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The SPUMC (Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters), then hastily re-christened the SSU (Sony’s Spider-Man Universe) once we had all stopped laughing, has been a disaster. The most successful entries are the Venom movies, and they have been savaged by critics.
The rest of it? From Morbius to Madame Web, and now Kraven, have been monumental flops. Tony Vinciquerra, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment since 2017, admits that Kraven is potentially the worst result of his tenure.
Their collaborations with Marvel on the main Spider-Man movies, and the Spider-Verse projects, have all been great successes. So why have other things connected to them not found an audience?
Vinciquerra is about to exit the role and has given an interview to The Los Angeles Times where he was asked about the SPUMC. He said of Kraven:
“I still don’t understand, because the film is not a bad film”.
He went on to say:
“Let’s just touch on Madame Web for a moment. Madame Web underperformed in the theaters because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film, and it did great on Netflix.
For some reason, the press decided that they didn’t want us making these films out of Kraven and Madame Web, and the critics just destroyed them.
They also did it with Venom, but the audience loved Venom and made Venom a massive hit. These are not terrible films. They were just destroyed by the critics in the press, for some reason.”
The SPUMC is officially dead at Sony, so any further Spider-action will be confined to the MCU for now.
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