Marvels The Fantastic Four: First Steps held off a potential threat from new comer The Naked Gun~2025 to stay at the top of the UK and Northern Ireland box office for a second weekend.
Despite a 62% drop from last weekend the superhero movie took an exceptable second weekend gross of just over £3 Million giving the movie a total gross of £15.3 Million.
The movie has now taken more that Thor and should overtake Eternals and maybe this years Thunderbolts by next weekend.
The reinvented The Naked Gun~2025 starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson makes its debut at number 2 this weekend with a nice £1.8 Million.
This is very much in the ballpark of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad which took £457,000 on its debut and adjusted for inflation would be nearly £2 Million.
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A new Marvel movie and a new number 1 as The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits the top of the global box office as the movie takes $218 Million from 53 countries.
The movie knocks fellow comic book movie Superman~2025 off the top of the global box office after 2 weeks and the movie has just passed the half billion mark.
Also new at number 2 this weekend is Dead to Rights which takes $56 Million from a single country release.
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Marvel studios brings its latest movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps to the big screen and as expected the anticipated introduction of Marvels first family tops the UK box office on its debut.
The movie takes an excellent £8.1 Million on its debut which is better than Iron Man 2 but not as good as Thor: The Dark World
The movie is the third of the big July 2025 movies and although it did better than Superman~2025 from a couple of weeks ago its not come close to Jurassic World: Rebirth from the start of July.
Superman~2025 drops to number 2 after a couple of weeks at the top and has taken £21.5 Million to date.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had a hard tome of late after 20 years of hit after hit, but Thunderbolts from earlier this year hit the mark just about right and now we get The Fantastic Four: First Steps hitting the top of the North American box office.
The new movie brings in a new 'phase' of the ling running series of movies and is the long awaited arrival of The Fantastic Four to the Disney franchise.
The movie hits the top of the box office with a weekend gross of $118 Million, better than Spider-Man: Homecoming but not as good at Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but the movie has already taken more that The Marvels.
After 2 weeks at the top Superman~2025 falls to number 2 and has taken a very nice $289.5 Million total gross to date.
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The new adaptation of the Superman~2025 movie remains at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a gross of £4.8 Million, a very reasonable 30% drop from last weekend.
The James Gunn directed movie has now taken a nice £16.3 Million in its first 10 days of release in the UK.
Coming in at number 4 this weekend is a new animated version of the Smurfs which takes £1.2 Million on its debut.
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