Verse' take center stage as Sony decides to shelve their supervillain spinoff plans amid multiple box office flops.

Sony is reportedly giving up on its Spider-Man universe, which includes universally panned films such as Venom and Morbius, as Kraven the Hunter is projected for a worse opening weekend than the disastrous Madame Web.

It’s really about the next Spider-Man film.” A Sony insider seems to agree that the studio is done trying to make its well of B-tier Spidey villains into main characters, and will instead focus on Tom Holland’s next Spider-Man,

Man" film and animated "Sider-Verse" sequels, can their now-defunct villain spinoff plans find box office hope in the future?

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is reportedly being put on hold for the time being following the release of Kraven the Hunter. Sony’s Spider-Man Universe — a shared world inhabited by characters who are commonly associated with Spider-Man in Marvel Comics — began in 2018 with Ruben Fleischer’s Venom.

While Venom was relatively successful for Sony Pictures, movies like Morbius and Madame Web have caused the company to kill off its plans for the universe.

With a dismal box office outlook, “Kraven the Hunter” may add to Sony’s list of Spider-Man spinoffs that failed to capture audiences, including “Madame Web” and “Morbius.”

It looks like PlayStation's parent is done with Spider-Man spin-off films, which is probably for the best. We just learned that Sony's Spider-Man Universe is known as the "SSU" for short, comprising those almost universally-panned film and television spin-off projects,

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Kraven the Hunter is a dull, cringeworthy entry into a shared Spider-Man universe concept that seemed doomed to failure from the start.