Morbius

After an historic record-breaking box office run, but for all the wrong reasons, The Marvels is facing the comparison that every Marvel movie fears: it’s getting likened to Morbius. In fact, with a 79% drop-off in earnings from its opening weekend to its second in theaters, The Marvels actually suffered a bigger weekend 2 loss than even Morbius did, which plummeted by the slightly less 74% over the same period. To be entirely fair to Nia DaCosta’s sequel — which, in this writer’s opinion is actually a ton of fun and…

Screenshot: Sony PicturesSony’s plans to expand its live-action Spider-Man universe has already given us some bizarre oddities like Morbius, and it looks like we’re not stopping any time soon. Our first look at the Madame Web movie is here, and it’s not just bringing one of comics’ most peculiar Spidey supports to the big screen, but a whole host of Spider-heroines.What is a Necrobotic Spider?Starring Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb—here a young paramedic whose brush with death leads to her developing the power of…

It’s often impossible to watch something completely divorced from the context surrounding it. Despite what some may have you believe, once you know about the controversy attached to a film or show, you can’t un-know it, and that’s going to affect how you view the finished product in question.Doctor Strange 2's Sam Raimi on America ChavezRight now, Warner Bros. is learning this the hard way with The Flash. After about two months of pre-release positive buzz, the film ultimately crashed and burned at the box office and is…

via Sony Only in the world of comic book movies could faring dismally at the box office be interpreted as a victory, but The Flash needs every shred of positivity it can lay its hands on after failing to fall below one of the worst Marvel adaptations there’s ever been. Speaking of the ongoing rivalry between the two superhero sandboxes, the latest rumors claim that Ben Affleck is planning to switch sides yet again, something that those opposed to James Gunn’s tenure as co-CEO have been luxuriating in. It’s been…

via Sony You things have gotten bad for The Flash when it should be treated as a victory that it failed to steal an unwanted all-time box office record away from Morbius, but the DCU’s disastrous blockbuster is taking any victory it can get at this stage. Of course, there is the requisite bad news to report after a $15.3 million saw the multiversal movie drop by 73 percent in its second weekend to set the steepest-ever decline for its franchise, way out in front of the 69 percent that was previously shared by…

Image via Sony The first trailer for Sony’s Kraven The Hunter has dropped, along with an accompanying poster. And already the internet is assuming it will play a lot like Morbius, the Jared Leto-starring turd from last year that likewise focused on a Spider-Man villain but didn’t have much to offer fans since it left out the Web-Slinger himself. Although internet denizens admit that star Aaron Taylor-Johnson certainly looks like Kraven, the teaser isn’t convincing fans they should rush out to see this movie…

Aaron Taylor Johnson as Kraven.Image: Sony PicturesSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is still swinging in theaters and nowSony has begun to spotlight its next Spider-project. It’s Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latest in Sony’s stable of Spidey villain projects like Venom and Morbius before it. Spoilers of the Week Feb 21-25Unlike Venom and Morbius though, Kraven the Hunter will be rated R, the first Marvel film to do so at Sony, which you can fully see in the film’s first trailer, which was just…

Image via Sony Pictures Animation Miguel O’Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, is at the core of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. He debuted in the post-credits scene of Into the Spider-Verse, and has tasked himself with ensuring that “canon events” in each Spider-Person’s life occur as scheduled, usually the traumatic loss that spurs them on to greater heroism. Unfortunately, this also means he’s adamant that all Uncle Bens and Captain Stacys must be allowed to die as planned, something that Miles Morales refuses to…

“Kraven the Hunter is a Marvel movie grounded heavily in the real world,” said star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. “And anyone who is familiar with the comics and the character of Kraven, they know that he’s a fierce hunter with the skill of a highly trained killer. So, I figure now’s a good time to answer the Internet’s biggest question about the film.”Spoilers of the Week Feb 21-25“Will it be rated R?” the actor asked himself. “Fuck yes it’s going to be rated R.”At CinemaCon 2023 in Las Vegas, Sony announced that Kraven the…

via Sony Sony‘s CinemaCon presentation on Monday didn’t deliver the Spider-Man 4 news we were all hoping for, but it did garner some excitement thanks to the revelation that Kraven the Hunter will be rated R. This makes it the first of the studio’s Spidey spinoffs to sport that certificate, which initially led to a surge of hope that maybe the Aaron Taylor-Johnson vehicle could be the one to break this franchise’s curse. On the other hand, however, some think Kraven‘s R-rating isn’t lifeline but an anchor…