Just because a film is a box office hit doesn’t mean it’ll be a hit on streaming. In fact, sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes a film will bomb at the box office but create such curiosity that, when it hits streaming, people are willing to give it a shot anyway. Then, weeks or months later, that bomb is now suddenly a hit , just by a different metric.

A recent example of that is the 2024 film Madame Web . According to Bloomberg , the Dakota Johnson Spider-Man spin-off (pun intended) was Sony Pictures’ most-streamed movie on Netflix last year, beating all of the studio’s biggest box office hits such as Venom: The Last Dance and It Ends With Us . Each of those films grossed around $145 million domestically, while Madame Web grossed closer to $44 million . It also

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