The MPAA rating for Sony's Venom and its runtime were revealed today. Following months of speculation that the studio would be churning out an R-rated product, Ruben Fleischer’s flick will, in fact, be rated PG-13. The film will run for 1 hour and 52 minutes.

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This news may disappoint fans who wanted to see Venom in gruesome, gory scenes eating people's brains (as the trailers teased previously), but it should come as no surprise since Venom tangentially exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe alongside Tom Holland's Spider-Man. So, despite Marvel Studios saying Sony's anti-hero is in his own cinematic pocket, a PG-13 rating does keep the door open for the character to be integrated into whatever plans Marvel Studios has later down the line.

The jury's still out on whether Tom Holland's Peter Parker will appear in the action-horror film alongside Tom Hardy's symbiote-fused Eddie Brock, but a modest rating could very well be a back-up plan for Sony, in case the studio fails to get its long-planned cinematic universe starring ancillary Spider-Man characters -- like Black Cat, Silver Sable, Morbius the Living Vampire and Kraven the Hunter -- off the ground.

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With less than a month until the film is released, the studio is ramping up the promotional campaign with a slew of TV spots, the first song off the soundtrack and creepy posters. Early tracking sets the film to break an October box office record with a potential domestic opening weekend of somewhere between $55 million and $85 million.

Swinging into theaters on Oct. 5, Venom is directed by Ruben Fleischer and stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom, Michelle Williams as Anne Weying, and Riz Ahmed as Carlton Drake/Riot.