Kraven may be the world’s greatest hunter, but the comic book villain couldn’t manage the climb to the top of box office charts. Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter,” a superhero spinoff starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Spider-Man’s notorious foe,

There’s a saying among filmmakers about comedy movies and that is you can’t keep them on the shelf for long or else they’ll go stale. The same is equally true about superhero films, and it’s a fate that Sony’s Kraven the Hunter suffered this past weekend,

In the years since Spider-Man began teaming up with the Avengers in the MCU, Sony has held tightly to its grip on the web-slinger’s film rights, creating an endless array of spin-offs focused exclusively on his villains—with no Spider-Man in sight.