Dakota Johnson Explains Why Madame Web Flop Wasn't Her Fault Amid Blame on 'Non-Creative' People
- Dakota Johnson reflected last year on the 2024 superhero film Madame Web, which she starred in and which bombed at the box office.
- Johnson and Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra attributed the failure to committee-led creative decisions and criticized the press for harsh treatment.
- Madame Web had an $80 million budget but grossed only $51.5 million worldwide and featured co-stars Sydney Sweeney and Isabela Merced.
- Johnson stated that the failure of the film was not her responsibility, explaining that when too many people influence creative decisions, it often hinders artistic quality.
- Johnson indicated she will likely avoid superhero roles in the future while promoting her new film Materialists, set to release June 13, 2025.
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With Madame Web something curious happened and it is that, however bad the film was and very embarrassing its failure, it didn’t go too badly for Dakota Johnson’s career. In fact, she started to like the audience very much because of the honesty and sparseness with which she took her link to Sony’s disastrous superheroic universe (that completely grounded in the shadow of Spider-Man). Johnson didn’t want to hide his discontent with the film that…
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