Madame Web ended up being a laughably bad film that got hit with a lot of negative reviews and it bombed big-time at the box office. During a recent interview with CB, Lorenzo di Bonaventura talked about the film’s reception saying it feels like “an ax in the head.”
When asked about the possibility of seeing these characters again, the producer said: “I don’t have any idea. I, I really don’t know. Yeah, that, that was uh, that was a heartbreaking experience in the theater. So I’ll tell you that.”
When asked how it feels when a project doesn’t perform or connect with fans like you wanted it to, Bonaventura shared it is “like an axe in your head.”
He added: “I think one of the things, and, and this is a longer conversation which I’d be happy to have. I think one of the problems with streaming is that we don’t know how to judge failure or success, right?
“Opening weekend when it doesn’t work, you just got slammed side of your head. And so the brutalness of failure really makes you concentrate on the next movie. And I don’t want that experience again.
“So there’s a, it’s a harsher experience. So I think that has a lot to do with what kind of movies now that I look at, like, all right, how am I gonna approach this?”
The creative team behind Madame Web obviously had no clue what they were doing in regard to the story and characters. It’s sad because they do have a blueprint to follow in the source material, but they just through all that out the window and made something silly up.
One of the film’s co-stars, Emma Roberts, previously shared her thoughts on why the film bombed and blamed it on Internet culture.
She said: “Things work; things don’t work. Everyone likes to act like they can predict if they’re going to work or they’re not. And the truth is, you can’t.
“Things do badly, and then they blow up later on TikTok. Things do well, but then you watch them, and you’re like, ‘This did well?’ There is no secret. It’s about doing something goodish and it hitting at the right time.
“Everything else is like a wish and a prayer. I’m not intimidated by failure, and I’m not intimidated by people having negative thoughts about something.”
The fact of the matter is that they just went out and made a bad movie. It’s Hollywood, it happens! It’s not the first bad movie and it won’t be the last.
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