Venom
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ruben Fleischer
Produced by	
Avi Arad
Matt Tolmach
Amy Pascal
Screenplay by	
Jeff Pinkner
Scott Rosenberg
Kelly Marcel
Story by	
Jeff Pinkner
Scott Rosenberg
Based on	
Venom
by David Michelinie
Todd McFarlane
Starring	
Tom Hardy
Michelle Williams
Riz Ahmed
Scott Haze
Reid Scott
Music by	Ludwig Göransson
Cinematography	Matthew Libatique
Edited by	
Maryann Brandon
Alan Baumgarten
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Marvel Entertainment
Tencent Pictures
Arad Productions[1]
Matt Tolmach Productions[1]
Pascal Pictures[1]
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date
October 1, 2018 (Regency Village Theatre)
October 5, 2018 (United States)
Running time
112 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100–116 million[3]
Box office	$855 million[4]
Venom is a 2018 American superhero film 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 film in Sony's Marvel Universe, adjunct to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[a] 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..