Sony Pictures‘ last Marvel film Kraven The Hunter has raked in an all-time low of US$11million for its opening weekend.
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Per reports from Variety and Forbes, Kraven The Hunter has earned a meagre $11million in the United States, and is expected to bring in equally bad earnings from overseas markets for its first three days of screening.
This would make Kraven The Hunter the lowest-selling film in Sony’s ill-performing Marvel slate, which in 2022 included Morbius and this year’s other box office dud Madame Web. However, as much of a box office flop as Madame Web was, Kraven appears to be struggling even more.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as ‘Kraven The Hunter’. CREDIT: Sony/Marvel
Against Kraven The Hunter‘s $11million, Morbius‘ opening weekend brought in $33million, while Madame Web brought in $26.2million – the latter was deemed the lowest opening for a Marvel-based character at the time, now overtaken by Kraven.
Going up against Kraven The Hunter in cinemas currently are two box office juggernauts: Wicked and Moana 2.
Kraven The Hunter – which was filmed with a budget of $110million and is estimated to not break even in December – stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the title character, a big-game hunter who is set on a path of vengeance as the result of a complex relationship with his father, playing by Russell Crowe.
Kraven The Hunter is the sixth instalment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, following on from the three Venom films, Morbius and Madame Web. Like many of its predecessors in the franchise, it did not fair well with critics ahead of its cinematic release last Friday (December 13).
In a scathing one-star review, The Independent wrote: “Farewell, Sony’s Spider-Manless Spider-Man universe. You died like you lived: strange and sloppy… the script is profoundly scattered, and there’s such a ruthless amount of re-recorded dialogue inserted that there’s little cohesion between or even within scenes. Requiescat in pace, Sony’s Marvel universe – you really made people’s brains hurt.”
Little White Lies’ review agreed: “It’s all desperately silly,” they wrote. “Perhaps that would be less of an issue if the film’s writers, stars and director leaned into it a little – as in the Venom films – but there’s an air of seriousness about Kraven the Hunter that makes it a slog that can’t be saved by a surprising number of violent executions, including one involving a bear trap.”
After Kraven The Hunter, lead actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson will return to the big screen for Robert Egger’s Nosferatu in the UK in January 2025 and on Christmas Day in the United States.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson on April 22, 2024 in London. CREDIT: Getty/Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images
Taylor-Johnson has also this year been heavily rumoured to be the next James Bond. It was reported in March that EON Production had offered Taylor-Johnson the job after he impressed producers in a screen test. The actor was asked about the rumours in April, but swerved the question, as he had done multiple times previously. Neither he nor the producers have confirmed or denied the speculation.
Former Bond actor Pierce Brosnan also weighed in on the potential casting, showing his support for Taylor-Johnson.
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