KRAVEN THE HUNTER Is Tracking to Open with a Franchise Low at the Box Office, Lower Than MADAME WEB
Sony Pictures should be bracing for another Marvel movie blow at the box office as Kraven the Hunter is tracking to open with a franchise-low with $13 million to $15 million. Not even Aaron Tylor-Johnson’s abs will be able to save this movie.
Those number are even lower than Madame Web, which went on to become a box office bomb after a $13.5 million start in February. 2022’s Morbius ended up flopping with an opening of $17.3 million on its first day.
Kraven The Hunter had a $110 million production budget and it will be released in 3,200 theaters, which is below the theater count for Venom: The Last Dance, which opened in 4,131 theaters, Madame Web with 4,013 theaters, and Morbius with 4,268 theaters.
The movie opens against The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which I’m way more excited about.
After Kraven the Hunter, Sony Pictures is pulling the plug on all of their Spider-Man universe spinoff films. They will now just be focusing on their projects that directly involve Spider-Man.
Kraven the Hunter is the visceral, action-packed origin story of how and why one of Marvel's most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
J.C. Chandor is directing the movie from a script by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man), and it also stars Ariana DeBose as Calypso, Russell Crowe as Nikolai Kravinoff, Fred Hechinger as Chameleon, Alessandro Nivola as an unknown villain, Levi Miller, and Catch-22 star Christopher Abbott as the main villain, The Foreigner.
Kraven the Hunter movie in theaters nationwide on December 13th, 2024.