Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018)

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DarkImbecile
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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#26 Post by DarkImbecile » Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:18 am

Also, “and the Nolan films” encompasses several hundred million tickets sold (too say nothing of home video copies and streaming) all by themselves, which goes a long way toward making one a big name.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#27 Post by Big Ben » Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:33 am

Hardy is a good actor in my opinion who occasionally takes on some real WTF projects. Him taking on the role as Venom was because his son is a fan of the character.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#28 Post by tenia » Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:41 am

DarkImbecile wrote:
Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:18 am
Also, “and the Nolan films” encompasses several hundred million tickets sold (too say nothing of home video copies and streaming) all by themselves, which goes a long way toward making one a big name.
It does make for a lot of tickets sold, but it also doesn't make for a lot of movies (and I'd argue that Dunkirk isn't really a front for Hardy considering his very limited screentime in this one). Lots and lots of actors have been lucky to get one or two roles selling tons of tickets and not much else, so in this regard, it can be fair to ponder that yes, they're huge sellers, but they're also "only" 3 movies.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#29 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:28 pm

Tom Hardy is an odd phenomenon: an eccentric character actor who's become a popular leading man. I'm sure his charisma and good looks have helped him in this, but it is notable how weird and unglamorous a lot of his more popular performances are, and how unafraid he is to use peculiar and difficult vocal characteristics that risk incomprehensibility.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#30 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:29 am

Reading Never Cursed's comments on the previous page, I'm just curious as to when the Venom character was created. Was it before or after the manga series Parasyte?

EDIT: To add to the Tom Hardy comments, he also seems like the only actor to have worked out in the modern era that a well placed mask can add to the hotness factor (I wouldn't be surprised if a Phantom of the Opera adaptation was in his future somewhere down the line!)

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#31 Post by tenia » Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:06 am

colinr0380 wrote:
Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:29 am
Reading Never Cursed's comments on the previous page, I'm just curious as to when the Venom character was created. Was it before or after the manga series Parasyte?
Venom appeared in May 1984, while Parasyte was published between 1988 and 1995.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#32 Post by bunuelian » Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:48 pm

Big Ben wrote:
Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:33 am
Hardy is a good actor in my opinion who occasionally takes on some real WTF projects. Him taking on the role as Venom was because his son is a fan of the character.
It wasn't because of the $7 million they paid him? (I've taken this figure from a random website that popped up on Google, but it seems reasonable.)

I would think seven million bucks is a good incentive to put aside artistic integrity for a few months' work.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#33 Post by Dead or Deader » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:23 pm

Michelle Williams only did the role for the paycheck and to work with Hardy. Having a son whose a fan of the character sounds like a good excuse to do the project.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#34 Post by swo17 » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:27 pm

They're paying Michelle Williams to be in movies now?

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#35 Post by Dead or Deader » Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:44 pm

Movies where her co-star isn't Marky Mark.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#36 Post by domino harvey » Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:01 pm

Just saw that Venom has somehow outgrossed both Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#37 Post by knives » Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:28 pm

Worldwide only though. Domestically it still has a while to go.

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Re: Marvel Comics on Film

#38 Post by Never Cursed » Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:15 pm

I can't believe Venom did as well in China as it did - it outgrossed the other two movies domino mentioned there almost 2-to-1 (ie it made 200 million)

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Re: Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018)

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