A Manhattan with a retrofuturist sensibility is among the intriguing visual aspects of the film. We talk with its designers to get the details.

A new themed popcorn bucket made by Marvel Studios to celebrate the release of “Fantastic Four: First Steps” has broken size and price records for the novelty items, which have made millions for theaters and helped pull them from the depths of COVID-era losses.

While cinema-goers have responded enthusiastically to many films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the history of the Fantastic Four is less heralded.

This isn’t a superhero film obsessed with saving the world in the loudest way possible. Instead, it’s a story about saving oneself, about identity, family, and quiet courage. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby,

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy ’60s-era romp, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

When The Fantastic Four: First Steps premieres this week, it will mark the return to prominence of four heroes not just foundational to Marvel and its ever-expanding empire of comics, movies, and television shows, but to modern pop culture and storytelling.

This post contains details about The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Director Matt Shakman is explaining why The Fantastic Four: First Steps didn’t give continuity to the post-credits scene in Thunderbolts from earlier this year.

The subtitle of Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie, First Steps, really refers to Franklin Richards. We don’t literally see him taking his first steps in the film, but clearly this character – the son of Reed and Sue Richards — is a massively powerful being,