Madame Web (film)
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Directed by | S. J. Clarkson |
Screenplay by |
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Story by |
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Based on | Marvel Comics |
Produced by | Lorenzo di Bonaventura |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
Edited by | Leigh Folsom Boyd |
Music by | Johan Söderqvist |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 116 minutes[4] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Box office | $100.5 million[7] |
Madame Web is a 2024 American
Sony Pictures began developing a Madame Web film for its shared universe by September 2019, with Sazama and Sharpless writing the script. Clarkson joined as the director in May 2020, in her feature film directorial debut, and Johnson was cast in early 2022. Further castings occurred in the following months, particularly for the Spider-Women characters. Filming began in mid-July 2022 and wrapped before the end of the year, occurring throughout Massachusetts, New York City, and Mexico. Clarkson and Parker's involvement as writers was revealed in November 2023. Johan Söderqvist, a frequent collaborator of Clarkson, composed the film's score.
Madame Web premiered at the
Plot
In 1973, in the
Thirty years later, Cassandra, now going by "Cassie", works as a paramedic in New York City alongside her co-workers Ben Parker and O'Neil. During a dangerous call, she falls into the water and has a near-death experience. Ben revives Cassie, but she begins to experience visions. Initially, she dismisses them as déjà vu, but after failing to prevent O'Neil's death, Cassie realizes she can see into the future.
Ezekiel, who has limited
Cassie returns to her apartment and finds her mother's notes, which tell of Ezekiel's identity and the true nature of his powers. Ignoring Cassie's instructions, the girls go to a diner where he finds them. After briefly incapacitating Ezekiel by ramming him with the taxi, Cassie takes the girls back to Queens and they take refuge at Ben's.
Cassie flies to Peru and tracks down Santiago, the tribal chief who had tried to save her mother. He puts her through a ritual that separates her soul from her body. She experiences a plane of higher consciousness where all living things are connected and every possible future can be seen. Cassie learns that her mother sought the spider not for fame or money, as she had originally believed, but to save Cassie from having myasthenia gravis which she suffered from. Santiago tells her that accepting her responsibility can unlock her true power.
Ben's pregnant sister-in-law
The group lures Ezekiel to a condemned firework factory and sets up traps to disorient him while Cassie calls for a medical evacuation helicopter to fly to their location. He destroys the helicopter and separates the girls, then taunts Cassie with Constance's death. Cassie uses her powers to guide the girls to safety, then lures Ezekiel into the final trap, which fatally crushes him. An ignited firework strikes her in the face, severely injuring her. The girls save Cassie, and she is taken to the hospital just as Mary gives birth to her son.
Cast
- Julia Cornwall:
An awkward teenage girl who lives with her father and stepmother following her mother's departure. She is hunted by Ezekiel for being a future Spider-Woman and one of those responsible for his death. Future visions of her show that she possesses similar powers to Spider-Man, as well as psionic webbing.[9] - Anya Corazón:
An intelligent teenage girl forced to live alone after her father's deportation. She is also hunted by Ezekiel for being one of the three future Spider-Women responsible for his death. Future visions of her show that she possesses similar powers to Spider-Man, and has throwing disks that can come back to her.[9] - Iron Spider-like arms as part of her suit.[9]
- Amazon rainforest in Peru alongside a research team with Cassie's mother, whom he betrays.[13] He gained their enhanced strength and health abilities through a powerful spider, as well as clairvoyance which allows him to see visions of his future death, making him obsessively search for his killers.[13] This leads him to hunt three young women who have the potential to become Spider-Women in the future.[13] Clarkson said the character was not afraid to be intense and had a "level of ambiguity" with multiple layers.[11] He also wears a black and red suit, styled similar to Spider-Man, and possesses powers similar to him, as well as the ability to inject a neurotoxin into those he touches.[14]
- Mike Epps as O'Neil: Cassie and Ben's co-worker and friend.[15]
- Mary Parker: Ben Parker's pregnant sister-in-law.[16]
- Adam Scott as Ben Parker: Cassie's paramedic partner and friend.[16]
- Kerry Bishé as Constance Webb: Cassie's mother and a scientist whose work researching spiders brought her to the Amazon in 1973 in hopes of healing Cassie's muscular disorder.[1]
- Zosia Mamet as Amaria: a gifted hacker and Ezekiel's research assistant.[17]
- José María Yazpik as Santiago: the chief of Las Arañas, a secret tribe from the Peruvian jungle with spider-based abilities.[18]
