Spider-Man: Brand New Day is about to enter extraordinarily rare territory at the domestic box office, and its blistering pace has now put one of the biggest movies in Hollywood history directly in its sights. The Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios blockbuster is...
Marvel’s Thunderbolts has officially passed the $300 million mark after its third weekend at the global box office… and somehow, this is being spun as a win? That’s the take coming out of access media platforms like Screen Rant, where the entertainment outlet declared the milestone a “key mark” and “positive sign” for Marvel Studios.
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Marvel Studios is in panic mode over the Fantastic Four: First Steps ending.
According to a post on X by user Will-Iam Smith, audiences didn’t respond well to the film’s ending during early test screenings. The post reads:
“Hearing the test screenings didn’t go over well because audiences didn’t vibe with the ending, so now they’re reshooting some scenes. I’m still hopeful it’ll be good, but it’s a little worrying — Marvel really needs this one to be a home run. #FantasticFour”
After a lackluster debut, Thunderbolts is showing some staying power in its second weekend drop at the box office — at least by recent Marvel standards.
Marvel Studios’ latest team-up flick pulled in $33.1 million domestically this weekend, bringing its 10-day North American total to $128.5 million and a global tally of $272.2 million. That’s not blockbuster-tier success for the once-dominant Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the drop from its opening weekend offers a glimmer of hope for a studio in desperate need of it.
In a recent BuzzFeed UK interview, actor Alan Cumming—who famously portrayed Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United—spoke candidly (and maybe a little too freely) about returning to the superhero genre in Avengers: Doomsday. But one offhand comment in particular set off a frenzy online.
Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps is entering dangerous territory with late stage reshoots just months before it hits the big screen. With two and a half months until its scheduled July 25, 2025 release date, the highly publicized Marvel reboot is currently undergoing filming once again in Los Angeles—and for many, this echos a familiar disaster for Marvel studios and Disney.
Disney CEO Bob Iger has declared Thunderbolts the “first and best example” of Marvel’s renewed focus on quality over quantity—even as the film delivered the lowest summer opening weekend in MCU history. In a way he’s right. The film’s quality has been praised by critics and viewers alike, but it hasn’t made a large quantity of money.
The official weekend box office numbers are in, and Thunderbolts has come in lower than initially projected, opening with $74.3 million domestically—below the $76 million projected early Monday morning. Despite being billed as the kickoff to the 2025 summer movie season, the Marvel Studios release is now underperforming even by the franchise’s post-Endgame standards.
In one of the strangest pivots in Marvel Studios history, the company has begun actively rebranding its latest film Thunderbolts as The New Avengers—after the film has already opened in theaters. While no official title change has appeared in theater listings yet, Marvel has launched a coordinated promotional campaign referring to the film by its new moniker, signaling a dramatic shift in branding strategy.