Get ready for more Venom.
Sony Pictures has greenlit a third installment in the Tom Hardy-led Venom franchise, following back-to-back box office successes of 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($502 million worldwide) and Venom. from 2018 ($856). million worldwide).
The studio also announced plans for another Ghostbusters installment, which will serve as a follow-up to the 2021 reboot Ghostbusters: Afterlife ($200 million worldwide). Sony revealed its plans for both sequels during its presentation Monday night at CinemaCon, the annual trade show for theater owners. Though the studio didn’t share details on either film, it did reveal that new episodes were on the way.
The announcement came in the form of a mash-up reel that included footage of the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, “Kraven the Hunter”, “The Equalizer 3” and never-before-seen clips from Tom Hanks’ “A man named Otto.”
Studio head Tom Rothman introduced the role and announced that the studio has made different films for different audiences or – simply – that Sony Pictures Entertainment has “something for everyone”. It’s hard to argue given what quadrants his roster hits between Sony, TriStar, and Columbia Pictures.
In Venom, Hardy plays journalist Eddie Brock and his unsuspecting sidekick and parasite Venom, the otherworldly deadly protector in Sony’s Marvel Characters universe anchored by villains like Morbius and Kraven the Hunter. Sony Pictures is working on a standalone story based on Madame Web, starring Dakota Johnson as the film’s lead.
Hardy’s Venom last appeared in a credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home, a box office giant that has grossed $1.89 billion worldwide.
Jason Reitman directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife and took over the reins from his father, Ivan Reitman, who directed the original 1984 film Ghostbusters. The first film — starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Harold Ramis as ghost-trapping parapsychologists — was critically and commercially successful, later spawning sequels, animated series, video games, and an ill-fated 2016 reboot.
The 2021 sequel to Ghostbusters took place decades after the original series. The reboot follows a family who moves to a small town and discovers their connection to the legendary ghost trapping business. Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts reprized their roles from the first films, while Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace and Paul Rudd joined the cast.
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