--- description: The superhero adaptation made just over $26 million domestically on a $120 million budget. title: 'Fantastic Four' Meets Doom at the Box Office image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea638312422841dc/69885e0e2dce0114b89e4ef1/michael-b-jordan-johnny-storm-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Fantastic Four_ Meets Doom at the Box Office by [Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2015 6:51 PM CUT  Superhero reboot Fantastic Four boasts an impressive young cast, including Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan. Superhero reboot Fantastic Four boasts an impressive young cast, including Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan.20th Century Fox/Marvel by [Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2015 6:51 PM CUT Fox’s _Fantastic Four_ turned out to be a fantastic flop, [grossing](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fantastic-four-flops-814123?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") only about $26 million in North America in its opening weekend. The superhero saga had a reported budget of $120 million. That the comic book adaptation disappointed in a summer chock full of superhero movies came as little surprise, especially after the truly awful reception _Fantastic Four_ [received from critics](http://time.com/3988799/fantastic-four-reviews/ "undefined") over the past week. At the moment, the movie has just a [9% fresh rating](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fantastic%5Ffour%5F2015/ "undefined") from critics on movie site Rotten Tomatoes, while _Rolling Stone_‘s Peter Travers called out the film for its “soul-crushing, coma-inducing dullness.” The movie, which featured a star-studded cast, was 21st Century Fox’s latest attempt to adapt the _Fantastic Four_ franchise, following a pair of films about a decade ago that also failed to win over critics. But even with the acidic reviews, the latest _Fantastic Four_ was expected to come close to making $50 million in its first weekend at the domestic box office, [according to _The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-fantastic-four-flops-814123?utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined"). Instead, the film barely cleared $60 million globally. With its dismal opening, _Fantastic Four_ joins the ranks of recent summer box office busts, [including 2013’s _The Lone Ranger_](http://business.time.com/2013/07/18/for-movie-industry-an-epic-summer-for-blockbuster-flops/ "undefined"), which led to Walt Disney taking a reported $100 million write-down. Even with _Fantastic Four’s_ poor performance, the summer of 2015 has been a relatively successful one for Hollywood, with [strong showings from Disney and Comcast’s](http://fortune.com/2015/08/08/summer-box-office-universal-disney/ "undefined") Universal leading the way for what could be one of the highest-grossing movie summers in history. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3991329/fantastic-four-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3991329/fantastic-four-box-office/"},"headline":"Fantastic Four Meets Doom at the Box Office","datePublished":"2015-08-10T18:51:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:03:19.808Z","description":"It's nowhere close to breaking even","url":"https://time.com/3991329/fantastic-four-box-office/","keywords":["movies","Marvel","Fox","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea638312422841dc/69885e0e2dce0114b89e4ef1/michael-b-jordan-johnny-storm-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tom Huddleston, Jr. / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea638312422841dc/69885e0e2dce0114b89e4ef1/michael-b-jordan-johnny-storm-fantastic-four.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"michael-b-jordan-johnny-storm-fantastic-four","caption":"michael-b-jordan-johnny-storm-fantastic-four","creditText":"20th Century Fox/Marvel","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3991329/fantastic-four-box-office/","name":"Fantastic Four Meets Doom at the Box Office"}}]}] ```