Box Office: ‘Morbius’ Stirs With $5.7 Million in Thursday Previews
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Morbius,” Sony’s latest attempt to extend its cinematic universe of Spider-Man villains and heroes, opened to $5.7 million in Thursday previews.
The $75 million superhero film is on track to pull in $40 million in its first weekend of release. It’s a sign of just how much moviegoers love comic book fare.
However, bad reviews may take a bite out of “Morbius’s” box office haul. A lot is riding on “Morbius’s” success. Sony scored a blockbuster smash with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and its $1.9 billion global gross, and it has also managed to spinoff Venom, another Spidey adversary, into a standalone franchise.
But the characters that Sony licenses from Marvel extend beyond Peter Parker and the symbiote. After “Morbius,” Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters is chugging along with standalone stories on “Kraven the Hunter,” starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and “Madame Web,” featuring Dakota Johnson. “Morbius” features Jared Leto as Michael Morbius, a doctor with a rare blood disorder whose desperate gamble to find a cure transforms him into a living vampire.
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