‘Fantastic Four’ bombs with $26.2M, ‘Mission’ again tops

Well, today, 20th Century Fox can tally the box-office results with chalk, as it draws a massive outline around one of the biggest superhero-debut bellyflops in years. Well, as you might have guessed, more details have surfaced, and if there’s a finger pointing direction for blame, it appears to be going in all directions. Or did studio interference make this a bomb before it was even filmed? 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.

“You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though”. Clearly the magazine has people on both sides giving them information.

“Normally I feel like outside forces don’t affect box office”, he says, “but in this case the negative publicity was so overwhelming that it in no question negatively impacted the movie”.

“They had agreed upon this vision for a film”.

This looks to be like such a spectacular critical and commercial crash, in fact, played out in public as if in slow motion over more than a year, that diehard industry watchers will surely be inspecting the wreckage for long months, as they mull: Just what was the cause? I was also told, the ending of the film was not even Josh Trank’s. “To the point that the editing of the film was done without him”, Campea said.

Miles Teller as Reed Richard gains elasticity as Mr. Fantastic; brother and sister Johnny and Sue Storm, played by Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara, become the Human Torch and Invisible Woman, respectively; and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm becomes an orange-ish rock creature called The Thing. 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. Then came the tweet from Trank himself saying the finished product was not his “Fantastic” final cut.

“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.

With only 9% of its reviews rating “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes (a better-but-still-dismal 25% from audiences), a C- CinemaScore with moviegoers and an opening weekend that couldn’t crack $30 million or take the #1 spot at the box office, things seem bleak for Marvel’s First Family.

However, there still could be some surprises.

Marvel action flick “Ant-Man” was in fifth place with an estimated weekend gross of $7.8 million for a cumulative $147.4 million after four weeks in theaters.