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Venom(2018)

Released

2018 · FILM

Venom

One of Drake's symbiote experiments goes rogue, bonding with a soldier and creating a powerful, unstable entity, forcing Eddie Brock to team up with a brilliant but disillusioned scientist to stop the symbiote threat before it consumes the world.

“The world has enough Superheroes.”

Directed by

Ruben Fleischer, Alina Gatti

Written by

Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg

Rated

FSK · FSK 12

Runtime

112 min

ActionAdventureSci-Fi

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Synopsis

Eddie Brock, an investigative journalist seeking to rebuild his career after a scandal, inadvertently becomes the host of Venom, a dangerous and powerful alien symbiote. As he grapples with his new abilities, Brock must use them to defend the world from a mysterious organization that is also searching for a symbiote.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 870+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan BaumgartenShot by Matthew LibatiqueScored by Ludwig GoranssonDesigned by Oliver SchollSound by Jon AiletcherCostumes by Kelli JonesVFX by Mark Breakspear

Box Office

2018 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$856.1M

Budget$116.0M

Worldwide gross$856.1M

break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $213.5M — 25% of worldwide · International: $642.6M (75%)

Opening weekend: $80.3M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $107.1M — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4,250 theaters

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Full synopsis

Also known as

Venomde
(Serbian)Otrov

Release dates around the world5 countries · show

United StatesOct 1, 2018
GermanyOct 2, 2018
United KingdomOct 3, 2018
IndonesiaOct 3, 2018
IrelandOct 3, 2018

Companies

ProductionColumbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Tencent Pictures, Avi Arad Productions, Matt Tolmach Productions

DistributionSony Pictures Releasing, ACME

Special effectsBlue Whale Studios, Double Negative (DNEG), One Of Us, Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI)

Other companiesAPM Music, Adrenaline Studios LV, Alexa, Allan Padelford Camera Cars

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