Venom IS in Spidey 3. Fact.

*spolier alert*

At the San Diego Comic Convention, there was great excitement as a little Q&A was held with the cast and stars of Spider-Man 3. The most exciting bit was the trailer footage of Eddie Brock becoming Venom. Yes, it is official, Venom is indeed in the film in all it's glory. Many thought that the third installment was just an introduction of the symbiote, that it would just engulf Peter Parker and Venom would appear in the next film, but ooooooooooh no. To quote a rather gleeful reporter after seeing the trailer, "Venom is fucking great!". Quite.

Here is the teaser poster of the action occuring, followed by said reporters description of the events. As I said, spoilers WILL occur..............

"The footage opened with Topher dipping his fingers, crossing himself in a church. He looks completely distraught, eyes red... he looks like life has beaten him down. His voice wavers and he prays. He's alone in the church. He asks God for his help. "It's Brock, sir. Edward B-brock Jr. (stutters) I'm here... humbled and humiliated... to ask you for one thing... I want you to kill Peter Parker." Then a bunch of stuff happened that I'll get to in a second. The trailer ended with Topher and Venom.

There was a montage of quick clips of Tobey Maguire at the top of the bell tower ripping the black suit off him. "I have to stop it." The SPIDER-MAN 3 logo comes up and you think that's it... but then we saw some unfinished effects of the symbiote dripping down, falling towards Topher Grace who is looking up. One drop falls and hits his right hand, immediately wrapping around his hand. The bulk of the symbiote hits him and wraps around him, pulling him to the ground, totally engulfing him. A cut and the camera is low to the ground a good distance away. It Raimi-cams EVIL DEAD style towards the black bulking mass. As it gets near the mass, Venom's head whips up looking straight into camera, which doesn't slow down and ends up rushing into his mouth where it goes to black.

Venom's face. Exactly what you want to see. Big, big toothy mouth, bright white eyes. Looks just like the later McFarlane Venom face."