After a string of box office failures and critical flops, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is dead. So how did the SSU fail, and what’s next for Spider-Man?

While Venom was relatively successful for Sony Pictures, movies like Morbius and Madame Web have caused the company to kill off its plans for the universe.

That means J C Chandor’s R-rated action adventure, whose $110m budget swelled from an initial $90m due to strike and pandemic-related delays, has delivered the worst opening weekend ever by any Sony-Marvel release, outdoing even Madame Web, which has endured infamy since it opened in February on $15.3m and went on to finish on $43.8m.

Towards the end of Sony Picture's newest Marvel movie "Kraven the Hunter," the titular anti-hero - played with maximum abdominal musculature by Aaron Taylor-Johnson - experiences a chilling hallucination in which he's surrounded by a horde of spiders.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the titular hero in Kraven The Hunter, the sixth attempt in Sony's sputtering efforts to stock enemies for Spider-Man in movies that don't feature the webslinger. It's stuck in time,