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Kraven the Hunter’s Failure Confirms One of Hollywood’s Worst Fears
The dismal $11 million haul from Sony’s latest Spider-Man spin-off points to a larger problem for superhero origin stories.
As gloweringly portrayed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the Sony superhero romp of the same name, Kraven the Hunter can scamper up the side of a skyscraper barefoot with squirrel-like agility and panther speed; he can disembowel a squadron of enemy goons using only his bare hands or whatever animal horn/ jungle-cat tooth happens to be nearby at the time. Namely, that outside of Deadpool & Wolverine ’s record-setting $1.3 billion haul this past summer, audiences just don’t seem to turn out for superhero movies anymore. While the Taylor-Johnson vehicle conspicuously contains no mid- or postcredits sequences teeing up future installments of Spider-Verse films and is unlikely to remain in theaters long enough to break even, Sony debunked recent reports that Kraven effectively killed off the Spider-Man Universe.
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