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Oct 11, 2018

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Nerd Processor

**Why ‘Venom’ Is the Best Kind of Box Office Poison**

How Sony turned a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man into an unlikely success

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On the list of clues suggesting we’ve all fallen into an alternate timeline where the entire world has gone wrong, the fact that a movie about a Spider-Man villain where Spider-Man is literally never…

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