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Sony Has Given Us A Second Trailer For ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’

Tony Schaab - Senior Editor — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:15:20 +0000

The sequel to 2018’s Tom Hardy-ed ‘Venom,’ titled ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage,’ is heading to theaters sometime later this year – Sony’s official press releases say “this Fall,’ but a precise date remains surprisingly unannounced. Nevertheless, the fine folks at the studio have graced us with a second trailer to view, following up on the first trailer released earlier this year. The first film grossed $856 million at the worldwide box office, making it’s profit estimated around $247 million and being one of the better financial successes of the 2018 theatrical releases. Of course, here in 2021 we find ourselves in a slightly different world in terms of theater-going and in-person entertainment, so it remains to be seen how this sequel will fare on the big screens – and this uncertainly could possibly be part of what is holding Sony back from announcing an official release date for the film. Regardless, the movie itself seems ready to rock, and if the new trailer is any indication, Woody Harrelson is ready to wreak some havoc in the sub-titular role of Carnage, aka Cletus Kasady Gone seems to be the curly-red wig Cletus donned in the credits scene of ‘Venom,’ […]

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Behold The New Trailer For ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’

Tony Schaab - Senior Editor — Mon, 10 May 2021 15:26:17 +0000

As the world slowly tries to get things back to normal(ish) in a post-pandemic landscape, a return to movie theaters is in sight, with many chains already having opened their doors in limited capacities in areas around the United States. Even though it might feel more further out, September is only 4 months away, and in that month, Sony will bring Marvel fans the second installment in the Venom film franchise, titled ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage.’ The name is an obvious direct acknowledgement of the fact that another villain from the Spider-Man realm, Carnage aka Cletus Kasady, will be making his cinematic debut. Portrayed in the new film by Woody Harrelson (as he technically reprises the role from the mid-credits scene of the first ‘Venom’ film), Carnage is not the only bad guy that anti-hero Venom/Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) will have to contend with; although shown sparingly in this trailer, we get our first look at Naomie Harris as fellow insane-asylum inmate Shriek. In the Marvel Comics, Shriek is a mutant with the ability to manipulate sound; she debuted in comic pages in the 1990s around the same time as Carnage, and the two characters have often been portrayed […]

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‘Venom 2’ Gets A New Title– ‘Let There Be Carnage’– And A New Release Date

Jax Motes — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:30:29 +0000

Sony has officially revealed that the sequel to ‘Venom’ will be named ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’, but has also announced that the highly-anticipated sequel to 2018’s surprise smash has been postponed from its June 25, 2021 release date, to October 1, 2021. The reason is exactly what you think it is– the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Although there is hope that the movie industry and all others will start to bounce back within the next few months, the month+ shutdown that we’ve already endured has forced a lot of movies to already be pushed back due to productions or post-production work having to cease as everyone was urged to quarantine at home. The movies ‘Tenent’ and ‘Mulan’ were rescheduled for late July of this year and there is still hope that they will open at that time, but the film industry has so many moving parts, from the studios to theaters, not to mention state-enforced shelter-in-place regulations that will impact those decisions. Motion-capture ace Andy Serkis helmed ‘Venom 2’, and stars Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams are returning. Woody Harrelson, who made a surprise cameo during the post-credits scene of the first movie, will be back as the serial killer […]

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Roberto Orci Is Writing A Mystery ‘Spider-Man’ Spin-Off Movie For Sony

Jax Motes — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:49:05 +0000

‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ co-writer, Roberto Orci, has been tapped to write an unspecified ‘Spider-Man’ spin-off movie for Sony, with Executive Vice President Palak Patel overseeing. This was reported by The Wrap, and literally that is ALL that was announced. In February, a RUMOR emerged that Sony might be developing a movie about ‘Spider-Woman’, but I kind of doubt this is what Orci would have been hired to write. In addition to ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’, Roberto Orci co-wrote the screenplays for the ‘Star Trek’ and its two sequels, and movies such as ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ and ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’. He has also created or co-created the TV shows ‘Fringe’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’, and ‘Hawaii Five-O’. For the majority of his professional career, Orci was partnered with Alex Kurtzman, but that collaboration ended in 2014. RELATED: The Japanese Spider-Man Is Already Designed For ‘Into The Spider-Verse 2’ Sony kicked off its free-standing Spider-Verse with ‘Venom’ in 2018. That picture was directed by Ruben Fleischer and starred Tom Hardy in the title role, plus Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed. That film did not reference the existence of Spider-Man, who, at the time, was part of the Marvel Cinematic […]

