Fantastic Four (film)

Fantastic Four is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. The film was directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jeremy Slater and Tracey Wigfield. It is the sixteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and was released in the United States on July 17, 2015.

The film stars John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Zac Efron, Jason Sudeikis, Ben Mendelsohn, Tika Sumpter, Ed Harris, and Denzel Washington. It received critical praise for its screenplay, direction, themes, action sequences, visual effects, musical score, and the performances of the ensemble cast. A sequel, Fantastic Four II was released on July 6, 2018.

Cast

 * John Krasinski as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
 * Emily Blunt as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman
 * Zac Efron as Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 * Jason Sudeikis as Ben Grimm/The Thing
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Kl'rt/Super-Skrull
 * Tika Sumpter as Alicia Masters
 * Ed Harris as Franklin Storm
 * Denzel Washington as Phillip Masters

Box office
Fantastic Four grossed $329.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $644.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $974.1 million, against a production budget of $175 million.

In the United States and Canada, it was released alongside Trainwreck, and was projected to gross around $70 million. While Disney was projecting a $65–75 million debut, some independent trackers had the film opening to as low as $60 million or as high as $80 million. The film made $29 million on its first day and ended up overperforming, grossing $84.8 million in its opening weekend. In its second weekend, the film made $39.7 million, retaining first place, and then made $22.9 million in its third weekend, finishing second. It retained the second-place position at the box office during its fourth with $16 million, before dropping to fourth-place in its fifth with $12.3 million. It managed to stay in the top five for the next two weekends, before dropping to sixth-place in its eighth weekend.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 87% based on 359 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Smart, innovative, and thrilling, Fantastic Four is a rare superhero flick that succeeds viscerally as well as intellectually." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.