Monday Morning Box Office Report: Mission: Impossible Maintains, Fantastic Four Fizzles

Posted by on August 10th, 2015   Filed under: Box Office

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It would appear that superhero movies are not always a sure thing at the box office as Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot opened way below the already modest expectations, trailing Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in its second weekend. The Josh Trank film earned just $26.2 million, which is less than half of the $56 million that the previous FF movie made back in 2005. Given its $120 million budget, it seems safe to say this will be the biggest bomb of the summer. There’s no question that the terrible reviews kept audiences away, although to be fair, I’m not sure that anything in the trailers really wowed people to begin with. In third place, the Jason Bateman / Joel Edgerton thriller The Gift debuted to a robust $12 million, marking another low budget genre hit for Blumhouse Productions. Vacation fell to fourth place while Ant-Man rounded out the top 5. Sadly, Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep Movie was the latest stop motion animated film to completely tank, failing to even crack the top 10.

1. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation — $29.40M
2. Fantastic Four — $26.20M
3. The Gift — $12.01M
4. Vacation — $9.15M
5. Ant-Man — $7.83M
6. Minions — $7.40M
7. Ricki and the Flash — $7.00M
8. Trainwreck — $6.30M
9. Pixels — $5.43M
10. Southpaw — $4.76M



  • Anthony

    If Frank or Jay give Fant4stic a higher rating or better review than Captain America Winter Soldier which they both disliked i’m driving to St. Catherines to have a strongly worded conversation with them.

  • Stinker

    They should watch and talk about Shaun, simply to see a good Movie. They deserve it. They saw a lot lot lot lot lot of trash only for us listeners, so we can avoid those “Movies”. So I hope they enjoy Shaun.

    Shaun already made more than 60 Mio Outside the US. So the US Market is a sad story for Shaun, but then again, wait for the BLU Ray………WHICH IS MORE THAN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any Human being with a BLU Ray Collection bigger than 10 Discs should own it. Anyone with a child should own at least one, you know, for the kid….and the Super Duper Steelbook for the Display Shelf in the Living Room.

  • milan

    Cannot wait to hear if f4 is really bad or is it only the marvel fanboys complaining…

  • LordAwesome

    CA: WS is not a movie worth getting work up about, man.

  • I saw on Sean’s letterboxd that he saw it and gave it a 4/5 so I guess he liked it.

  • Winter soldier is a pretty meh movie.

  • Anthony

    Critics, who are usually not comic book fans, have been slamming the movie as well.

  • But as we all know, critics just want to watch some movies burn.

  • kent88

    Huh? Almost every stupid comic book movie is well-reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes.

  • devolutionary

    Not if your film has “Fantastic Four” in the title.
    Fantastic Four 2015 (9% critics, 23% general)
    F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (37% critics, 51% general)
    Fantastic Four 2005: (27% critics, 46% general)

  • Mahvels Bad

    both r butt tho

  • Anthony

    Because if you read their reviews, it’s obvious they aren’t hugely familiar with the source material and are critiquing it on the merits of the film itself. Whether you agree with them or not is a different story, but that was in response to the other poster who said the only people giving this film negative reviews are Marvel fanboys.

  • Anthony

    I don’t care how much anyone hated Winter Soldier. To Argue that it’s as bad as Fant4stic is factually wrong.