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Gross, who operates the cinema-consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research.
Morbius,Madame Web, and nowKravenwere disliked by both critics and moviegoers.
The genre has simply stopped growing.
Gross placesKravens failure to draw box-office first blood within a larger problem for superhero origin stories.
The classics will continue to do well, he says.