celeb news Sony CEO Blames Press for Kraven & Madame Web Bombs, Says They're Not Terrible Films

[Radical Pessimism]

 

Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra recently told the Los Angeles Times that "Kraven the Hunter" is "probably the worst launch we had" in the nearly eight years he's been at the studio, adding: "I still don't understand, because the film is not a bad film."

 

- "Kraven" opened in theaters Dec. 13 to a paltry $11 million, the lowest debut yet for a Sony-released Marvel movie.

- "Madame Web" flopped with $100 million worldwide.

- "Venom: The Last Dance" became the franchise's lowest-grossing entry.

 

"Let's just touch on 'Madame Web' for a moment," Vinciquerra said. "'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."

 

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[HASHTAGPOW]

It's giving Little Monsters' Wheel of Excuses 

[I Am Music]

Guess it's easier to blame the media than their own shortcomings and just make these movies to keep the license instead of focusing on a good product. 
 

 

[CozySkin]

Delulu 

[Daddy]

He needs to lose his job when he thinksnthose were good

[Musicmajor]

I will never understand why people/organizations pretend something is not true...when it is lol. This doesn't serve them any good to pretend like these were not horrible films (they were). Continue being delulu, I am SURE that will be a great benefit for your company & your future projects!

[Fav]

Well I blame them for creating this mid movie... I don't need critics to recognize a FLOP when I see one...

 

[Jglj]

Did he watch Madame Web? The movie was so bad that people speculated it was an AI script.

[BlazingLovatic]

If he is seriously that delusional, he has no business working for a movie studio

 

Madame Web could've been written better if it was made by chat gpt lol

[glitch]

America is sleeping, gift for the fans, buzz single, surprise release, no promo, no playlisting, it would be #1 if not for the 50 songs above it, the views have been frozen, it was too ahead of its time, arts not the charts, sold out on itunes

[mathekr]

it's crazy to me that someone can green light these many consecutive bombs, be this delusional about why they bombed and still keep their job  

Edited 15 hours ago by mathekr

[NEUTRON]

Venom was okay but the other two were abysmal

[Gui Blackout]

"It's not a bad film, it did great on Netflix" really isn't the defense you think it is…

[Truth Teller]

I blame Sam Taylor 

 

[Gojira]

Madame Web felt like a pilot for a WB series similar to Birds of Prey.

[shoganai]

Industry is running out of ideas and good writers 

[tiagol88]

2 hours ago, Daddy said:

He needs to lose his job when he thinksnthose were good

I actually think he's stepping down next week lmao

[JustHoran]

Kraven did deserve better, not a bad movie.

[vuelve88]

 Note that he never says any of them are great or amazing films… just that they are not "bad". 

[Radical Pessimism]

23 minutes ago, JustHoran said:

Kraven did deserve better, not a bad movie.

I saw it and I didn't care for it.

 

Spoiler

They spent half of the movie on teen Kraven  

 

[Poxy]

Madame Camp's retrospective acclaim is coming 

[Elementary]

"It did well on Netflix"

 

is he aware of the quality of the content that "does well on Netflix"? 

[Dolce Vita]

i need this man to be serious. he really looked at the final cut of madame web with dakota johnson of all people leading it, and thought "this is a movie that will sell". girl 

[Bhabylon]

They're never going to improve if they refuse to see there's a product in the movies they make

[Ewan Chaos]

Not the Netflix excuse As if the only reason people were watching the movie was to laugh at how bad it was without paying money for it