‘Fantastic Four’ stretches lead to second week at the box office

Disney’s first release in the revamped Marvel Comics series, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” outperformed the competition for a second consecutive weekend at the North American box office, according to industry estimates on Sunday.

The star of the moment As the titular band of superheroes, Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Emmy-winning Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn are tasked with rescuing a retro-futuristic Earth from the malevolent Galactus.

For a two-week total of USD 368 million worldwide, the movie made an estimated USD 40 million from Friday through Sunday, a 66% decrease from the previous weekend.

‘The Bad Guys 2’, Universal’s family-friendly animated follow-up on a group of silly animal criminals who are genuinely doing good in their new lives, opened in second place with USD 22.2 million.

“This is a good opening for an animation follow-up sequel,” Franchise Entertainment Research’s David A. Gross stated.

The film edged out Paramount’s reboot of ‘Naked Gun’, a slapstick comedy starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr, son of the bumbling police lieutenant from the original 1980s movie and related television series ‘Police Squad’! It pulled in USD 17 million in its opening weekend.

‘Superman’, the latest big-budget action film featuring the iconic superhero from Warner Bros and DC Studios, slipped from second to fourth at USD 13.9 million, Exhibitor Relations said.

That puts the global take of the film, starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, at USD 551 million.

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ the latest installment in the blockbuster dinosaur saga finished in fifth place with USD 8.7 million. Its worldwide total stands at USD 765 million after five weeks in theaters.

Independent horror film ‘Together’, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was picked up by Neon, claimed sixth spot in its debut weekend with USD 6.8 million.

“This is a very good opening for an indie horror pic,” Gross said.

Rounding out the top 10 were, ‘F1: The Movie’ (USD 4.1 million), ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (USD 2.7 million), ‘Smurfs’ (USD 1.8 million), ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (USD 1.4 million).