How long will Hollywood continue to be obsessed with squeezing intellectual properties? We don’t know, but it is clear that the results of the ‘Spider-Verse’ of sony They have dealt a serious blow to this trend.
Although the charisma of Tom Hardy has helped Venom have its own trilogy, the results of the other films about enemies and secondary characters that surround our favorite Wall-Crawler have been rather pitiful. Something that is now confirmed with the first box office statistics of Kraven the Hunter.
Bad reviews and sad figures
According to Box Office Mojothe movie with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the role of Sergei Kravinoff has been taken 11 million dollars in its American premiere. The accumulated international box office, for its part, is around 26 million, something disastrous for a film whose filming budget would be between 110 and 130 million.
In this way, the results of Kraven would be below those of Morbius (39 million on its first weekend in the US) and even those of the much-reviled Madame Web, who managed to harvest 15 million during the same period while critics and word of mouth on the networks fed on it with a viciousness worthy of the Doctor Octopus. Not even the presence in the distribution of Russell Crowe It has served to raise his profile.
Thus, the film’s figures correspond to some critics who consider it even worse than its predecessors. “A terrible script, a terrible story, producers with terrible taste and an insufficient budget for visual effects,” he said. The Playlist. AND Collider pointed to its “bland storytelling, poor performances and staggering technical problems” as dangers to the good reputation of ‘Spidey’ and its gallery of characters.
Although he has never been among Spider-Man’s most popular enemies for the general public, Sergei Kravinoff has starred in great stories in comics. For example, Kraven’s Last Hunt (1987) has a well-earned reputation as one of the best story arcs in our friend and neighbor’s career.
Thus, it is a shame that Kraven’s arrival in the cinema was a film unworthy of his reputation, as well as a very dishonorable closure for a ‘Spider-verse’ whose end is already a fait accompli. Will the studios learn from this blockbuster catastrophe?
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