Production
Development

After their work on the Marvel Comics–based film Morbius (2022), part of Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), Sony Pictures hired Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless in September 2019 to write a script centered on the Marvel character Madame Web.[19] Sony's executive vice president Palak Patel was overseeing the project.[20] Kerem Sanga had previously written a draft for the film.[21] In May 2020, S. J. Clarkson was hired to develop and direct Sony's first female-centric Marvel film, which was reported to be Madame Web.[22][23] The studio was looking to attach a prominent actress such as Charlize Theron or Amy Adams to the project, before hiring a new writer to further develop the film with her in mind.[22] After meeting with several "A-listers" for the title role, Sony narrowed their shortlist during December 2021 and January 2022. Dakota Johnson became the frontrunner by the end of 2021, and was in talks to star as Madame Web by early February. Clarkson was confirmed to be directing Madame Web at that time.[21]
Sydney Sweeney joined the cast in March 2022, alongside Johnson.[24] Justin Kroll of Deadline Hollywood described the project as Sony's version of the Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange (2016) due to Madame Web's comic book abilities, although he noted that the film could be departing from the source material since the comics version of Madame Web is an elderly woman, named Cassandra Webb, connected to a life-support system that looks like a spider web. Kroll noted because of this that the film reportedly could "turn into something else".[21] Grant Hermanns of Screen Rant noted speculation on whether Johnson was playing Cassandra Webb or the younger Julia Carpenter, who was the second character in the comics to be known as Madame Web.[25] A month later, Sony gave Madame Web a release date of July 7, 2023, and confirmed Johnson and Sweeney would star in the film.[26]
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura described the film as a thriller and called the titular character's clairvoyance a "tricky skill set" that was not likely to be used for an action film,[27] with Sweeney believing this approach would differentiate the film from audiences's expectations of other superhero films.[28] Di Bonaventura explained that Sony decided not to reveal many details about the film ahead of its release because the Madame Web character was not well-known to general audiences.[27]
Pre-production
Sony Pictures CEO and chairman
During the casting process, Deadline Hollywood described Madame Web as an origin story for the titular character.[30] Sony later described the film as a "standalone origin story" and a "suspense-driven thriller" that diverged from the typical superhero film genre,[39] while Di Bonaventura said it would present a fresh take on the character and her origin.[40] Clarkson sought to incorporate a female-led and grounded and gritty tone similar to her work on the Marvel Television series Jessica Jones (2015–2019), and said she was given creative freedom in making the film.[9][12] Clarkson described the center of the story revolving around Cassie's mother. The film was set in 2003 since the initial scripts, and Clarkson sought to give it a "timeless" quality by including music from the 1990s to "the edge of 2003", and by featuring vintage clothing. She opted to avoid a post-credits sequence as she felt she "said everything we needed to say".[41] The script underwent substantial changes throughout production.[42] Immediately before filming began, Sony had it shortened by 20 to 30 pages, resulting in a "disjointed" plot with "act two and three problems".[43][44]
Filming
Principal photography began on July 11, 2022,[45][46] in the Financial District of Boston through July 14, with scenes modeling 2000s New York City,[46] including Chinatown, Manhattan.[47] Filming occurred using the working title Claire,[37] with Mauro Fiore serving as cinematographer, after previously doing so for Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).[1][48] Shortly after filming started, Adam Scott joined the cast,[49] and the film's release date was delayed to October 6, 2023.[50] In late July, filming occurred in Allston at Kelton Street.[47] Zosia Mamet was cast in August.[51] Filming that month occurred in Chelsea, Massachusetts,[47] while construction of a set in Andover, Massachusetts had also begun to stand in for the 4-Star Diner, a comics location,[47][52] and took place at baseball fields in West Andover.[52] The crew often filmed multiple versions of the same scenes with slightly altered outcomes dependent on Cassie's visions, with Johnson occasionally conferring with Clarkson to deduce which scenes were real and which were set in Cassie's head.[9] As a result, filming futuristic scenes significantly increased the production workload.[42] Clairvoyance scenes required careful planning from Clarkson, which she called the most challenging in her career; she had prepared multiple call sheets and notes when filming. They were often filmed in camera, particularly to create the diopter effect. Scenes filmed with Johnson had to occasionally be done separately as she could not see what was occurring in that direction.[41]
