The first Venom film was directed by Ruben Fleischer and came out in October 2018. It got bad reviews, but fans seemed to love it, and it broke several October box office records (that were in turn broken this year by Joker). Venom managed to make $856,085,151 worldwide — with more than $642M of that from the international box office — so it marked a great start for Sony’s Marvel Universe. That universe is continuing with Jared Leto’s Morbius in July 2020 before Venom 2 arrives in October 2020.
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