Sony Photos CEO Tony Vinciquerra has shared his ideas on “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” bombing on the field workplace.
Vinciquerra, 70, spoke concerning the films throughout an interview with the Los Angeles Occasions printed Thursday, and admitted that the Aaron Taylor-Johnson-starring Marvel flick “Kraven the Hunter” is “probably the worst launch we had” in his almost eight 12 months tenure Sony.
“I still don’t understand, because the film is not a bad film,” he added.
After hitting theaters on Dec. 13, “Kraven” earned a measly $11 million in its first weekend and the ignominious place in Hollywood historical past because the lowest field open for a Sony-released Marvel film up to now.
The movie, which reportedly had a finances of $110 million — now has an $18 million home haul and a world gross of $43 million.
The monetary failure of “Kraven” stung extra after “Madame Web,” starring Dakota Johnson, flopped, taking house solely $100 million, and “Venom: The Last Dance” grew to become the bottom grossing movie within the franchise.
Of “Madame Web,” Vinciquerra blames movie critics for its failure.
“Let’s just touch on ‘Madame Web’ for a moment,” Vinciquerra advised the LA Occasions. “‘Madame Web’ underperformed in the theaters because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film, and it did great on Netflix.”
“For some reason, the press decided that they didn’t want us making these films out of ‘Kraven’ and ‘Madame Web,’ and the critics just destroyed them. They also did it with ‘Venom,’ but the audience loved ‘Venom’ and made ‘Venom’ a massive hit.”
“These are not terrible films,” he continued. “They were just destroyed by the critics in the press, for some reason.”
Vinciquerra cited the lackluster vital reception of Sony’s Marvel films as a purpose why he says the studio must “rethink” the way it proceeds with new “Spider-Man” films it releases.
“It’s snake-bitten. If we put another one out, it’s going to get destroyed, no matter how good or bad it is,” he defined.
Regardless of Vinciquerra defending “Kraven” and “Madame Web” as “not terrible,” the motion flicks have 16% and 11% scores on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.
Along with “Kraven” and “Madame Web,” Sony suffered unhealthy critiques and unhealthy field workplace receipts with one other latest Marvel launch, 2022’s “Morbius,” starring Jared Leto.
Sources at Sony advised Selection earlier this month that “Kraven,” “Madame Web” and “Morbius” — all three Spider-Man villain spinoffs — have been “creative and critical duds” — although additionally they insisted “Morbius” turned a revenue with its $167.4 million gross. The insiders added that the studio must be “more discerning” about making a standalone movie for another Spidey villains — in the event that they even make extra of these films within the first place.
Regardless of its latest failures, Sony is tough at work with Disney’s Marvel Studios on a fourth “Spider-Man” installment starring Tom Holland.
