re: Official Fantastic Four Review/RT 9%(SPOILERS!!!)-(by Fox)

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I dont think this movie needs to turn a large profit for the sequel to get greenlit, I think it just needs to avoid flopping.

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Sure, just trying to figure out what the base amount of $$$ it needs to make before they pack it in and sell the rights back to Marvel.

Breaking even will probably require $250m or so worldwide. That should be doable so long as the word of mouth isn't complete shite. Getting to a decent profit level will probably be $320ish or so.

The question remains how much do they need to turn to make it worth the effort to make more? The next film will almost assuredly cost more to produce so I'm not too sure a movie that just barely makes it into the black will be enough to justify another film to the bean counters.

Unless they are just that pissed that Disney took Star Wars away from them and are determined to hang onto something they want back I feel like it's going to need to be a hit.

Its not like I've ever seen a groundswell of fans begging for a F4/XMen crossover film. Fox has done absolutely nothing to set up a shared universe in its X films so its not like there will be several years of people anticipating an eventual team up. Hell, as far as I can tell, FF isn't even set in the same time period that the X films are currently in so that creates yet another X franchise continuity issue. Perhaps they just don't understand that The Avengers is more than just mashing together different comic properties.