Sony bombed 3 out of 4 times. announced The death of the Spider-Man: Villain Universe franchise.
Disney owns the rights to almost every other Marvel character, so Sony has the rights to include a narrow universe character called Spider-Man. Sony, looking at the money Marvel Studios was raking in and trying to suck the bones out of its small universe, decided to turn to Spider-Man villains for their films.
First edition, 2018 Venom The movie, starring Tom Hardy, was a huge hit, selling for more than $1.856 million all over the world. And the sequel, 2021, has arrived Venom: Let's cause carnageit worked fine with $507 million all over the world. Then everything fell apart…
following year, morbius just got bombed in $168 million all over the world. madame web (2024) was a fiasco that cost just $1101 million all over the world. third Venom chapter, Venom: The Last Dance (2024) did just fine with $473 million worldwide. but kraven the hunterwhich will be released in theaters this weekend for only $$13 million to $15 million Domestic is the last straw.
Sony deserves credit for keeping the budgets for these movies within a reasonable range of $100 million to $120 million, which is pretty low for a comic book movie. The problem is that even with such a reasonable budget, when you add in promotional costs, the studio probably lost about $300 million on these three bombs and barely broke even. Venom 3.
Sony now intends to move away from the villain and stick to the main character, Spider-Man, through films starring Tom Holland, animated films, and something called “Spider-Man.” spiderman noir Starring Nicolas Cage.
Granted, I only bothered to watch one of these villain movies; morbiusit was smelly. Still, I don't criticize the concept or the acting. The problem was the boring story and script. Why does it always have to be an origin story? Why can't we just jump right into the middle of the action and use a few lines of dialogue to explain how Kraven, Madame Web, and Morbius became Kraven, Madame Web, and Morbius? is always stuck in a formulaic story of how so-and-so became so-and-so.
Sadly, there is no evidence that the manga genre is running out of gas. deadpool and wolverine That was proven this year. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3it was proven last year. The problem is terrible comic movie. Hollywood and its sycophants will never admit it, but good commercial films tend to find an audience.
Personally, I'd be happy if superhero fatigue was real. 15 years of the same crap is enough.
So Spider-Man's Villain Universe has joined the DC Extended Universe on the scrap heap. Now it's just the DC Universe run by James Gunn. Marvel is also doing a bit of a reboot by bringing back Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans as different characters. Marvel woke up and killed the golden goose, so they went back to being straight white guys.
What I saw last night Katie Elder's sons (1965) and Garbo speaks (1984). The cape is fine as is.
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