Disney is celebrating the upcoming release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps on Disney+ with a new 10-hour video. Here’s The Thing…literally, here is The Thing, waiting calmly and quietly on your desktop for almost five times the length of the movie it is being released to celebrate. Check it out below.
This is not the first time Disney has done something like this. Previous 10-hour ambient videos have included the Witches Road Beach House from Agatha All Along, meditation with Daredevil in the rain, and even Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine breathing. Now, if you have nothing better to do, you can add an extended visit to the Baxter Building’s kitchen and wait with The Thing…for something.
‘The Fantastic Four’ Is Finally Coming Home to Disney+
The Fantastic Four: First Steps became Marvel Studios’ biggest movie of 2025 over the summer, but still managed to disappoint with a box office of $521 million worldwide. Although many movies would have loved to have made more than half a million dollars, the production costs of Marvel movies put things in a different perspective.
The arrival of the Fantastic Four into the MCU was a costly affair, with the budget being at least $200 million. From its box office run, taking into account the assumed 50% cut from ticket sales, Disney made around $260 million, so about $60 million in profit. This is not the whole story, though, as marketing costs are to be deducted, VOD and home media sales are to be added, then there are millions being earned from merchandising. In short, no matter what people online say about a $521 million box office being a failure, The Fantastic Four: First Steps was anything but when all is said and done.
Now the movie will add another profit boost from its Disney+ debut. The film will no doubt soar straight to the top of the streaming chart and remain there for one, maybe two weeks at least. Ad-supported tiers of the platform will therefore be making a tidy sum from the millions of views the film will generate over a short time, and, of course, it will continue to accrue more all the while it is on the platform.
2026 will see the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday, both of which should leave no one with any complaints about a lacking box office result.
- Release Date
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July 25, 2025
- Runtime
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115 minutes
- Director
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Matt Shakman