This weekend, audiences largely put their attention back on Moana and Wicked rather than Serge iKravinoff or Middle-earth.

We may never know where Sony could've gone in still trying to make its Spidey-less Spider-Man spinoff universe happen, but Kraven still gave us one potentially wild path forward.

After Venom, Morbius, and Madame Web you might not expect many, but Kraven is chock full of them.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, and Russell Crowe star in the Spider-Man spin-off, out Friday.

Kraven the Hunter might be the last Spider-Man film without Spider-Man for some time.

Hollywood is coming off a record-breaking Thanksgiving weekend, thanks to the winning trifecta of Moana 2, Gladiator II, and Wicked Part 1. Can other upcoming releases ride that wave? Perhaps that's why Sony Pictures just released the first eight minutes of its much-delayed Kraven the Hunter. which opens in 10 days.

Comic book fans are well acquainted with Kraven as one of Spider-Man's most formidable foes, a founding member of the Sinister Six. He's a Russian immigrant with an aristocratic background who fled his home country when Tsar Nicholas II's reign collapsed in 1917. He's a big-game hunter with enhanced abilities thanks to ingesting a mysterious potion made from jungle herbs. He's very hard to injure and has super-human strength and enhanced sight, hearing, and smell, and he's a good tactician with excellent hand-to-hand combat skills.

The film version appears to be an origin story. Per the official premise:

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