Venom is a 2018 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel Entertainment and Tencent Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg and 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 Brock gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote, Venom, whose species plans to invade Earth.
Venom premiered at Regency Village Theater on October 1, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 5, 2018. The film was 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.
