Neglect the web-slinging, it’s time for some big-game searching.

“Kraven the Hunter,” the most recent (and presumably closing) entry in Sony’s universe of Spider-Man villains, has made $2 million in Thursday previews on the field workplace.

The R-rated Sony super-villain movie is projected to make a disappointing $13 million to $15 million in its opening weekend. A debut in that vary would make it the bottom opening weekend ever for considered one of Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs — it might even are available in beneath the universally criticized “Madame Net,” which opened with $15.3 million earlier this 12 months. The COVID-19 pandemic and Hollywood strikes delayed the “Kraven” and ballooned its finances to $110 million from $90 million.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars within the film, directed by J.C. Chandor, as Sergei Kravinoff, higher identified to Spider-Man followers because the fearsome, big-game hunter Kraven. The film plots his origins and sophisticated relationship along with his father and ruthless crime lord Nikolai (Russell Crowe) that units him on the trail to change into a buff, leather-based jacket-wearing villain. The solid consists of Oscar winner Ariana DeBose as Kraven’s love curiosity Calypso; “Gladiator II” villain Fred Hechinger as Chameleon, Kraven’s half-brother and a grasp of disguise; Alessandro Nivola because the thick-skinned crime boss the Rhino; and Christopher Abbott as mercenary the Foreigner.

Common’s musical “Depraved” will battle “Kraven” for second place, because it appears for $18 million to $20 million in its fourth week of launch. Additionally opening this weekend is Warner Bros.’ animated “Lord of the Rings” prequel, “The Struggle of the Rohirrim,” which is aiming for a $6 million to $7 million launch. Nevertheless, Disney’s “Moana 2” should not have any drawback preserving the field workplace crown for the third straight week, because it eyes $25 million to $28 million this weekend.