10 Recent Movie Flops EVERYONE Saw Coming

10. Madame Web

The easiest predictor of a franchise's future performance is, ostensibly, its past performance, and so it shocked nobody when the latest entry into Sony's Spider-Man Universe flamed out commercially just like its direct predecessor, Morbius.

Even though Madame Web was budgeted relatively sensibly for a superhero blockbuster, costing roughly $100 million - that's less than half your average Marvel Cinematic Universe movie price tag - it still failed to turn even a modest profit, grossing just $100.5 million globally.

With tentpole films typically needing to gross roughly 2.5x their budget to break even, that leaves S. J. Clarkson's critically panned superhero flick firmly in the red to the tune of around $150 million.

Given that even Morbius managed to gross $167.5 million back in 2022 - on an even more svelte $83 million budget, no less - it's an undeniably embarrassing result for Sony's ongoing attempts to build a Spider-Man-adjacent cinematic universe. 

Outside of Venom, which has performed reliably at the box office in its two entries to date, the interest just doesn't seem to be there, and accepting the quality of the output to date, the blame can't be laid with audiences at all.