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Toy News Tuesday: Til Death Do Us Part

Jordan DesJardins — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:29:26 +0000

Welcome back one and all to an all-new Toy News Tuesday! We’re the one weekly column right here on ScienceFiction.com where we seek out all of the awesome news you need to know about any announcements and cool happenings in the toy industry and put them all in one easy to find place for you! We have officially made it to Toy Fair week! Sadly that also means that this week’s news is super light while we wait for the massive avalanche of news this weekend. Thankfully we still have a few awesome tidbits of news in store for you in the toy news for the week of February 18th, 2020 below! Hasbro Wants Your Vote Election day here in the U.S. may still be a few long months away, but Hasbro is asking for your vote this weekend! This week Hasbro announced an all new Fan Poll that will be launching on Saturday 2/22/20 and ending on Friday 2/28/20 where fans can vote for an upcoming 6″ scale Marvel Legends figure. The winning figure will be announced shortly after the polls close and the figure will be available for sale on Hasbro Pulse this summer! It is anticipated that […]

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RUMOR MILL: Sony Schedules A Mystery Marvel Movie For Next October; Will It Be ‘Spider-Woman’?

Jax Motes — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:31:31 +0000

RUMOR MILL: This information is strictly RUMOR for now, so take everything with a grain of salt. Just days ago, word emerged that Sony had scheduled an unidentified Marvel movie to be released on October 8, 2021. The studio already has ‘Morbius’ due on July 30 of this year, and ‘Venom 2’ is expected on October 2. (The latter just wrapped filming yesterday.) Sony’s web continues to grow. UNTITLED SONY/MARVEL pic now set for Oct. 8, 2021. — Exhibitor Relations Co. 2: Box Office Boogaloo (@ERCboxoffice) February 11, 2020 Sony has the rights to all characters related to Spider-Man. ‘Venom’ was the first film to deliver one of them, and ‘Morbius’ will be the next, but over the years, Sony has teased movies featuring Kraven the Hunter, Madame Web, Silk, Black Cat, Silver Sable, and Black Cat & Silver Sable combined. But now scooper Daniel Richtman has shared a RUMOR on Twitter: Two months ago I heard they are developing a Spider-Woman movie so it’s likely that one that is set for next year. Maybe — Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) February 11, 2020 There may be more to this than idle chatter. Another GOSSIP source, Illuminerdi, reports that Sony would like […]

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Toy News Tuesday: The Cats Meow

Jordan DesJardins — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 01:25:11 +0000

Come one! Come all! Its an all new Toy News Tuesday! We’re the one weekly column right here on ScienceFiction.com where we seek out all of the awesome news you need to know about any announcements and cool happenings in the toy industry and put them all in one easy to find place for you! Its been a busy week and boy have we got some great stuff in store for you! As usual, with the beginning of February comes a massive influx of big news in the toy industry. New York toy fair is just three weeks away and we have so much to look forward to from so many of our favorite companies that you definitely won’t want to miss! In the meantime, this week we have some fantastic new items from some of our favorite companies like Diamond Select Toys, NECA, Hasbro, Sideshow Collectibles, and more! Don’t waste another minute, scroll on down to the Toy News for the week of February 4th, 2020! “I Would Like To See The Baby” It’s been months since the first season of ‘The Mandalorian’ wrapped up on the Disney+ streaming service, and the world is still busy obsessing over the […]

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Toy News Tuesday: Whats Going On?

