Sony's Venom movie hasn't generated the sort of buzz that all the other 2018 Marvel movies (and DC movie) have, but stay woke: Venom is quietly generating its own milestones. As Screen Crush's Matt Singer points out, Venom has (as of writing this) earned more YouTube views than any other Spider-Man movie, ever!
The Venom official trailer currently sits at 64 million views on YouTube - that's more than any other movie in the Spider-Man franchise (since YouTube's launch), as you can see below:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - 37M
Spider-Man: Homecoming - 28M
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (25M)
The Amazing Spider-Man (3D) - 13M
If this proves anything, it's that Sony is at least on the pulse when it comes to Venom's viability as a potential crossover hit character. It's not just the anti-hero's staying power as a comic book icon (and merchandising brand). The combination of the Spider-Man franchise being revitalized by the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man: Homecoming, and the popularity of comic book anti-heroes at the moment (thanks in large part to the Deadpool movies), has opened the lane for a franchise like Venom to come through and cash in big.
The question is: have Sony and Venom director Ruben Fleischer put together a film that will capitalize on that potential?
So far, the reaction to Venom has been somewhat mixed. For every person intrigued by a more horror-themed vision of a Spider-Man character, there seems to be a comic book fan whose highly annoyed by the lack of canon in this adaptation; the lack of attention to details like how to pronounce the word "symbiote"; or the fact that Venom is not at all connected to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe.
26-06-2018 - Vidéo
