In November 2023, the first trailer for Madame Web was released and a new meme was born. The superhero blockbuster, starring stars like Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) and Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), quickly became a mass gag template before critics tore it apart and the box office results disappointed.
But none of this matters to Netflix, because the blockbuster became a hit on the streaming service shortly after its release. Madame Web is currently at the top of the top 10 film charts.
Madame Web was just a ridiculous meme for many
In the trailer for the blockbuster by director SJ Clarkson, main character Cassie tells a story from her family history. now almost legendary sentence:
He was with my mother in the Amazon when she was studying spiders shortly before she died.
The way the lead actress emphasizes and delivers this sentence immediately became the template for countless memes. In this way, Madame Web tied in with the weird It’s Morbin Time!-Status of the Marvel disaster Morbius. Incidentally, the sentence didn’t even make it into the final film!
Watch a German Madame web trailer here:
Madame Web – Trailer (German) HD
Since the Marvel film was released on Netflix a few days ago, However, interest in it seems to be very high. Madame Web is currently number 1 in the streaming service’s top 10 film charts.
In the plot of the comic book adaptation, Cassandra “Cassie” Webb works as a paramedic in New York. One day she realizes that she for inexplicable reasons can see events before they happen. During one of her glimpses into the future, she must save teenagers Julia Carpenter (Sydney Sweeney), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced) and Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor) from a mysterious villain in a Spider-Man-like costume (Tahar Rahim).
In comparison, Madame Web was cheap: The 7 most expensive Netflix films of all time in the podcast
Netflix invests unimaginable sums in its original films, but the question often arises: where on earth did the money go? And was the effort really worth it? In this edition of our Moviepilot podcast Streamgestöber we look at the most expensive films in Netflix history.
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For quite some time now, the streaming service has been trying to compete with big blockbuster productions and is spending a lot of money to do so. But what will the end result be?
We take a closer look at the streaming service’s seven most expensive film projects to find out whether the nine-figure budgets can be compared to the success and quality of the films.