More importantly, Tom Hardy’s Venom overcame years of dismissal to score an $80 million domestic debut on its way to $214 million domestic, $279 million in China and $854 million worldwide on a mere $90 million budget. Spider-Man: Far From Home was sold as an epilogue to Avengers: Endgame and earned $390 million/$1.128 billion on a $165 million budget, passing Skyfall ($1.108 billion) as Sony’s biggest global grosser. That’s one reason why Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a “flop” at $709 million but the $170 million-budgeted Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a “blockbuster” at $714 million in the same year. Spider-Man: Homecoming, featuring Tom Holland as a young Peter Parker palling around with Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and the rest of the MCU, earned solid reviews and $334 million domestic/$881 million worldwide on a $175 million budget, which is frankly what the Amazing Spider-Man movies should have cost. Six years later, Sony seems to have discovered the gold at the end of the rainbow which they were pursuing with Marc Webb’s doomed Spider-Man reboot. Alas, when the film was met with mediocre reviews and shockingly poor domestic legs, it meant that A) audiences were not jazzed for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and B) audiences were certainly not jazzed for various spin-off movies ( Venom, a young Aunt May spy flick, etc.).
Moreover, the film pandered to the hardcore fan base by killing off its female lead (Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey) which also removed both the new franchise’s most popular character and the new series’ most unique element (the romantic chemistry between Garfield and Stone).
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While the movie itself was mostly stand-alone, save for a needless subplot involving Peter’s dead parents and a mid-credits tease for a potential Sinister Six movie down the road, the marketing and in-studio expectations set the film up as a backdoor pilot for a whole new world of Spider-Man heroes and Spider-Man villains.
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