The Fantastic Four: First Steps is on track to be break even at minimum after its run in theaters, so it looks like it won’t be a flop by definition. However, the film may not rake in enough at the box office to be considered a clear success.

First Steps is Marvel Studios' final 2025 movie, and it has now been revealed which MCU film has the year's best box office.

The new film stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm. At the time of this writing, it has an 86% critics’ score and 91% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

I was a sufferer of “superhero fatigue” until July hit on the 2025 movie schedule. Then something SuperFantastic happened - thanks to the double play of DC’s Superman and Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

From Missteps to a True MCU Debut After decades of misfires, campy takes, and that infamous cloud-shaped Galactus, Marvel’s First Family has finally arrived in the MCU with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.