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Sony’s Venom tracking a record October opening at the domestic box office

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This October sees the launch of ‘Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters’ with the release of Venom, which sees Tom Hardy taking on the role of fan-favourite Spider-Man villain Eddie Brock and his symbiote alter-ego. Sony has a lot riding on the film, with the studio hoping to use it as the launch pad for a […]

Preview of Marvel Comics Digest #8: Spider-Man & Venom

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This Wednesday sees the release of the latest Marvel Comics Digest from Archie Comics, which puts the spotlight onto Spider-Man and Venom with 224 pages of web-slinging action! Check out a preview here… Includes stories from: Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #51, 52, 252, and 258 Web of Spider-Man (1985) #1 Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005) #21, 24, and 35 Marvel […]

Venom will be rated PG-13 as Sony still hopes for a Spider-Man / MCU crossover

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Although early reports had suggested that Sony Pictures would be going down the R-rated route with its first entry in what is being referred to as ‘Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters‘, Variety is reporting that the upcoming Venom movie will instead look to “push the very limits of PG-13 without crossing over into a higher […]

Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff universe has an official name, and 900 characters at its disposal

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As Sony prepares to launch its Spider-Man spinoff movie universe with the release of October’s Venom, Variety is reporting that the studio has tapped Columbia Pictures president Sanford Panitch to oversee what is being referred to as ‘Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters’, or the SUMC. Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but ‘Spider-Verse’ probably isn’t […]

Get another look at Venom in new image from the Spider-Man spinoff

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A new image has arrived online from Venom, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, giving us another look at a scene from the most recent trailer in which Tom Hardy’s titular symbiote terrorises a customer in a local store; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Todd McFarlane shares his thoughts on the creation of Venom One of Marvel’s […]

Todd McFarlane shares his thoughts on the creation of Venom

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Todd McFarlane, the creator of the Marvel character Venom, has reflected on the creation of the popular villain. Venom is, of course, all the rage in 2018 thanks in large part to the Tom Hardy led movie that bears his name. Various trailers and posters have gotten many fans of the iconic Spider-Man villain excited […]

Spider-Man 3’s Topher Grace is “really excited” to see Tom Hardy as Venom

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It’s fair to say that Venom’s first big screen outing wasn’t quite what fans of Marvel’s symbiote were hoping for, with Sony pressuring director Sam Raimi to include fan favourite villain in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, which saw Topher Grace taking on the role of Eddie Brock. By Raimi’s own admission, he “didn’t really believe in the […]

Tom Hardy has revealed how Venom’s voice was created

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Tom Hardy has explained how the upcoming Spider-Man spinoff film created Venom’s distinctive voice. No newcomer to strange and iconic vocal performances after his work on The Dark Knight Rises as Bane, Tom Hardy’s latest vocal display comes as the Spider-Man villain Venom in the upcoming solo movie. Venom’s trailers have so far revealed what […]

Venom gets a new international poster

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Following yesterday’s trailer, a new international poster has arrived online for the upcoming Spider-Man spinoff movie Venom which gives us another look at Tom Hardy’s titular symbiote; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Venom director says there is no hero in the movie, explains the lack of the white spider logo One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes […]

The symbiote is unleashed in new Venom trailer

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Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming Tom Hardy-headlined Spider-Man spinoff Venom which gives us a look at plenty of new footage of Eddie Brock’s terrifying symbiotic parasite in action; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Watch the Venom Comic-Con panel featuring Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed and Ruben Fleischer, footage description revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzMz-COHuY&feature=youtu.be SEE ALSO: Venom […]