Kraven the Hunter — Sony Marvel’s box office flop starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe — arrives on Netflix this week.
Kraven the Hunter opened on theaters on Dec. 13, 2024, and debuted on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Jan. 14.
Directed by J.C. Chandor (All is Lost, Triple Frontier), Kraven the Hunter is a spinoff movie in Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Spider-Man movie universe.
The official summary for the film reads, “Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed, R-rated, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.”
Kraven the Hunter also stars Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Christopher Abbott and Alessandro Nivola.
Kraven the Hunter will debut on Netflix on Thursday, March 13. You must have a Netflix subscription to watch the film on the streaming platform. Netflix offers an ad-based package for $7.99 per month for two supported devices and an ad-free package for $17.99 per month for two supported devices.
In addition, the streaming service offers a deluxe ad-free package for $24.99 per month with 4K Ultra HD programming that can be streamed on four supported devices.
‘Kraven The Hunter’ Features The ‘Spider-Man’ Villain The Rhino
One of the villains Kraven faces in the film is Aleksei Sytsevich, aka the Rhino, played by Alessandro Nivola.
In a Zoom conversation prior to the release of Kraven the Hunter in theaters, Nivola pointed out an interesting fact about the character on film — both he and his longtime friend and fellow actor Paul Giamatti are the only two performers to bring the comic book icon to life on the big screen.
Nivola said the two made the connection of playing the Rhino while filming their upcoming roles in Downton Abbey 3.
“We were joking about stuff because first of all, we’ve known each other since I was 18. I was an undergrad at Yale when he was a Yale Drama student and we were in plays together back when I was still a teenager,” Nivola recalled. “So, it was a fun reunion and then we realized that he had played The Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. So we said, ‘We both played the f—-ing Rhino!’”
Per The Numbers, earned $25 million domestically and nearly $35 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $60 million against a $110 million production budget before prints and advertising costs.
Kraven the Hunter didn’t do any better with Rotten Tomatoes critics, who collectively gave the film a 15% “rotten” rating based on 153 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the film reads, “Claiming no trophies with its rote story and shoddy special effects, Kraven the Hunter turns out to be a paper tiger.”
The film fared a bit better with audience voters on RT, giving the film a 73% “fresh” rating on the site’s Popcornmeter based on 1,000-plus verified user ratings.
Kraven the Hunter arrives on Netflix on Thursday.
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