Summary
What is thought to be the finalMarvelentry in the Sony movie dynasty is now officially in theaters. Unfortunately, it appears that there aren’t many people that either know, or care thatKraven the Hunterreleased last week.
It appears that Kraven has done what most of the more recent Sony Spiderverse films have done in thatthey are both critically pannedand dismal failures financially. The early reviews for the movie, which starred Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ariana DeBose, and Russell Crowe, painted a rather grim picture for a movie that at one time was hoped by Sony to be the flick that could jumpstart a franchise, especially since itsVenomtrilogy is officially over.
Kraven the Hunter Fails Spectacularly In Opening Box Office Numbers
According toIGN, Kraven the Hunter’s initial box office was even more disappointing than Sony’s likely worst nightmares. The domestic numbers show a little more than $11 million over more than 3,200 screens. Not only is that much, much worse than an already badVenom 3opening box office, but it is the worst of any of the Sony Marvel movies. Even Madame Web, which opened with a previously all-time low $15 million cleared that bar by a good margin. Even Morbius’ opening weekend blew away what Kraven was able to do as it took in $39 million.
With quite a few of these releases, Sony has relied on overseas box office numbers in order to help prop up the bad early returns. However, this movie doesn’t seem to be all that popular with anyone as it brought in just $15 million from 21,500+ screens in 60 markets. In total, the $26 million haul was quite bad and seems to be the final straw for any chance that Sony had of trying to start its own Marvel dynasty.
The poor box office numbers come with Sony, the cast and even director J.C. Chandor trying to get ahead of poor reviews and lackluster excitement forKraven the Hunter.Chandor begged fansto give the movie a shot, but it appears that appeal fell on deaf ears. Sony also trotted out one of its most tried and true tricks to try and get people to the theater, hinting that there could beties to the MCU’s Spider-Manin the film itself or tease that there will be a crossover in a future movie.
Of course, audiences have seen and heard those teases enough that people were bound to not buy it this time around. The makers ofVenom: The Last Danceleaned hardinto the possibility that Spider-Man might show up at some point. And then the film simply kept talking about Eddie and Venom eventually going to New York City. It likely didn’t help that reports of Sony being done with the Spiderverse started circulating the internet just days beforeKraven the Hunterhit theaters. If there was any hope among fans that Tom Holland might somehow pop up, those reports dashed them on the rocks. Now Sony has to reckon with another awful opening.
