The lights had been on, however no person got here. At Brazil’s prestigious Comic Con Experience (CCXP) on Sunday, Sony Pictures’ shock panel for “Kraven the Hunter” — the studio’s newest non-Spider-Man Marvel film — performed to rows of empty seats, in line with a person in attendance. There had been no stars, and never that many followers. Just silence the place superhero hype ought to have been.
The half-empty panel presentation of a $110 million budgeted antihero film at one of many world’s largest popular culture occasions mirrored the Sony Marvel franchise’s diminishing profile exterior the mainline “Spider-Man” films starring Tom Holland. While “Venom: The Last Dance” launched on greater than 4,000 film screens in October, “Kraven the Hunter” will debut this Friday in simply 3,000 — a stark 25% discount that alerts waning confidence in Sony’s failed Marvel experiment.
