Wonder how they'll get around the fact that he's dead.

Even if they did come up with an acceptable way around that, I doubt I'll care for this movie. I haven't liked Venom as a character since his original appearance in Spider-Man, and I think they covered that quite well in Spider-Man 3. Trying to turn him into an anti-hero because he was popular was just plain stupid for the character (though not for sales obviously) if you ask me, and he's had about as much character development as Spidey's web shooters since. I'll have to hear some pretty amazing things about it to make me pay to see it.