{"id":114005,"date":"2025-11-04T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:44:07","slug":"youll-never-guess-what-sonys-biggest-streaming-film-of-2024-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/114005\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll Never Guess What Sony\u2019s Biggest Streaming Film of 2024 Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because a film is a box office hit<\/a> doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019ll be a hit on streaming. In fact, sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes a film will bomb at the box office<\/a> but create such curiosity that, when it hits streaming, people are willing to give it a shot anyway. Then, weeks or months later, that bomb is now suddenly a hit<\/a>, just by a different metric.<\/p>\n

A recent example of that is the 2024 film Madame Web<\/a>. According to Bloomberg<\/a>,\u00a0the Dakota Johnson Spider-Man spin-off (pun intended) was Sony Pictures\u2019 most-streamed movie on Netflix last year, beating all of the studio\u2019s biggest box office hits such as Venom: The Last Dance and It Ends With Us. Each of those films grossed around $145 million domestically, while Madame Web grossed closer to $44 million<\/a>. It also sports a more than warranted 10% rating<\/a> on Rotten Tomatoes, which certainly didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

Almost instantly after release, though, the film seemed to gain cult classic status, getting recognition on podcasts like How Did This Get Made and more. That it was so bad<\/a> gave it name recognition, and when it started showing up on Netflix, people watched. The same carries over to Sony\u2019s fifth best streaming title last year, Kraven the Hunter, another ill-conceived Spidey spinoff that made even less money than Madame Web.<\/p>\n

These stats come as part of a larger article about Sony trying to figure out a way to get more money from its streaming bombs. As it stands now, its current deal with Netflix is based on how much a film makes at the box office. But if the movies that make less are doing better on streaming, clearly, there\u2019s money being left on the table. It\u2019s a whole thing, which you can read about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What we care most about, though, is the simple, basic lunacy that Madame Web can be considered, in a very cut-and-dry metric, a hit. Who could have seen that coming? Nobody\u2014except, of course, Madame Web herself.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just because a film is a box office hit doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019ll be a hit on streaming. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,73608,73609,397,400,9028],"class_list":{"0":"post-114005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-kraven-the-hunter","12":"tag-madame-web","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-streaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}