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Directed by | Ruben Fleischer |
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Based on | Venom by
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Cinematography | Matthew Libatique |
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Music by | Ludwig Göransson |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 112 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $100–116 million[3] |
Box office | $856.1 million[4] |
Venom is a 2018 American superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel[5] and Tencent Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the first movie in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, adjunct to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel, it stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In Venom, journalist Brock gains superpowers after being bound to an alien symbiote whose species plans to invade Earth.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from film critics, the film was positively welcomed from audience and fans alike which praised its story, humor, Eddie Brock and Venom's relationship, characters, soundtrack, special effects, cast performances (especially Hardy's double one), action scenes and the ending.