Overview
- The film grossed $218 million worldwide in its first weekend, including $118 million domestically, marking one of the MCU’s strongest openings this year.
- It set a new presale record with $24.4 million in U.S. preview screenings, surpassing Superman’s previous benchmark.
- Critics have praised its retro-futuristic design and emotional core, reflected in an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Director Matt Shakman repositioned Franklin Richards’s birth to the film’s midpoint to heighten emotional stakes and foreground the character’s emerging cosmic powers.
- Two post-credits scenes introduce Doctor Doom as an imminent antagonist and offer an animated 1960s-style tribute to the Fantastic Four cartoons.