Sony Pictures’ Venom has certainly proven to be one of the surprise hits of the year, and it has continued its box office march this weekend, taking its global haul to $822 million to become the second-highest grossing superhero origin movie of all-time behind Black Panther ($1.346 billion).
The Tom Hardy-headlined movie has overtaken the worldwide total of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man ($821.7 million) and could still potentially reach Spider-Man: Homecoming ($880.2 million) and Spider-Man 3 ($890.9 million), although that may prove a bridge too far.
Produced on a budget of $100 million, Venom is Sony’s most profitable Marvel movie to date in terms of budget to gross (a record previously held by 2002’s Spider-Man with 6.3 times its $130 million budget). It has also surpassed Mission: Impossible – Fallout on $792 million to become the fifth-highest grossing movie of 2018.
Coming off the back of Venom’s success, Sony has recently dated two new Marvel releases, with one of them almost certainly Venom 2 – although the sequel is yet to be officially announced.
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One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom.
Venom is directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and features a cast that includes Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate, Reid Scott, Scott Haze, Sope Aluko and Ron Cephas Jones.
