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Note: Be aware there are spoilers for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” in the article below.

The movie's performance is a needed win for Kevin Feige's Marvel Studios after a string of misses save for 'Deadpool & Wolverine.'

Let’s give it up for an actor I’m quite fond of, and a new member of the “5-Minute Crusher Club” - Paul Walter Hauser (pictured above in Cruella !) For the longest time, Hauser’s mysterious Fantastic Four role puzzled us all, only for it to be revealed that he was playing Harvey “Mole Man” Elder.

First Steps" and DC's "Superman" hit theaters within two weeks of each other. So which had the bigger opening weekend?

“ Jurassic World Rebirth ” was pushed to fourth but held well, earning $2.1 million in its fourth weekend for a cumulative total of $38.5 million. Warner Bros.’ racing drama “F1” rounded out the top five with $867,818, pushing its cume to $26.3 million after five weeks.

First Steps line up with the end of Thunderbolts* as the franchise builds to the release of the epic Avengers: Doomsday in December 2026? CinemaBlend's own Jeff McCobb recently broached that subject in an interview with director Matt Shakman during the Los Angeles press day for the new 2025 movie,

After a number of false starts, the Fantastic Four have another feature adaptation in the retro-pastiche Fantastic Four: First Steps. This isn’t the first time Mr. Fantastic and co. have appeared onscreen; They were last seen in Josh Trank’s Fantastic 4 (stylized as Fant4stic) and Tim Story’s Fantastic Four films for Fox.

Fantastic Four: First Steps marks the first time the Silver Surfer has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a bit jarring for some that Julia Garner was cast as the surfer and that they were a woman instead of a man. However, there’s a possible explanation for why this is different from the comics and previous Fantastic Four movies.