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Weekend Numbers: Fantastic Four gets clobbered

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The signs weren’t good at the tail end of last week when we were able to start publishing reviews of The Fantastic Four, and now the poor reception of the film has been reflected in the weekend numbers. Josh Trank‘s FF reboot took a measly $26.2 million in its domestic territory over the three days, which didn’t even secure it the number one spot. That went to Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation which retained its spot for the second week in a row.

Trank’s film is a bomb. It made around $34 million overseas in the same time frame giving it a $60 million worldwide opening, which is still a ways off its rumoured $100 million plus production budget. Compare Trank’s film to the opening of the 2005 remake and you’ll see that Tim Story‘s version opened to $56 million in North America, more than double the 2015 reboot. So, the question is; where will Fox take this now? We have heard rumours over the weekend that they may shunt the sequel in favour of a fast-tracked Deadpool sequel, the first movie for which opens on Valentine’s weekend next year. If true, a Deadpool sequel could be in cinemas for the following year.

Back to the box-office for this weekend, and The Gift, which had a $5 million production budget, made $12 million over the three days securing the number three spot, while Ant-Man came in at #4 with $7.8 million.  Ricki and the Flash and Shaun the Sheep made $7 million and $4 million respectively, both under their estimates.

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