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Comic Book Preview – Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble #1

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Marvel is set to release Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble #1 this coming Wednesday, and we have a preview of the issue for you here; check it out… You’ve seen ‘em duke it out in the Marvel Universe for years, but prepare to see Spidey and Venom as you never have before: as begrudging… buddies? […]

Marvel reimagines its heroes with 2020 Variant covers

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In just a few short months, 2020 will be upon us and Marvel will launch an event that’s been decades in the making in Iron Man 2020. To celebrate the landmark story, the publisher has announced a series of 2020 Variant covers, reimagining our favorite Marvel characters for the not so distant future! Check out […]

Shriek will join Carnage in Sony’s Venom 2, Naomie Harris in talks

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UPDATE: As reported by Variety, Skyfall and Moonlight actress Naomie Harris is in talks with Sony about taking on the role of Marvel villain Shriek in the studio’s upcoming sequel Venom 2. Original story follows… As Sony and director Andy Serkis continue to prep Venom 2, Deadline is reporting that Woody Harrelson’s Carnage won’t be […]

Venom director Ruben Fleischer thinks we’ll see a Spider-Man crossover

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Venom and Zombieland: Double Tap director Ruben Fleischer hints that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and Tom Hardy’s Venom is the destination and will crossover in the future. While promoting his newest film, Zombieland: Double Tap, Fleischer was asked by Fandom if Spider-Man and Venom would come face-to-face to which he admitted that the end goal is for Holland and […]

X-Men producer joins Venom 2 as November start date eyed

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With the franchise coming to an end following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, longtime X-Men producer Hutch Parker is heading to another cinematic superhero universe as THR reports that Sony has enlisted him to produce Venom 2. Parker first joined the X-Men franchise for 2011’s The Wolverine, and worked on X-Men: Days of Future […]

Andy Serkis discusses Venom 2, confirms Tom Hardy has been involved with writing

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This week it was announced that Andy Serkis is set to take on directing duties on Venom 2, teaming with Tom Hardy for a sequel to Sony’s Ruben Fleischer-helmed superhero blockbuster, and now Serkis has been chatting to GameSpot about his involvement with the film. “I’m right in the beginning stages, so I’ve got some […]

Andy Serkis, Travis Knight and Rupert Wyatt have met with Sony about directing Venom 2

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With Ruben Fleischer busy with post-production on Zombieland: Double Tap, it seems that Sony is wasting little time in finding a replacement for the filmmaker on Venom 2, with Variety reporting that the studio has recently met with three potential directors for the Marvel sequel. According to the trade, Andy Serkis (Mowgli: Legend of the […]

Venom producer says “no timetable” for the sequel as yet

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Sony kicked off its Universe of Marvel Characters last year with the release of Venom, the Tom Hardy-headlined film defying critics and putting the shared Spider-Man-themed universe on a firm footing with a whopping worldwide box office haul $855 million. With those kinds of numbers, it came as little surprise when Sony announced an October […]

Marvel releases trailer for Absolute Carnage

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With Marvel set to unleash Absolute Carnage this August, the publisher has released a trailer for the all-encompassing Venom event which promises “to shake the symbiote world to its core”. “We’ve given a serial murderer a nuclear bomb, essentially, and Cletus is gonna try and kill every single character that has ever worn a symbiote,” […]