Filming occurred in
Post-production
Sweeney's role was reported in March 2023 as Julia Carpenter,
Sony performed
Leigh Folsom Boyd edited the film after previously doing so on No Way Home.[1][48] Visual effects were provided by Digital Domain, beloFX, One of Us, and Outpost VFX.[74] Sony reported the film had a final production budget of $80 million, although The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline Hollywood both reported that sources indicated the cost of the film could have been "in the low $100 million range".[75][6] Deadline Hollywood added that despite "lackluster dailies", Sony producers chose not to fix the film's issues before release.[44]
Music
Johan Söderqvist was revealed in November 2023 as the film's composer, after previously working with Clarkson on Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).[76]
Marketing
The first trailer for the film was released on November 15, 2023. While commenting about the trailer, McKinley Franklin at
Shortly after the trailer was released, Spider-Man comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski said that while the film's interpretation of Ezekiel Sims was the same character he co-created, he believed it combined elements from the character Morlun, another Spider-Man villain he co-created in the comics who is associated with the multiverse and the Spider-Verse. Emily Garbutt at Total Film noted the trailer depicted that the film's version of Ezekiel could see into the future, compared to the comics' version who is a rich businessman who gained similar powers as the character Spider-Man through a ritual, and noted that Morlun could drain the life force of others through physical contact.[82][83]
One line of dialogue from the trailer delivered by Johnson—"He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died."—received particular mockery from commentators, with several memes incorporating the line into other film quotes;
Release
Theatrical

Madame Web premiered at the
Home media
In December 2022, Sony Pictures signed a long-term deal with the Canadian-based streaming service
Madame Web debuted as the most-purchased title on Fandango's video on demand (VOD) chart and at third on the iTunes chart following its digital release.[98] It also held that latter rank placement on Fandango for the week ending March 31.[99] Nielsen Media Research, which records streaming viewership on U.S. television screens, reported that Madame Web was the most-watched film on streaming upon its debut for the week of May 13–19, 2024, with a total of 1.16 billion minutes watched.[100][101] According to the file-sharing news website TorrentFreak, Madame Web was the second most-watched pirated film for the week ending March 25, 2024, and remained in the top ten from April 1—15.[102]
Reception
Box office
Madame Web failed at the box office and was a box-office bomb,[6][103] grossing $43.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $56.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $100.5 million.[7][2]
In the United States and Canada, Madame Web was released alongside Bob Marley: One Love, and was projected to gross $20–25 million from 4,013 theaters over its six-day opening timeframe.[5] In the days leading up to its release, theater chains noted a large amount of pre-ordered tickets were canceled after poor critical reviews emerged.[6] The film made $6 million on its first day, $2.2 million on its second, and $4.3 million on its third.[104][105] It went on to have a six-day opening of $25.8 million (including $15.1 million in its traditional weekend), finishing second behind One Love; IMAX screenings accounted for $3.1 million of the total.[75] In its second weekend the film made $6 million (a drop of 61%), finishing in fourth.[106]
Critical response
Madame Web received negative reviews from critics,
Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter believed the film did not meet its lowest expectations, calling it "airless" and "stilted". She criticized its screenplay as "mechanical" as well as the reliance on exposition "forcing people to explain themselves", while operating on a "need-to-know basis" for the audience.[1] Peter Travers of ABC News named the film the worst in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, calling it "God-awful" and "second to none in the dark art of boring you breathless".[118] The New York Times's Manohla Dargis was critical of the film's story and dialogue, which she called absurd and "snort-out-loud risible". She felt the fight sequences were "uninspired", although she did note that Johnson appeared to be "wholly detached from the nonsense swirling around her".[119] The Guardian's Benjamin Lee, Kevin Maher of The Times, and The Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin each gave the film one out of five stars. Lee felt it was "dumb and schlocky" and comparable to some of the worst superhero films made, reiterating criticisms of the dialogue as "unfunny" and "inelegant" and said the action sequences were "uninvolving". He also negatively compared the visual effects to that of "lousy network TV". Maher deemed the film "sheer mind-boggling awfulness" and declared it represented the "death of the superhero genre, the burning of the superhero genre to the ground and then the returning in the middle of the night to piss on the superhero genre's ashes". Likewise, Collin described the film as a "two-hour explosion in a boringness factory, in which the forces of dullness and stupidity combine in new and infinitely perturbing ways".[120][121][122]
