Venom Movie Details:
| Movie Name | Venom |
|---|---|
| Based on | Marvel Comics |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Superhero, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
| Release Date | October 1, 2018 (Regency Village Theater) October 5, 2018 (United States) |
| Running Time | 1hr 52min |
| Age rating | PG-13 |
| Cast | Tom Hardy Michelle Williams Riz Ahmed Scott Haze Reid Scott |
| Directed by | Ruben Fleischer |
| Story by | Jeff Pinkner Scott Rosenberg |
| Screenplay by | Jeff Pinkner Scott Rosenberg Kelly Marcel |
| Produced by | Avi Arad Matt Tolmach Amy Pascal |
| Cinematography by | Matthew Libatique |
| Edited by | Maryann Brandon Alan Baumgarten |
| Music by | Ludwig Göransson |
| Production Company | Columbia Pictures Marvel Entertainment Tencent Pictures Arad Productions Matt Tolmach Productions Pascal Pictures |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Releasing |
Venom Movie Cast & Characters:
- Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom
- Michelle Williams as Anne Weying
- Riz Ahmed as Carlton Drake / Riot
- Scott Haze as Roland Treece
- Reid Scott as Dan Lewis
- Jenny Slate as Life Foundation scientist Dora Skirth
- Melora Walters as Maria
- Chris O’Hara as John Jameson
- Sam Medina as a thug that Venom confronts
- Peggy Lu as convenience store owner Mrs. Chen
- Michelle Lee as Malaysian EMT who briefly hosts Riot
- Sope Aluko as Life Foundation scientists
- Wayne Péré as Life Foundation scientists
- Scott Deckert as Eddie’s obnoxious neighbor
- Emilio Rivera as a security guard
- Ron Cephas Jones as Eddie’s boss
- Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady
- Stan Lee makes as a dog-walker who talks to Eddie
- Shameik Moore as Miles Morales
- Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker
Storyline:
After a faulty interview with the Life Foundation ruins his career, former reporter Eddie Brock’s life is in pieces. Six months later, he comes across the Life Foundation again, and he comes into contact with an alien symbiote and becomes Venom, a parasitic antihero.
Venom Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | $100–116 million |
| Opening Day | $32.7 million |
| Opening Weekend | $80.3 million |
| Domestic Collection | $213.5 million |
| International Collection | $642.5 million |
| Worldwide Collection | $856.1 million |
About Venom Movie:
Venom is an American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Tencent Pictures, Marvel, Arad Productions, Matt Tolmach Productions, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
The first film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU), it was directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by the writing team of Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, along with Kelly Marcel.
It stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and Venom alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In the film, struggling journalist Eddie gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote, Venom, whose species plans to invade Earth.
After Venom’s appearance in Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sony attempted to develop a spin-off film based on the character but it did not move forward due to issues with Sony’s ongoing Spider-Man franchise.
In March 2016, work began on a new version that would start a new shared universe featuring the non-Spider-Man Marvel characters that the studio possessed film rights to. Sony also intended for Venom to share the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), but ultimately distanced the film from Spider-Man. In March 2017, Rosenberg and Pinkner were set to write, with Fleischer and Hardy added in May. Marcel subsequently joined to rewrite the script. Filming took place from October 2017 to January 2018 in Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco.
The film was primarily inspired by the comic book miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) and the story arc “Planet of the Symbiotes” (1995). Ludwig Göransson was hired to compose the film’s score, marking his second Marvel film after Black Panther (2018).
Venom premiered at the Regency Village Theater on October 1, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 5. Despite being negatively received by critics, the film became the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018 with over $856 million worldwide and set several box office records for an October release.
A sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, was released on October 1, 2021, and Venom: The Last Dance is scheduled for release on October 25, 2024
