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This is Us’ Ron Cephas Jones joins Venom

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Though it is just a couple of months until its release, Venom has added This is Us and Luke Cage actor Ron Cephas Jones to its cast. His role hasn’t been revealed yet. This will mark Jones’ first foray into the superhero genre on the big screen. He was originally going to play The Wizard in Shazam!, but had to drop out […]

Preview of Venom: First Host #1

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Marvel launches its new series Venom: First Host this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here; check it out… MIKE COSTA AND MARK BAGLEY REUNITE FOR A VENOM STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHER! Before the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN…before VENOM… There was the FIRST HOST. And that First Host has returned […]

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 […]