After handing off Spider-Man creatively to the MCU, Sony took a huge gamble when it decided it was going to forge ahead and build-out a cinematic universe of Spider-Man characters without the web-slinger himself. That gamble has not only paid off, but is looking smarter and smarter by the day. Sony is the symbiote's host and Venom's continued success has just launched the studio to a box office milestone of $2+ billion internationally on the year.