FYI: In comics, Venom first appeared as an all-too-convenient new costume for Spider-Man. Suit up in haste, repent at leisure … :D
The Venom movie features Eddie Brock, "its second and most infamous [human] host."
Not an anti-hero. A villain. My understanding is that Venom is the result of an sentient alien symbiote bonding to a host. The symbiote alters the host's behavior, usually for the worse. While Venom symbiotes often bond to individuals in the Spider-Man "universe", a Wikipedia article says...
Are they as bad as the Godzilla vs. Bambi credits? I believe that those are actually longer than the content!
(EDIT: My mistake. I just saw it again, and the credits aren't nearly as long as I remembered.)
On the Venom site, the Marvel logo is about as big as the Columbia Pictures logo. That might lead some to believe that Marvel is associated with this Venom film, somehow.
Also, isn't the most recent Spider-Man movie ("Homecoming") a Sony production, even though it set the stage for...