<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Venom in "Venom: The Last Dance."Sony Pictures Releasing</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>"Venom: The Last Dance" is Tom Hardy's final movie as the alien anti-hero.</li><li>Sony produced the movie, and it previously made all the "Spider-Man" films alongside Marvel.</li></ul><p>When superhero fans think of Marvel movies, they tend to strictly think of the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marvel-movies-ranked-how-much-money-at-global-box-office-2021-11">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> and the Avengers. But Marvel Studios and Disney aren't the only ones adapting over 80 years of beloved comic book adventures.</p><p>In 1999, Sony and Columbia Pictures <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-02-fi-13115-story.html">bought the rights to "Spider-Man"</a> and other characters from Marvel Entertainment, which was still facing financial difficulty after filing for bankruptcy in 1996.</p><p>Fast-forward to the early 2000s, and Tobey Maguire starred in <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spider-man-1-tobey-maguire-details-easter-eggs-references-2021-12">Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man."</a> Sony continued to make Marvel movies in the years that followed and even set up its own shared universe to rival the MCU.</p><p>The studio found success in bringing the alien antihero, "Venom," to the big screen with <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-hardy-furiosa-mad-max-cameo-explained-2024-5">Tom Hardy</a> playing the lead in two movies, which have raked in $1.4 billion worldwide, according to industry data provider <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Venom#tab=summary">thenumbers.com</a>.</p><p>Here's how Hardy's third movie, "Venom: The Last Dance," stacks up against the rest of the Sony Marvel movies.</p>