Wars. Liefeld called on Marvel to release Deadpool 4 after a report indicated it was behind the likes of X-Men and Black Panther 3 on Marvels priority list , despite the fact Deadpool & Wolverine made over a billion dollars at the box office. Just give the people what they want!! Liefeld declared .

Amid the fuss over The Fantastic Fours box office, DCU kickstarter Superman now has a global box office take of $551.2 million after weekend four. Domestically, it added another $13.855 million, marking a strong hold of 44%, to hit $316.211 million. The film earned $11.2 million internationally this weekend for a global weekend take of $25.1 million.

If youre looking for a undisputed box office smash hit, though, look no further than Jurassic World Rebirth, which is now up to $766 million globally after weekend five. Domestically, Rebirth is on $317.6 million (just ahead of Superman with an extra week behind it), but its internationally where this one is really flying.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].