Jordan DesJardins — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:26:39 +0000

Happy New Year and welcome back once again for an all new Toy News Tuesday! We’re the one weekly column right here on ScienceFiction.com where we seek out all of the awesome news you need to know about any announcements and cool happenings in the toy industry and put them all in one easy to find place for you! It is OFFICIALLY 2020, the year of the future! How many sci-fi films are set during this year? Hell, the future portion of ‘Back To The Future’ was set half a decade ago at this point! This yesr is pretty definitively ‘the future’ and WE are living in it. What else is great about the future is the insane number of new toys we have to talk about! Don’t waste another second, scroll on down to the Toy News for the week of January 7th, 2020! More Power Rangers Ready To Go-Go Since taking over the Power Rangers brand last year, the team at Hasbro has been knocking it out of the park and keeping the hits coming with their 6-inch scale ‘Power Rangers: Lightning Collection’ toyline. This week Hasbro announced the complete lineup for their fourth wave of figures […]

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Producer Says They Have Thought Of Making ‘Venom 2’ Rated-R After The Success Of ‘Joker’

Jax Motes — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:50:50 +0000

There had been talk that ‘Venom’ might have been rated R, but ultimately it arrived with a PG-13 rating. This was done to make the film more compatible with the existing superhero movies, including the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise, even though there was no direct connection between ‘Venom’ and ‘Spider-Man’ at that time. Now that Warner Brothers ‘Joker’ is a runaway success, having become the first R-rated movie to cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office, ‘Venom’ producer Matt Tolmach says that ‘Venom 2’ might actually go a little darker into the same territory. RELATED: Andy Serkis Is Confirmed To Be Directing ‘Venom 2’ Speaking to Cinema Blend, Tolmach said: “I mean, I think you always have to think about [it], now that that works. Having said that, our movie worked really well. Our franchise exists as it is, and I don’t think anybody is looking to just say, ‘Hey, they [did it]!’ We have a place in the world. So it isn’t like suddenly everybody’s considering what to do with the rating. … I think what ‘Joker’ does is it tells you that you can succeed. For a very long time, that was the narrative. And […]

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‘Venom 2’ Sinks Its Teeth Into ‘The Irishman’s Stephen Graham

Jax Motes — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 01:53:47 +0000

Stephen Graham (‘The Irishman’, ‘Rocketman’) has reportedly joined the cast of ‘Venom 2’, which is being directed by Andy Serkis, and has already been partially filmed. Graham’s role has not been disclosed. The first ‘Venom’ was a surprise hit last fall, earning $855M worldwide, despite poor reviews. The sequel is due to hit theaters in the fall of 2020. Tom Hardy returns in the lead role of underground reporter Eddie Brock, with Michelle Williams as his former finacée Anne Weying. Woody Harrelson, who made an uncredited cameo in the first film as killer Cletus Kasady, will return and it is believed he will take on the form of symbiote Carnage. Naomie Harris is believed to have joined the cast as Frances Barrison, a.k.a. the sonic-powered sycophant Shriek. Graham won two SAG ensemble awards for the cast of HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’. He played Al Capone. He can currently be seen in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix movie ‘The Irishman’, which is being pushed as an awards contender. Earlier this year, he appeared in the Elton John musical ‘Rocketman’, his voice was heard as the pig-like Gruagach in the flop ‘Hellboy’, and he appeared in the British miniseries, ‘The Virtues’. He will next be […]

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Toy News Tuesday: The Scarlet Speedster Strikes

Jordan DesJardins — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:41:11 +0000

Hello one and all! We are proud to once again welcome you to an all-new Toy News Tuesday! We’re the one weekly column right here on ScienceFiction.com where we seek out all of the awesome news you need to know about any announcements and cool happenings in the toy industry and put them all in one easy to find place for you! Halloween is almost here and there’s something spooky in the air as fall hits the midway point. Lots of great new fall products are hitting the stores as we get ready to head into the holiday season. This week we are taking a look at new items from Super7, NECA, Hot Toys and more, so breathe deep and dive on into the Toy News for the week of October 22nd, 2019! T-U-R-T-L-E Power! While we got our first taste of these earlier this year in an SDCC 2019 exclusive box set, this week Super7 has officially released their first full wave of 3.75″ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ReAction Figures! The previously released SDCC 2019 exclusive box set included the four Turtles (Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael), but this wave will offer a different mix of single carded figures on […]

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‘Venom 2’ May Have Found Its Shriek In Naomie Harris

