Madame

Sydney Sweeney is opening up about the many reasons she signs up for a project. The actor, who starred as Julia Carpenter in Madame Web, talked to British GQ about the decision and said that it was more of a ‘strategic business decision’ for securing more future projects. (Also read: Sydney Sweeney got fake blood in her eye while filming Immaculate but said ‘keep shooting’: She was in a lot of pain) This image released by Sony Pictures shows Sydney Sweeney in a scene from Madame Web. (Columbia Pictures/Sony via…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSydney Sweeney has admitted that featuring in Sony’s critically panned superhero blockbuster, Madame Web, was more of a “strategic business decision”.The recently released movie, which was branded an “embarrassing mess” in early reviews, stars Dakota Johnson as clairvoyant superhero Cassandra Web, alongside Sweeney, who portrays Julia Carpenter, the character who eventually becomes…

If there was a superhero with the power to make good comic book movies, one can imagine Sony would be all over trying to buy up the rights. Outside its splendid animated Spider-Man films and a team-up with Marvel on the recent trilogy of films starring Tom Holland’s masked webslinger, the studio has struggled. This is largely because it has inexplicably tried to manufacture interest in an assortment of superheroes and antiheroes who are part of Spidey’s world in the comics, but who the wider viewing public doesn’t know…

"I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world," the actress says of her Marvel debut There’s no harm in trying something out and realizing that it isn’t a perfect fit. People do it all the time — making big moves, committing to an incompatible partner, wearing regrettable fashion trends. Dakota Johnson‘s one-and-done is Marvel’s Madame Web. “I probably will never do anything like it again,” the actress told Bustle in a new interview. “I don’t make sense…

Count Dakota Johnson out of any future superhero movie discourse. After Madame Web became Sony’s latest Spider-verse flop, the movie got ripped apart by the internet despite a rising cult of fans calling the messy film camp. Most recently on Saturday Night Live, Johnson’s co-star Sydney Sweeney joked you probably “didn’t see” her in the film—and as for Johnson herself, her sardonic press tour interviews said a lot in between her finely minced words. The Epitome of 14 inch Gaming | Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 ReviewA new…

Madame Web may be an even bigger critical and financial disaster than Morbius, but let’s give it something: At least it’s not boring. While it was hard to remember anything that happened in, say, Aquaman 2 — and other mediocre superhero movies of that ilk — five minutes after seeing it, the sheer mind-numbing oddness of Sony’s deranged attempt to ignite a franchise lingers in the memory, whether you want it to or not. We’ve seen endless comic book films, and yet no others feature Dakota Johnson yelling at Ebeneezer…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDakota Johnson has admitted she will likely never be involved in anything like Madame Web ever again after Sony’s blockbuster movie – based on Marvel’s Spider-Man universe – was “ripped to pieces” by fans and critics. Following its cinematic release on Valentine’s Day (14 February), the film was quickly branded an “embarrassing mess” by critics.The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey…

Dakota Johnson has opened up about the commercial and critical failure of the superhero movie Madame Web, saying that she will probably “never do something like it again”.The actor played the lead in Sony’s latest attempt to open up the Spider-Man universe which was met with negative reviews and disappointing box office. The film has a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has made just $91m worldwide on an estimated production budget of $80m.In an interview with Bustle, the actor was asked if she was bothered when people…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSydney Sweeney made a dig at her role in critical flop Madame Web during her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.The actor, 26, plays Julia Carpenter, aka Spider-Woman, in the panned superhero film, which was released last month to widespread derision from reviewers and audiences alike.As she introduced herself to SNL yesterday evening (2 March), Sweeney namechecked some of her…

Sony’s Spider-Man property, Madame Web, may not have lived up to the hype, but it has given us a gift nonetheless. Reactions from critics and fans alike have been universally united in one fact: Madame Web is not a good movie. Never has there been an audience — particularly a comic book one — so aligned in their opinions about the odd film. Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb, a first responder who develops precognitive abilities after a near-death experience. This portrayal is vastly different from the comics. Madame…