Disney’s Marvel reboot The Fantastic Four: First Steps maintained its dominance at the North American box office despite a steep second-week drop. Animated sequel The Bad Guys 2 and the Naked Gun reboot followed in a competitive early August weekend.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Disney’s debut of the rebooted Marvel Comics franchise, continued to outperform the competition for a second straight weekend at the North American box office, industry estimates showed Sunday.
Actor-of-the-moment Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Emmy-winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn star as the titular team of superheroes, who must save a retro-futuristic world from the evil Galactus.
The film pulled in an estimated $40 million in the Friday-through-Sunday period, a 66 percent drop from the prior weekend, for a two-week global total of $368 million.
Universal’s family-friendly animation sequel The Bad Guys 2, about a squad of goofy animal criminals actually doing good in their rebranded lives, debuted in second spot, earning $22.2 million.
"This is a good opening for an animation follow-up sequel," said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
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 $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 $13.9 million, Exhibitor Relations said. That puts the global take of the film, starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel.
With AFP
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