Fox's Fantastic Four took another shot to the Trank with a 68% dropoff from its feeble $26.2M opening for $8M in 4,004 theaters, $1,998 per screen. As far as biggest, 2nd-week drop offs for Marvel-themed films it's worse than Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which dropped 65.5% its second weekend and nearly took the title away from 2005's Elektra and 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, both with 69% and the Marvel, face-plant champ, 2003's Hulk, with 69.7%.
Legendary bomb, especially as all of those 'cept Elektra opened way bigger, and Elektra didn't cost near as much.
At $120 million budget... ouch!
Originally posted by roughrider
The pain and embarrassment is so fresh right now. I can't picture Fox continuing out of spite. What can they do - hide the FF in all their future X-Men movies and say that's using the characters?
Serious answer? Their only other option to try and make some profit from holding the FF rights is to take a shot at a Silver Sufer solo film. But I don't see that happening.
Let Marvel get the rights back, and watch them make a massive movie out of Galactus and SS within 2 years of regaining the rights.
Originally posted by JayDaDon
Well one could make a list of all the sequels that were announced on the heels of failures that we never saw...
Yep. At this point they have to encourage more viewings. If they accept failure and admit there will be no sequels then that will damage the box office and Dvd sales even more.
Expect admittance of failure sometime after it's been released on Dvd.