Fantastic Four (film)

Fantastic Four is a 2015 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. The film is the twenty-third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the ninth film in Volume Three. Fantastic Four was directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck and written by the writing teams of Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers and Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski. The film stars 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, Lupita Nyong'o as Alicia Masters, Michael Fassbender as Victor von Doome/Doctor Doom, and Stellan Skarsgård as Franklin Storm.

The film was released on November 13, 2015.

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
 * Lupita Nyong'o as Alicia Masters
 * Michael Fassbender as Victor von Doome/Doctor Doom
 * Stellan Skarsgård as Franklin Storm

Box office
Fantastic Four grossed $284.3 million domestically and $448.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $732.8 million. The film had a domestic opening weekend of $79.2 million, debuting at number one for the weekend. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $154.7 million when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 57% based on 238 reviews, with an average rating of 5.93/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Fantastic Four provides plenty of superhero action for fans of the franchise, even if it does so at the expense of its predecessors' deeper moments." At Metacritic, the film has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.