With one more week until the Christmas box office really picks up business, Disney’s “Moana 2” is still atop the box office charts while a pair of new releases — Sony/Columbia’s “Kraven the Hunter” and Warner Bros.’ “Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim” — are failing to launch.
“Kraven the Hunter” is opening to an estimated $11-12 million from 3,689 theaters this weekend, below the $15.3 million opening of “Madame Web,” another flop Marvel adaptation released by Sony earlier this year. Comic book movie fans have not been impressed, giving it a C on CinemaScore.
While Sony found success with the “Venom” trilogy, including this past fall’s “The Last Dance,” which legged out to $473 million worldwide, that has not extended to other attempts to create spinoffs based on “Spider-Man” characters like Morbius and Kraven.