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Spider-Man spinoff Venom has a release date

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 scribe working on film

Friday 17 March 2017 13:21 GMT

Last year, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man debuted in Captain America: Civil War, thus introducing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s very own web-slinger.

Getting Spider-Man into the MCU wasn’t easy, though: the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming - which features Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man - will be distributed by both studios with rumoured contract clauses detailing certain requirements to be fulfilled by both studios.

What’s made things even more complicated is Sony’s enduring endeavour to keep producing Spider-Man spin-offs that aren’t related to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.

For instance, the Sinister Six film teased in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was only cancelled months after the Marvel deal was announced.

Films to get excited about in 2017

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Films to get excited about in 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Director: Rian Johnson

Cast: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Lupita Nyong'o

Plot: No details yet, but it will continue directly on from Rey coming face-to-face with Luke at the end of The Force Awakens.

Release Date: 15 December 2017

Films to get excited about in 2017

Thor: Ragnarok

Director: Taika Waititi

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Karl Urban, and Mark Ruffalo

Plot: Story details are minimal as of now, but Thor's third return to screen has already been teased to feature a loose adaptation of the famous 'Planet Hulk' storyline.

Release Date: 27 October 2017

Films to get excited about in 2017

You Were Never Really Here

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola

Plot: A war veteran's attempt to save a young girl from a sex trafficking ring goes horribly wrong.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

Annihilation

Director: Alex Garland

Cast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Isaac

Plot: A biologist's husband disappears. She thus puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not quite find what she's expecting. The expedition team is made up of the biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

Wonderstruck

(image from Far From Heaven)

Director: Todd Haynes

Cast: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Amy Hargreaves

Plot: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

Mother

(image of Darren Aronofsky)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, and Ed Harris

Plot: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

(image from The Lobster)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and Alicia Silverstone

Plot: A surgeon forms a familial bond with a sinister teenage boy, with disastrous results.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

Blade Runner 2049

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto

Plot: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Release Date: 6 October 2017

Films to get excited about in 2017

Lady Bird

(image of director Greta Gerwig)

Director: Greta Gerwig

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Lucas Hedges

Plot: The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

(image of director Steven Spielberg and star Mark Rylance)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Mark Rylance, Oscar Isaac

Plot: The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara recounts the story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

Cast: Elle Fanning, Ruth Wilson, and Nicole Kidman

Plot: An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.

Release Date: Unknown

Films to get excited about in 2017

The Dark Tower

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Taylor

Plot: Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.

Release Date: 28 July 2017

Films to get excited about in 2017

Suburbicon

Director: George Clooney

Cast: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, and Oscar Isaac

Plot: A crime mystery set in the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, where the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and betrayal.

Release Date: 24 November

Now, Sony has announced the release date for Venom, the Spider-Man villain who predominantly featured in the third Tobey Maguire blockbuster.

The studio has scheduled the film for an 18 December 2018 release slot, the spot previously held by the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel. DC’s Aquaman reaches cinemas 21 December that year - it’s going to be a superhero filled Christmas.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner recently turned in a script for the film, the latter writer having also working on The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Sony apparently hope Venom will launch an entire franchise, probably including the once rumoured Aunt May solo-film. Whatever the case, expect casting in the near future.

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