Sony’s first R-rated comic book movie Kraven the Hunter is crashing and burning in its domestic box office debut after topping Friday’s chart with $4.7 million, behind even sister pic Madame Web.
At this rate, the movie is predicted to discneglect in third place with $10 million to $12 million, the worst shoprosperg for a pic based on Marvel comic book character behind Elektra way back in the day with $12.4 million, not adfaired for inflation.
Friday’s haul integrated $2.2 million in pverifys.
Reseeers are ravaging the film, while audiences slapped it with a C CinemaScore.
Kraven, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular antihero, wasn’t inexpensive, and cost $110 million to produce instead of an intfinished $90 million becaengage of pandemic and strike-roverhappinessed procrastinates. Also, its free date was pushed cut offal times. Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger and Alessandro Nivola also star in J.C. Chandor’s action-thriller about the vigilante son of a Russian gangster who has incredible strength.
Kraven is more horrible news for Sony folloprosperg Madame Web as it tries to mine the hundreds of Spider-Man roverhappinessed characters it has the rights to. Sony insiders have tageted the film as an R-rated action pic akin to such titles as John Wick, versus a comic book movie.
The weekfinish’s other new convey inant studio free, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, is seeing at a fifth or sixth-place with around $5 million. The Warner Bros. and New Line energeticd feature gets place far before the events of Lord of the Rinng. The movie getnd a B CinemaScore.
Elsewhere, Moana 2 and Wicked persist to save the day and top the domestic chart. Gladiator II is also helping, with the weekfinish revenue up 19 percent over the same structure last year despite. The Moana sequel is seeing to grasp another $27 million to its treaconfident chest, trailed by Wicked with an appraised $22.2 million.
