Box Office: ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Makes $2 Million in Previews
variety.comJordan Moreau Forget the web-slinging, it’s time for some big-game hunting. “Kraven the Hunter,” the latest (and possibly final) entry in Sony’s universe of Spider-Man villains, has made $2 million in Thursday previews at the box office.
The R-rated Sony super-villain film is projected to make a disappointing $13 million to $15 million in its opening weekend. A debut in that range would make it the lowest opening weekend ever for one of Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs — it would even come in below the universally criticized “Madame Web,” which opened with $15.3 million earlier this year.
The COVID-19 pandemic and Hollywood strikes delayed the “Kraven” and ballooned its budget to $110 million from $90 million. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars in the movie, directed by J.C.
Chandor, as Sergei Kravinoff, better known to Spider-Man fans as the fearsome, big-game hunter Kraven. The movie plots his origins and complicated relationship with his father and ruthless crime lord Nikolai (Russell Crowe) that sets him on the path to become a buff, leather jacket-wearing villain.
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