<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress Dakota Johnson does not take any responsibility for the massive failure of the 2024 action film “Madame Web,” instead blaming “people who don’t have a creative bone in their body.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 35-year-old made the remarks while speaking with the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-06-04/dakota-johnson-celine-song-rom-com-materialists">Los Angeles Times</a> to promote her latest film, “Materialists.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It wasn’t my fault,” Johnson said of the film.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “There’s this thing that happens now where a lot of creative decisions are made by committee. Or made by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. And it’s really hard to make art that way. Or to make something entertaining that way. And I think unfortunately with ‘Madame Web,’ it started out as something and turned into something else. And I was just sort of along for the ride at that point. But that happens. Bigger-budget movies fail all the time.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actress went on to claim that she’s unaffected by the poor reception.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t have a Band-Aid over it. There’s no part of me that’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll never do that again’ to anything. I’ve done even tiny movies that didn’t do well. Who cares?”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Madame Web,” a Marvel film released by Sony Pictures about an NYC paramedic who starts exhibiting signs of clairvoyance, was a box office disappointment. It earned just $26.2 million over its six-day opening from Valentine’s Day to Presidents&#8217; Day, making it the lowest opening for any Spider-Man Universe film, including the universally reviled vampire-themed “Morbius” (2022), which made $39 million during its opening.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The movie currently has an 11% critic rating and a 53% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them,” she </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dakota-johnson-says-shes-not-surprised-that-madame-web-flopped-probably-will-never-do-anything-like-it-again"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2024 while discussing the movie’s lackluster performance. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms,” she added. “My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bullsh**. Even if films start to be made with AI, humans aren’t going to f***ing want to see those.”</span></p>

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