The site believes that Fantastic Four 2025’s box office performance is still continuing “at an expected pace” and that “tracking and pre-sales fit within the usual Marvel mode.” However, the new numbers are “accounting for direct competition against Superman’s first week of release,” a film which is still displaying “early positive holds.”

James Gunn’s “Superman” showed staying power in its second weekend at North American box offices, collecting $57.3 million in ticket sales and remaining the No. 1 movie in cinemas, according to studio...

Strong audience scores and good reviews should help propel the $225 million-budgeted “Superman” toward profitability in the coming weeks.

Ironically, Columbus’ film never happened, torpedoed by post-Batman superhero flops such as The Phantom and The Shadow. It would be another decade before Fox cashed in on the noughties success of The X-Men and Spider-Man by making a Fantastic Four film, with the then-unknown Chris Evans – Marvel’s future Captain America – as Johnny Storm.