• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukM
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    16 days ago

    Which means that they had no obligation to make these movies, but still chose to do so anyway.

    That’s what gets me, there was no need for these films other than Sony rooting around in the drawer to see if they had the rights to enough superheroes to create their own movie franchise. They didn’t just a bunch of third tier Spider-Man adjacent characters and a load of supervillains. However, they thought they that’d be good enough despite the supervillains (and most of the superheroes) needing Spider-Man as he’s the main draw.

    I’d be interested in a breakdown of the box office for these films. I assume they didn’t loose money, partly because Morbius became a bit of a meme, buy I also doubt they made much either.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOPM
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      16 days ago

      I’d be interested in a breakdown of the box office for these films.

      Ask and ye shall receive.

      • Venom (2018)
        • Budget: $100-116 million
        • Box office: $856,085,161
      • Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
        • Budget: $110 million
        • Box office: $506,863,592
      • Morbius (2022)
        • Budget: $75-83 million
        • Box office: $1 morbillion $167,460,961
      • Madame Web (2024)
        • Budget: $80 million
        • Box office: $100,498,764
      • Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
        • Budget: $120 million
        • Box office: $472,812,792

      So, in total, Sony spent $485-509 million on all the films, and they have made a combined $2.1 billion.

      The highest grossing SSU film was the first Venom movie, and they seem to have been chasing that high ever since. Their lowest-grossing movie (so far) is Madame Web.

      So it appears that over time, the SSU movies have been making less and less money with each release (with the exception of Venom 3).

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        16 days ago

        It’s a shame that none of them flopped as hard as they should have compared to the other garbage movies of recent year.

        Even Madame Web could look green if you ignore that likely insane amount of marketing we all saw for it.

        But Sony manages to just keep Morbin all over the place and doesn’t quite see the punishment for it so what do I know.