Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The unlikely dynamic duo of "Venom" and "A Star Is Born" have livened up the fall moviegoing season with the best October weekend of all time in North America. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Sony Pictures' "Venom" opened in first place in North America with $80 million, topping the previous October opening weekend record by more than $20 million, according to figures from measurement firm ComScore. (The previous record holder, sci-fi thr... more info

Time — The comic book movie shattered the October box-office record more info

Stereogum — There's a new Run The Jewels song in the new superhero movie Venom. As has become standard with Marvel films -- although Venom, the first film in Sony's Marvel Universe, was technically only made in association with Marvel -- it features a post-credi... more info

Time — Fans who stuck around mid-way through the Venom credits scene saw Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock ride his motorcycle up to San Quentin prison for an interview with a prisoner. This is possibly the big exclusive he mentioned to his ex-fiancée Anne (Michel... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In Sony’s Marvel action standalone “Venom” they battle it out as super-enemies over the fate of humanity as we know it. Last week in Beverly Hills, stars Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed sat cozily side by side on a couch, embraced, and hel... more info

Time — In the grand scheme of all movies ever made—including, say, F.W. Murnau’s exquisite 1927 silent film Sunrise and the totally useless 2015 Entourage movie—the line between a super-awesome Marvel movie and a bad one is cellophane-thin. Venom, the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Sony's super-villain saga is a dull tonal mess that belongs in 1997. more info

Detroit Free Press — In latest Marvel adaptation, Tom Hardy is bonkers as journalist who hosts alien symbiote Venom             more info

Detroit Free Press — Marvel's baddie Venom gets his own film, and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper couple up in "A Star is Born" remake.             more info