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Posted August 3, 2025 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Fantastic Four Repeats

The Fantastic Four: First Steps managed to hold onto first place of the box-office weekend for another week as it bested the second place film by $17.8 million.

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” posterFor the second consecutive weekend, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten as it brought in $40.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. This brings the film’s two-week total to $198.4 million. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures saw the sequel The Bad Guys 2 debut in second place with $22.2 million taken in over the weekend. Third place saw the debut of the reboot of The Naked Gun from Paramount Pictures International which made $17.0 million over its first weekend in release. In its fourth weekend of release, Superman fell from second to fourth place where it added $13.9 million for Warner Bros. to raise its overall total to $316.3 million. Also falling two places this week was Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Rebirth which landed in fifth place with $8.7 million, giving it a five-week total of $317.6 million.

The third debut of the weekend, Neon’s Together landed in sixth place where it brought in $6.8 million for the studio over the last three days, to give the film a one-week total of $10.9 million. Dropping three places from last weekend, F1: The Movie claimed seventh place with $4.1 million. This brings the Warner Bros. product’s six-week total to $173.3 million. After landing in sixth place last weekend, Sony Pictures Releasing’s I Know What You Did Last Summer fell two spots to land in eighth place this weekend, where it made $2.7 million for the studio, lifting its three-week total to $29.3 million. Dropping four spots from last weekend, Smurfs made $1.8 million over the last three days for Paramount Pictures International, bringing the film’s cumulative total to $28.5 million. After claiming seventh place last weekend, How to Train Your Dragon dropped three spots to land in tenth place this week with $1.4 million. This brings the Universal Pictures International product’s eight-week total to $250.4 million.

For the third week in a row, the films that finished in eighth through tenth place last weekend, all failed to make this weekend’s top ten. After three weeks in release, A24’s Eddington drops from the top ten after bringing in a total of $9.5 million for the studio. The Sony Pictures Classics release Oh, Hi! managed to earn $1.8 million during its first two weeks in release before falling from the top ten. Finally, Lionsgate’s The Home departs the top ten with a two-week total of $1.5 million.

Weekend Box Office (August 1st – August 3rd)

  1. The Fantastic Four: First Steps…$40.0 Million
  2. The Bad Guys 2…$22.2 Million
  3. The Naked Gun…$17.0 Million
  4. Superman…$13.9 Million
  5. Jurassic World: Rebirth…$8.7 Million
  6. Together…$6.8 Million
  7. F1: The Movie…$4.1 Million
  8. I Know What You Did Last Summer…$2.7 Million
  9. Smurfs…$1.8 Million
  10. How to Train Your Dragon…$1.4 Million
Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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