Jax Motes — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:38:57 +0000

It was a big week for bad girls. Zoë Kravitz was announced as the new Catwoman in Warner Brothers’ ‘The Batman’, and it was revealed that the sequel to ‘Venom’ would introduce Shriek. Now comes word that Sony is in talks for Naomie Harris to take on the role, as a sonic-powered supervillain that is in love with symbiote Carnage, who will be played by Woody Harrelson. Harris was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the movie ‘Moonlight’. (The film itself won Motion Picture of the Year and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Mahershala Ali won for Best Supporting Actor.) She may be better recognized for playing Eve Moneypenny in the current James Bond franchise, having appeared in ‘Skyfall’, ‘Spectre’, and the upcoming ‘No Time to Die’, or for playing Tia Dalma in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise. She will next be seen in the cop drama ‘Black and Blue’ with Mike Colter, and next year, she will be seen in the HBO series ‘The Third Day’ with Jude Law. Shriek– real name Frances Barrison– is a mutant with sonic powers. She can project sonic blasts, fly and use her powers to manipulate people, drawing out their darkest […]

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Ruben Fleischer Shares Why He Didn’t Return For The ‘Venom’ Sequel

Stuart Conover — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:39:14 +0000

We already know that director Ruben Fleischer isn’t returning for the ‘Venom‘ sequel and Sony Pictures has tapped Andy Serkis to replace him, and now we know why that is. The first movie made over $850 million at the box office and clearly has a fanbase in place. It seems a little surprising that a director wouldn’t return for the sophomore release of such a box office hit. However, the reason why is straight forward and makes a lot of sense. It also has nothing to do with many critics and fans thinking that the movie was: RELATED: Sony And Ruben Fleischer Reportedly Have Parted Ways And A New Director Is Sought For ‘Venom 2’ No, it has everything to do with the current release of ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’: “I was busy getting this movie done. I think they’re already shooting that film. And I just finished this a couple weeks ago. So the schedule didn’t allow it. I think they’re trying to get that movie out for next fall. Two years from the original release. I basically went from finishing Venom. I had a week off with my family. And then went straight into prep on […]

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Carnage Is Getting Company, As ‘Venom 2’ Reportedly Includes Shriek

Jax Motes — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:11:54 +0000

Woody Harrelson‘s Carnage will have company in ‘Venom 2’, as it has been reported by inside sources (via Deadline) that the Marvel villain Shriek is also in the script to the sequel. Introduced in 1993’s ‘Spider-Man Unlimited ‘Vol. 1 #1, Shriek (real name: Frances Louise Barrison) is a mutant with sonic powers who is typically depicted as Carnage’s lover. (Obviously, she’ll be given a different origin, as Disney now has the rights to “mutants” on lock.) One source revealed: “Right now the role is not filled, the net is cast wide toward many kinds of actresses. [The filmmakers are] looking mostly at unknowns right now.” Frances Barrison (who previously used the alias Sandra Deel) was a drug dealer, whose powers surfaced after an encounter with Cloak & Dagger. She has a “mother complex” due to suffering emotional abuse from her own matriarch. After she allies herself with Carnage– who is shown to not truly care about Shriek despite her devotion to him– they adopt other symbiote villains as their “children.” RELATED: Andy Serkis Is Confirmed To Be Directing ‘Venom 2’ She can fire sonic energy blasts, fly, and can manipulate the emotions of others, drawing out their violent […]

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Jesse Eisenberg Basically Confirms He Will Not Play Lex Luthor Again

Jax Motes — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:45:47 +0000

Jesse Eisenberg is back in the role of unlikely hero, as the brainy Columbus in ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’. He has also appeared recently in the indie films ‘Vivarium’, ‘The Art of Self Defense’ (both of which happen to co-star Imogen Poots), and ‘The Hummingbird Project’. While Eisenberg tends to favor lower-budget indies, he does occasionally pop up in higher-profile projects. Perhaps the highest-profile role for Eisenberg has been as comic book villain Lex Luthor in the DC cinematic universe. Drawing heavily from Eisenberg’s own portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Network’, director Zack Snyder concocted a youthful, wunderkind Luthor that sputtered with manic energy. This interpretation of the character was hated by fans, as were Snyder’s DC movies in general. Despite a post-credits cameo in ‘Justice League’ in which his Luthor proposed forming an evil “League” to stand up to the assembled heroes, Eisenberg has seemingly declared that he will not be back to the DC Universe. RELATED: Lex Luthor Didn’t Have Any Scenes Cut In ‘Justice League’ According To Jesse Eisenberg This admission came during an interview alongside his ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ co-star Woody Harrelson, with ComicBook.com’s Josh Wilding. Like Eisenberg, Harrelson has also […]

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