Box Office: ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Preys on Meager $4.7 Million Opening Day, ‘Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim’ Debuting in Fifth

After several delays down the Sony release calendar, the studio’s Marvel spinoff “Kraven the Hunter” is being met by indifference in its arrival to theaters. The antihero actioner earned a feeble $4.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,211 locations.
That’s behind the $6 million opening day gross of the studio’s “Madame Web,” which opened on Valentine’s Day Wednesday back at the start of 2024 and finished with a paltry $43 million in North America. It seems Sony is bookending the calendar with another comic book dud, as the R-rated “Kraven the Hunter” will have to muscle up if it’s going to make its already low projections for an opening north of $13 million. Even if it meets those expectations, it’s a wretched start for the $110 million production.
“Kraven the Hunter,” which is directed by J.C. Chandor and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the killer villain of Spider-Man lore, has...
That’s behind the $6 million opening day gross of the studio’s “Madame Web,” which opened on Valentine’s Day Wednesday back at the start of 2024 and finished with a paltry $43 million in North America. It seems Sony is bookending the calendar with another comic book dud, as the R-rated “Kraven the Hunter” will have to muscle up if it’s going to make its already low projections for an opening north of $13 million. Even if it meets those expectations, it’s a wretched start for the $110 million production.
“Kraven the Hunter,” which is directed by J.C. Chandor and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the killer villain of Spider-Man lore, has...
- 12/14/2024
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
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