Dakota Johnson‘s “Madame Web” had its strands snipped during its opening week … tanking at the box office — and recent interviews might deserve some blame.
The running total for the six-day holiday weekend — beginning Valentine’s Day and ending tomorrow on President’s Day — is just $25.8 million domestically and about the same amount globally … an abysmal opening for a major superhero flick.
In fact, The Hollywood Reporter claims it’s the worst opening for a Sony movie featuring Spider-Man-related characters … and continues the trend of underperforming superhero movies from both Marvel and DC.
It’s not just a case of people not showing up to the theater either … ’cause most people who see “Madame Web” are trashing the film online.
‘MW’ now holds a 13% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and only has a 55% audience score on the review aggregator .. neither living up to the usual superhero hype.
There are a whole lotta reasons why this movie’s bombing … bad reviews certainly chief among them — though it seems Dakota didn’t do the film any favors with her recent promotional tour.
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As we previously reported … Dakota said she hasn’t seen the movie during an interview in the UK — while also essentially saying she’s got no plans to watch it any time soon.
When asked about Tom Holland‘s ‘Spider-Man’ movies, Dakota made a joke about their titles, including one she framed like a ‘Harry Potter’ title — though it seems obvious she hadn’t seen or researched them at all.
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Basically, she gave some people the impression she really didn’t care about the movie much — a cardinal sin among committed comic book fanatics.
Granted, Madame Web isn’t a big Marvel character, so the built-in audience for this movie doesn’t seem to have been there … but DJ’s somewhat cringey interviews probably didn’t help the movie either.
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Bottom line … Dakota and “Madame Web” were put under a magnifying glass — and it seems their spider is all burned up.