Sony Pictures’ Madame Web film completely bombed in its opening weekend at the box office performing even worse than the film’s downgraded projections.
Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) in Columbia Pictures MADAME WEB.
According to The-Numbers, the film only grossed $15.3 million in its opening weekend. That was good for second at the domestic box office behind Bob Marley: One Love which grossed $28.6 million in its opening weekend.
Mainstream media outlets such as Deadline are claiming the film grossed $26 million, but the caveat is that it’s a 6-day weekend that includes as far back as Valentine’s Day and President’s Day on Monday.
Cassandra Webb/Madame Web (Dakota Johnson) in Columbia Pictures MADAME WEB.
The $15.3 million opening weekend is far below projections from Box Office Pro’s 3-day projection back on January 18th. The outlet predicted Madame Web would gross between $25 million and $35 million in its 3-day opening weekend.
On February 8th, Box Office Pro lowered those projections to $15 million on the low end and $24 million on the high end.
In their official opening weekend projections they claimed the film would only gross $14 million in its 3-day weekend, $16.3 million in its 4-day and $22.6 million in its 6-day.
Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim) in Columbia Pictures MADAME WEB.
Madame Web has grossed $26.2 million domestically to date. It added another $25.7 million internationally for a global gross of $51.9 million.
The film is unlikely to break even given the movie’s estimated production budget is $80 million and the film needs to gross at minimum $200 million in order to break even in order to cover the grosses that go to movie theaters as well as the film’s marketing budget.
Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced), Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson), Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney) and Mattie Franklin (Celeste OConnor) in Columbia Pictures MADAME WEB.
For comparison, The Marvels did not even gross $200 million in its entire run at the box office and Madame Web is currently performing much worse than The Marvels. The Marvels had grossed a total of $48.4 million domestically in comparison to Madame Web’s $26.2 million.
In fact, the film is performing worse than Sony’s Morbius, which hit theaters last year. Morbius had grossed $41.1 million domestically after its first Monday compared to Madame Web’s $26.2 million. Morbius grossed a total of $73.8 million domestically and added another $88.8 million internationally for a global haul of $162.7 million.
So unless Madame Web has a massive surge in ticket sales, there’s no way it’s achieving $200 million at the box office.
Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims in Madame Web (2024), Sony Pictures
Box office analyst OMB Reviews shared, “If this film continues to be half of what Morbius or even just slightly above half, right, 60% of what Morbius was able to do, you’re still looking at a film that has a good chance of not reaching $100 million worldwide, which for any comic book movie is kind of just unknown.”
He added, “It’s one of these things where never have we had. Even the case there’s been so many bad Sony Spiderverse films, there’s been so many bad Marvel films, and yet none of them it seems have ever been able to do what Madame Web is doing.
What do you make of Madame Web’s disastrous box office returns?
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