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In an interview with Los Angeles Times Looking back on his seven years at the helm of Sony Pictures, outgoing CEO Tony Vinciquerra spoke about the studio’s successes during his tenure, as well as its disappointments. That includes the final movie that will be released while he’s still the boss: Kraven the hunter.
The Spider-Man villain spin-off starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson was “probably the worst launch we’ve had in seven and a half years (I’ve been at Sony), so it didn’t do very well, which I still don’t understand.” , because the movie is not bad,” he said.
In a follow-up question, Vinciquerra was asked more about The requirements—as well as another notable Spidey-adjacent 2024 release: lady web.
“Let’s play lady web for a moment,” he said. “lady web It underperformed in theaters because the press simply crucified it. “It wasn’t a bad movie and it did very well on Netflix.”
He continued, leaning toward blaming the press for lady webFailure and others. “For some reason, the press decided they didn’t want us to make these movies with the requirements and lady weband the critics just destroyed them. They also did it with Poisonbut the public loved it Poison and done Poison a great success. These are not terrible movies. For some reason, they were just destroyed by critics in the press.”
(morbiumreleased in 2022, did not receive any mention).
About rotten tomatoes, Kraven the hunter has a 15% “Tomatometer” rating from critics; Moviegoers gave it a 73% on the Popcornmeter scale. lady webRatings are worse (11% of critics; 55% of fans); while the most recent Poison movie, Venom: The Last Dancehad the highest agreement between critics and audiences (41% vs 81%).
Still, the fact that fans voting on Rotten Tomatoes may have positive feelings doesn’t necessarily translate into box office gold. More recently, Kraven the hunterAs Vinciquerra himself admitted, he did not leave much of a mark at the box office.
The outgoing CEO may not have to worry much more about this, but he is definitely aware that the whole”spider man The spin-off strategy, which Sony adopted so enthusiastically at the beginning, needs to be re-examined in the future. “I think we need to rethink it, simply because he is bitten by a snake,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “If we bring out another one, it will be destroyed, no matter how good or bad it is.”
spider man 4At least, it’s on the horizon: Tom Holland returns as the web-slinger in a film directed by Dustin Daniel Cretton arriving on July 24, 2026.
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