Considering the film was a reboot, creatively you can't decided to want to do a movie within the original continuity and still keep this one in. And the film was a commercial failure, so wanting to go back to that original continuity makes some sense.
So either way you look at it, its just major sour grapes. That said while I'm not going to look it up because I have no desire to see venom, I'm positive the responses the actress got for said sour grapes was beyond the pale.