User blog:ARTaylor/Venom Released

Today is the premiere of Venom. The film is the first of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Marvel Universe, an intended series of films loosely connected to the version of Spider-Man shared with Marvel Studios. It follows disgraced reporter Eddie Brock as he investigates the mysterious Life Foundation who intend to bring a race of symbiotic alien creatures to Earth while learning to deal with his own bonded symbiote and tackling the threat of a villainous symbiote who would destroy everything on the planet.

The film was produced by Sony and Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It gives creative credit to Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie for the creation of Venom in the pages of Marvel Comics. Avi Arad produced the film with Stan Lee given executive producer credit. It includes several pieces of music by Daniel Pemberton. It features the acting talents of Lee as a dog walker, Shameik Moore as Miles Morales, Mahershala Ali as Prowler, and Jake Johnson as Peter Parker.