Madame Web will be available to rent or buy on digital storefronts today, March 15, 2024, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced.
The universally panned film can therefore be found on platforms such as Prime Video, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more, though isn’t available on streaming services yet.
“Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines,” its plot synopsis reads. “The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures, if they can all survive a deadly present.”
This version will come with a handful of digital extras including a gag real, Easter eggs, deleted scenes, and featurettes Oracle of the Page, Fight Like a Spider, Future Vision, and Casting the Web.
The film didn’t perform well critically or commercially, with Madame Web’s $17.6 million breaking records as the worst opening for any Sony Spider-Man movie, including vampire flick Morbius which made just $39.1 million in its three-day debut in 2022. It also became the first Marvel film since Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot to not open at number one.
“Madame Web has the makings of an interesting hybrid — part superhero movie, part psychological thriller — but with a script overcrowded with extraneous characters, basic archetypes, and generic dialogue, it fails the talent and the future of its onscreen Spider-Women,” we said in our 5/10 review.
Even its star wasn’t surprised the film struggled and said she probably won’t do anything like it again. “Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has,” Johnson said. “It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee.”
Sydney Sweeney, who co-starred in Madame Web, also poked fun at it on Saturday Night Live, and further reacted to the backlash by saying: “I was just hired as an actress in it.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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