Last week, I covered some photos from the premiere of Kraven the Hunter. I was surprised as everyone else that the film was being premiered this month, because this film was supposed to come out nearly two years ago. The release date kept getting pushed back with various excuses, but it was clear that the studio really didn’t believe in it (and yet they spent more than $100 million on the production). Well, long story short, Kraven’s opening weekend did not go well. It’s an even bigger bomb than Madame Web.
Sony’s first R-rated comic book movie Kraven the Hunter bombed in its domestic box office debut this weekend, hunting down only $11 million to come in third behind Thanksgiving blockbusters Moana 2 and Wicked.
Kraven supplanted Madame Web to rank as the worst start ever for a Sony-produced Marvel comic book movie (the studio has rights to the Spider-Man universe), and one of the worst for any pic based on a Marvel character, not adjusted for inflation.
Reviewers ravaged the film, while audiences slapped it with a C CinemaScore. The pic also missed its target overseas, grossing a mere $15 million from 60 markets for a global debut of $26 million.
Kraven, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular antihero, wasn’t cheap, costing $110 million to make instead of an intended $90 million because of pandemic and strike-related delays. Its release date was also pushed several times. Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger and Alessandro Nivola co-star in J.C. Chandor’s action-thriller about the vigilante son of a Russian gangster who has incredible strength.
Kraven is more bad news for Sony following Madame Web as it tries to mine the hundreds of Spider-Man-related characters it has the rights to. Sony insiders have marketed the film as an R-rated action pic akin to such titles as John Wick, versus a comic book movie.
The comparison to Madame Web is so interesting – both Madame Web and Kraven were part of the interconnected Spider-Man universe, both films made by Sony, both films had screwy marketing campaigns, and both films bombed massively at the box office. And yet, Madame Web was seen as the end of woman-led comic-book adaptations. After Kraven bombed, I doubt we’ll see thinkpieces on why white guys shouldn’t be allowed to be the lead in comic book movies. When it’s Kraven the Hunter, it’s all “oh bad luck, we’ll get ‘em next time!” Madame Web was treated like it fundamentally changed how women are viewed by studios. Incidentally, I looked it up – Madame Web ended up breaking $100 million at the global box office. I doubt Kraven will do the same.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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- Aaron Taylor-Johnson presents in Madrid the movie 'Kraven the hunter', on December 3, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.,Image: 942462402, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Credit line: Oscar Gonzalez/Wenn/Avalon
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- Aaron Taylor-Johnson presents in Madrid the movie 'Kraven the hunter', on December 3, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.,Image: 942462404, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Credit line: Oscar Gonzalez/Wenn/Avalon
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- Aaron Taylor-Johnson presents in Madrid the movie 'Kraven the hunter', on December 3, 2024, in Madrid, Spain.,Image: 942462446, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Credit line: Oscar Gonzalez/Wenn/Avalon
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- NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 10: Fred Hechinger, Ariana DeBose, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alessandro Nivola at the World Premiere of Kraven The Hunter at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City on December 10, 2024. Copyright: xMediaPunchx,Image: 945367750, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/MediaPunch/Avalon/Avalon
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- New York Premiere Of ‘Kraven The Hunter’ At AMC Lincoln Square Featuring: Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Where: New York, New York, United States When: 10 Dec 2024 Credit: Marion Curtis/Starpix for Columbia Pictures/INSTARimages
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- New York Premiere Of ‘Kraven The Hunter’ At AMC Lincoln Square Featuring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson with Family Where: New York, New York, United States When: 10 Dec 2024 Credit: Marion Curtis/Starpix for Columbia Pictures/INSTARimages
Her daughters are very beautiful and his blue steel is laughable. That’s all I got.
He’s always doing that stupid face for some reason.
I don’t think Aaron Johnson has the rizz to be leading man material. Hope this means he’ll be out of the mix for the next Bond.
I’ve enjoyed some of his comedic roles. But I agree that he doesn’t scream leading man and someone did him dirty releasing those pics. The styling is awful and the photographer needed to get more out of him.
The last time I found him to have any rizz was in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (even if he hates that movie and always acts as if it’s beneath him or something).
He is utterly terrifying in Nocturnal Animals.
