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Venom is a 2018 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics Spider-Man character of the same name and the first film in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe. It was released on October 5, 2018.

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An outer space craft belonging to medical organization, the Life Foundation discovers four extraterrestrial lifeforms that have been brought down to Earth. One escapes in transit, causing the ship to crash in Malaysia, but the Life Foundation recovers the other three symbiotes to their research facility in San Francisco in America. Its CEO, Carlton Drake, became obsessed with the symbiotes and their bondage to humans, to prepare humanity for Earth's inevitable ecological collapse, and begins illegally experimenting on numerous low-class citizens, to the point of a number of deaths, including one of the remaining symbiotes. Eddie Brock arranges an interview with Dr. Drake through his fiancée Anne Weying, a lawyer affiliated with the Life Foundation. Against his instructions, Eddie confronts Carlton with questions regarding the many problems with what he was doing, using things from what he stole from Anne's email, leading to them both being fired from their jobs and ending their relationship.

Six months later, Eddie is approached by one of Carlton's scientists, Dora Skirth, who disagrees with Carlton's actions and wants to help Eddie to expose him. With Dora's aid of breaking into the facility, Eddie goes inside a room to acquire evidence from his crimes, in the process learning that his friend, Maria, has become one of Carlton's subjects. Eddie attempts to rescue her, but Maria attacks him and the symbiote inside her transfers from her body to Eddie, resulting her to be killed from it. Eddie manages to escape, but soon begins to feel strange and sick and reaches out to Anne for help. Her new boyfriend, Dr. Dan Lewis, examines Eddie, discovering the symbiote and learning that it is vulnerable to noise. Meanwhile, Carton realizes the breaking and entering of Eddie due to Dora's attempt to expose her, Carlton decided to kill Dora for her betrayal by letting one of the symbiotes to kill her.

Back at his apartment, Eddie is attacked by mercenaries led by Roland Treece and has been the ordered by Carlton to retrieve the symbiote, but the symbiote takes over his body and begins to attack out of Eddie's control. Eddie manages to escape from the scene and get away from the drones and rest of the mercenaries chasing him. Eddie was eventually crashed and was horribly injured. After being transforming him into a monstrous creature and began to attack the rest of the mercenaries. Taking shelter at a nearby lighthouse, the symbiote communicates with Brock, introducing itself as "Venom", and persuades him to form an alliance, so that he can experience life as a human. Eddie uses his superhuman attributes to break into his old workplace to turn in evidence of Carlton's crimes, but is intercepted by mercenaries on the way out and transforms once again to escape, aggressively attacking them from every corner. Anne calls him back to Dan's office, where Eddie learns that the symbiote is slowly killing his body. Although the symbiote claims it is part of their symbiosis, Eddie uses an MRI machine to weaken the symbiote, separating from it, but was then captured by Carton's mercenaries.

At the Life Foundation, Eddie learns that Drake has bonded with a particular symbiote, and that they are planning to launch a probe into space and bring a legion of symbiotes Earth in order to bond with the human race. Later on, Anne oppositely bonds with the symbiote and breaks into the Life Foundation to rescue Eddie, transferring the symbiote back to him with a kiss. Eddie and the symbiote merge once again and set out to stop Carlton and Riot symbiote, battling them on the launch platform. Venom and Riot begin fight, however, the two eventually were separated until Riot overpowers Venom. Carlton stabs Eddie and left him on the platform. As the probe takes off, the Venom symbiote manages to damage it, causing it to explode and kill Carlton and Riot symbiote. Shortly afterwards, Eddie made amends with his relationship with Anne and returned to journalism, while secretly keeping the symbiote. Anne exposes the Life Foundation, while Eddie and the symbiote go on as the city's "Lethal Protector".

In a mid-credits scene, Eddie goes into a prison and prepares to interview incarcerated serial killer, Cletus Kasady. Eddie approaches Cletus' cell and begins to interview him. Cletus expresses a mindset of vengeance and says that when he gets out, "there's gonna be carnage."

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In March 2016, it was announced that Sony is moving forward with a standalone film by hiring Dante Harper to write the script for the film with Arad and Matt Tolmach producing. The film will have no connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Spider-Man and will be set in its own continuity.[1][2][3] It was announced by Sony that the spin off will be release on October 5, 2018 with Alex Kurtzman directing the film.[4][5] On May 19, 2017, Sony announced that Tom Hardy will star as Eddie Brock and Ruben Fleischer will direct the film.[6][7] Originally reported as its own continuity[8] (along with Silver & Black starring Black Cat and Silver Sable) which would exclude Spider-Man called Sony's Marvel Universe.

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