“Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock in #Venom, the upcoming film from Sony’s Marvel Universe releasing October 5, 2018, production starts this fall.”
If the characters being used for these movies in Sony’s Marvel Universe can’t be used for MCU Spider-Man movies, that will take a lot of important characters off the table.
But in the announcement, Sony also confirmed that they are starting their own cinematic universe, currently dubbed Sony’s Marvel Universe.
In the caption provided with the photo, the studio announced that production on Venom starts this fall, but more importantly, it will kick off Sony’s Marvel Universe.