Call it market saturation or audience fatigue when it comes to new superhero movie releases; whatever the cause, Marvel’s iron grip on the box office has been slipping for a while now. For more than a decade, the studio could count on at least one of its upcoming Marvel releases to land among the year’s top earners, no matter what else was in theaters. Such is not the case this year, thanks to another Disney release.
According to Box Office Mojo’s 2025 tally, The Fantastic Four: First Steps has been pushed to No. 11 on the worldwide box office chart, edged out of the top ten by Zootopia 2.
