The Spider-Man spinoff “Kraven the Hunter” got off to a disastrous start in North American theaters this weekend.

Folie à Deux turned out to be a major disappointment both critically and at the box office, and Sony's Spider-Man Universe failed to properly take advantage of a calendar year light on Marvel Cinematic Universe titles.

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Kraven the Hunter. The year is almost over, but there’s still room for one more superhero movie. Kraven the Hunter, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the predatory Spider-Man villain,

This weekend, audiences largely put their attention back on Moana and Wicked rather than Serge iKravinoff or Middle-earth.

With a dismal box office outlook, “Kraven the Hunter” may add to Sony’s list of Spider-Man spinoffs that failed to capture audiences, including “Madame Web” and “Morbius.”

Kraven the Hunter may have a worse opening weekend at the domestic box office than Madame Web. Kraven the Hunter is now playing in United States theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures. Potentially the last film to be set within Sony’s Spider-man Universe,

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.