Yikes. His wife definitely groomed him.
a quick Google tells me that he was 18 and she was 42 — groomed is a heavy word for a grown adult dating an older grown adult. I’ll go with power imbalance, immaturity etc. but let’s not label her a predator. Yes, I would have the same energy for…well, anyone dating Leo.
18 is when they went public… she knew him way before that. So yeah, It was grooming.
Also, what happens between 17 and 18 to suddenly make u a grown adult? Ur still under the age to drink. Brains still not fully formed..
Hmm, maybe do more research. He was 17 and she was in charge. As far as I know, Leo isn’t dating women that he has cast in his movies and whose career he can hold over their heads. And then hides them away and works with them in private.
And she was his boss. they met when he was working for her on a film.
That’s not true. He was 18 when they met at the audition (late 2008) he had a day off from Kick-Ass to do the audition for her debut Nowhere Boy. They went public after Nowhere Boy wrapped (May 2009) he was almost 19.
Funny how it’s always EIGHTEEN when these age disparity relationships go public. It’s doesnt’ take a detective to figure out they were groomed way before 18. Regardless of how long they have stayed togther after.
Here we go again.
If your age ends in “teen” a middle-age human being shouldn’t be pursuing that person romantically…let alone locking them into marriage before they’ve had the opportunity to experience life or be legally old enough…to drink.
Sony needs to step away from comic book movies and give the rights back to Marvel.
There’s talk they may be dealing the rights back to marvel for at least the spider verse characters.
A F’n MEN @Izzy and someone like me who never knows the difference. I think they are all Marvel. They really do a disservice to the Marvel brand. I mean even Dakota Johnson thought Madam Webb was a Marvel movie until she found out it was Sony. That does not take away. I think she is an awful actress no matter what movie she is in.
Just sell it to Marvel and let them fix it. Hopefully, Marvel has had some big bombs themselves lately.
She knew him since he was about 14 because she was a director in a movie he was acting in. They had a child when he was 18 and she was in her 40s which means that she started dating him when he was 17 or 16. She groomed him and trapped him with kids. Mind you her eldest daughter is 7 years younger than him. Stop making excuses for grooming. It’s gross.
How about doing some fact checking before spewing complete garbage? She met him when he auditioned for her movie Nowhere Boy in October 2008, he was 18 and had one day off from Kick-Ass to do the audition. Filming for Nowhere Boy started March 2009 and they went public with their relationship in May 2009- after the movie wrapped. He was about to turn 19 in June. And he had his first child at 20, not 18.
I know nothing about the comics that go behind this but I’ve enjoyed a lot of the superhero movies, particularly the marvel ones (during covid I made the most of us having Disney to watch the films in timeline order). I love the great ones and even enjoyed the moderate offerings. So I’m not overly fussy but between him as the lead and what we heard about the premise of this movie I’m out.
It may not end white guys as superhero leads but it ended sonys whole spider verse. They’re not making anymore. They may even deal the rights back to marvel. So it’s left a bigger flop mark than madame web even.
Isn’t Sony just making these so they can retain the Spiderman rights? Like, I think keeping control of the property is more important to them than the success of the films? Or am I confused on that?
I love the Marvel universe, I love comics, but I have zero desire to see this movie.
I think they all just need to stop making fetch happen. He hasn’t got It.
Although I doubt they’ll stop shoving him down our throats as the lead man.
I just look at the posts about him to see the inevitable freak outs that “HE WAS 18 WHEN THEY STARTED DATING HE WAS AN ADULT NOTHING TO SEE HERE” lol sure Brigitte Macron, go back to first ladying with your own toy boy and leave hers alone
“When it’s Kraven the Hunter, it’s all “oh bad luck, we’ll get ‘em next time!”” – Nah, this effectively ends Sony’s non-Spider Man Spiderverse. Like when Cruise’s Mummy sank the planned Dark Universe. Kraven’s cratered performance on the heels of MW will be the final nail.
The film industry is weird right now. I had no idea about this film and rarely keep up with what’s out now. Maybe the producers didn’t promote it enough since we all think that’s what they need to do more of.
I really thought the header pic was a photo of Oliver Hudson at first, Kate Hudson’s brother and was like oh I didn’t know he was in a Marvel movie? I hadn’t even heard of this until a friend posted about it on social media. I’ve been out of the loop with everything Marvel since about Loki season 1 since I really don’t care about the Multiverse storyline thing they’ve got going right now.