Kraven the Hunter | $4.7 million | 3,211 theaters | $1,463 per theater Appropriately contextualized, Kraven is one spot away from having the worst opening day of any Marvel-based movie. The existence of Punisher: War Zone is the only thing between Kraven and infamy.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson tries his best in a supervillain offshoot that, like Sony's "Madame Web," may work better for comics fans looking for a campy hate-watch.

Kraven the Hunter just released and it name-dropped a key character from Marvel Comics lore, Miles Warren, who is best known amongst hardcore comic book and Spider-Man fans as the villain, The Jackal.

When Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was on the prowl for the villain of his 2018 entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the filmmaker had his eye on one in particular: Kraven the Hunter. Primarily a Spider-Man villain since his debut in the pages of 1964’s Amazing Spider-Man #15,

The War of the Rohirrim,” “Creature Commandos” and “Dream Productions.”

Sony’s Kraven the Hunter features the live-action debut of the Marvel villain, Chameleon, played by Fred Hechinger. Hardcore Spider-Man and Marvel fans may know the character from the comics and related media.

Kraven the Hunter” really doesn’t work. It is, however, more diverting in the ways it doesn’t work than “Madame Web” and the very, very not-good “Morbius.” Like those two, this one’s a Sony Marvel origin story,

Sony continued to expand its spider-verse this year, introducing various heroes, anti-heroes and now, a man who is typically a villain. That man? Kraven the Hunter. Played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson — one of the rare actors who have had crossover in the MCU (he played Pietro Maximoff) and Sony's spider-verse — Sergei Kravinoff is at the center of the film,