In a negative review for Variety, Peter Debruge criticized the plot of Cassie "babysitting the three young ladies" for the majority of the film and called out the "less-than-sly nods to year-2003 consumerism" with the product placement of a vintage Pepsi brand, a classic advertisement for Calvin Klein, and a table dance and fight scene played to the Britney Spears song "Toxic". He concluded that Madame Web felt like an "extended soda commercial" combined with a "teaser trailer for still more spinoffs", and deemed the film's potential franchise as dead on arrival.[3] Conversely, Sam Adams of Slate said he "enjoyed the hell out of it" for being a "travesty", "disaster", and a "blight on the history of superheroes and cinema itself". He described it as "marginally competent at its best" and at its worst as "an incoherent mishmash populated by slumming movie stars who make little effort to disguise the dawning realization that they've made a terrible mistake".[123] The Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan gave it two-and-a-half stars out of four, saying that it "is no blockbuster, but in its own quiet way, it manages to break down a few barriers",[124] while Charles Pulliam-Moore of The Verge found the film "surprisingly committed to transporting you back to 2003—a golden age for comic book movies that were aggressively mid or worse".[125]
Other responses
The film was met with particular mockery directed toward the dialogue from its trailer that was not included in the final film,
Johnson was not surprised by the film's reception,[131] while Roberts defended the film and attributed its negative reception and poor box-office performance to internet culture and the jokes surrounding it.[86] Similarly, Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra blamed critics for Madame Web's box office failure, insisting that the high views on Netflix proved that the film was mistreated.[132] In contrast, Merced embraced the film's reception with the various memes surrounding it and for her enjoyment of other camp films, such as The Room (2003), Flubber (1997), and Catwoman (2004), saying she was "a little bit proud of it" for that. She also sympathized with the crew members involved in the production who may have been negatively impacted by its reception and performance,[133] with Di Bonaventura describing the film's reception as "an axe in your head" and a "harsher experience", not wanting to experience the "brutalness of failure" again when comparing the film's low box-office performance to its high viewership on Netflix.[134]
Accolades
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Dorian Awards | February 13, 2025 | Campiest Flick | Madame Web | Nominated | [135] |
Golden Raspberry Awards | February 28, 2025 | Worst Picture | Lorenzo di Bonaventura | Won | [136] |
Worst Director | S. J. Clarkson | Nominated | |||
Worst Actress | Dakota Johnson | Won | |||
Worst Supporting Actor | Tahar Rahim | Nominated | |||
Worst Supporting Actress | Emma Roberts | Nominated | |||
Worst Screenplay | Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless and Claire Parker & S. J. Clarkson
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Won |
Future
Sony had reportedly planned for Madame Web to be the first film in a potential new franchise, but following the film's low opening weekend box office and poor reception, these plans were reportedly abandoned. The Hollywood Reporter stated that while Sony was willing to take risks with their superhero films—with Madame Web avoiding the typical superhero genre tropes—the studio also wanted "home runs", with executives at Sony said to be in a "gloomy" mood after the film's poor performance. The report noted that the superhero genre had been in a transition period and that the future reception of Sony's franchise was dependent on the performance of the following SSU film, Kraven the Hunter.[6] In March 2024, Johnson said she was unlikely to make another superhero film after Madame Web, believing that she did not "make sense in that world",[131] while Di Bonaventura said in July that he was unsure if the film's characters would return in the SSU again after the film's poor performance.[134]
Following the poor box-office performance of Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter, Sony was reported in December 2024 to have abandoned both franchises, and to be instead focusing on
See also
Notes
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External links
- Official website
- Madame Web at Sony Pictures Entertainment's website
- Madame Web at IMDb