Right now, “Kraven the Hunter” is Sony’s biggest flop in the Spider-Man Universe.
This weekend, the movie debuted in 3,211 theaters, earning a modest $11 million. For comparison, last year’s Sony flop “Madame Web” started with $15.3 million.
Indeed, “Kraven the Hunter” had the worst opening in Sony’s Marvel character universe, and also received some of the lowest ratings in the series — 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and a “C” on CinemaScore.
“The latest film with characters from Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, ‘Kraven the Hunter,’ just had to end everything on an even more miserable note. It’s not like ‘Madame Web,’ where you can at least laugh at how bad it is. Just a total waste of time,” wrote Discussing Film reviewer Andrew J. Salazar.
For Sony, these results are nothing new — “Madame Web” ended its run in the red, earning just $100 million, and the latest “Venom” collected less than its previous two installments, signaling that audience interest in the trilogy has definitely waned.
No wonder Sony is considering cancelling work on spinoffs with ‘supporting’ Spider-Man characters, focusing on the main work — particularly the upcoming film with Tom Holland and the animated movie “Spider-Man: Beyond the Universe” (and, it seems, even considering moving the main character Miles Morales into ‘live’ cinema).
“Kraven the Hunter,” which tells the story of the supervillain Russian Sergei Kravinoff, was initially supposed to cost Sony $90 million, but eventually the budget stretched to $110 million.
Source: Variety
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