Strong buzz from Marvel fans for “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” isn’t helping the film leg out well at the box office, as the Disney/Marvel Studios release has taken a sharp 66% second weekend drop from its $117.6 million opening to $40 million.

Overseas, the film is proving to be just as frontloaded, grossing just $39.6 million internationally for a two-weekend global total of $TK million. At this pace, “Fantastic Four” could join last year’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” as only the second film to open to more than $100 million and fail to cross $300 million domestic and $500 million worldwide.

It’s a hard blow to Disney and Marvel’s attempts to regrow widespread interest in the MCU beyond hardcore fans after years of inconsistently received films and streaming shows began to take their

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