{"id":310994,"date":"2025-12-12T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310994\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:05:11","slug":"fantastic-four-disney-launch-fizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310994\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fantastic Four&#8221; Disney+ Launch Fizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fantastic-four-disney-launch-fizzles.jpg\" data-caption=\"Marvel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fantastic-four-disney-launch-fizzles.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fantastic-four-disney-launch-fizzles\"\/><\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d has reportedly had the quietest Disney+ debut of any MCU title on the service.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvfandomlounge.com\/fantastic-four-logs-worst-mcu-disney-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Fandom Lounge<\/a>, the film pulled in 4.9 million views in its first five days \u2013 10% below the 5.5 million of \u201cThunderbolts\u201d and 23% below that of the 6.4 million for \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World\u201d both earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Some will no doubt say that its success at the box office was to blame \u2013 the film pulled in $522 million worldwide, 25% more than the $415 million of \u201cCaptain America\u201d and 36% more than the $382 million of \u201cThunderbolts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t really pan out though as previous examples have indicated the more successful a film has been at the box-office, generally the greater its Disney+ numbers.  \u201cDeadpool &amp; Wolverine,\u201d which had considerably bigger box-office than all of those titles, pulled in 19.4 million in six days.<\/p>\n<p>Others like \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d debuted with 14.1 million, \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3\u201d with 10.9 million, \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d with 9.7 million, \u201cEternals\u201d managed 9.2 million. even \u201cThe Marvels\u201d managed 5.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>One factor \u2013 Disney+ didn\u2019t do much to promote \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d debut on the platform, with nothing posted to promote the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d has reportedly had the quietest Disney+ debut of any MCU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}