Black Widow anticipation thread

This.

 

Suck it up Marvel. You're not getting that golden egg this time(1 billion). Release it on streaming and just take what you can get.

250 to 300 million worldwide total is my guess

 

Let's do the Time Warp... again?!

 

i would not be surprised if it had a final gross in that range. Disney is desperate to sell this as a "prestige" film, largely because it took them 3,001 MCU films before getting around to a Black Widow solo film, but one must consider why that did not happen.

 

Ike Perlmutter and Alan Fine.

 

People keep saying Marvel should just release it, but right now, they don't really have a compelling reason to do so other than "because the nerds wanna see it!"
Remember that the longer this goes on, the longer the shortfall is going to be for new productions, so if they dump what they have waiting in the can *now*, there's nothing to fill the void later, when people might actually be willing to go see it en masse.

 

This. I've seen numerous comments from people involved with the MCU who have wanted to do a Black Widow movie pratically since ScarJo was cast, but Perlmutter refused to let them do any movies with someone who wasn't a white guy in the lead. I think it's pretty telling that as soon as he was gone we started getting movie like Black Panther, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Captain Marvel, and Black Widow. This is the first I've heard about those kind of issues with Alan Fine, everything I've seen in the past just talked about Permutter.

 

Yeah, his name seems rarely brought up, but I've read a thing here or there:

One person who works at Disney traces Perlmutter’s most recent loss of territory back to a period leading up to the 2015 Marvel Studios split when he began to side with executive Alan Fine, a longtime lieutenant of his, over Feige. Fine was a member of Perlmutter’s “creative committee,” which provided input on Marvel films and was considered responsible for several projects being delayed. Fine opposed Feige’s efforts to greenlight a movie built around a female superhero.

Clashes with Fine are believed to have contributed at the time to Feige’s desire to be rescued from Perlmutter’s sphere of influence.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/variety...-ike-perlmutter-marvel-disney-1203377802/amp/

 

Ah, OK.

 

Disney is still looking at a theatrical only release.

https://deadline.com/2021/02/black-widow-theatrical-release-disney-soul-mulan-1234692614/amp/

 

Good, i'm glad that's still the plan. Although I'm not entirely confident that release date will stick.

 

In the article they don't rule out alternatives thankfully, if the pandemic situation doesn't improve enough.

Hope I'll be able to see it from home on demand or with subscription soon.

Here in Europe, by the snail pace vaccination and overall troublesome mutating virus developments it is totally utopic to think people will go to the movie theater in late spring/summer, if they are still around and the governments restrictions allow it in the first place.

It's unfortunate this movie was many years late (due to internal issues), then delayed many times.

 

Has anyone asked Scarlett herself? It's HER movie, HER spotlight.

If she doesn't think it's worth the risk to put it in theaters, and she's publicly willing to take one for the team - just like her character did - then making BW the first (and, God willing, only) digital-exclusive MCU movie may be a more fitting tribute to both actress and character than the theatrical release would have been originally been.

 

Johansson is but one of like five executive producers on that movie. She doesn't get a say on the distribution side of things, that's 100% within the studio's purview.

 

Considering where we are with the vaccine (i.e. nothing for kids under 17; still not sure about how many in the last phase will get it and when) is it possible one more delay? Maybe late summer?

Also any word on content rating (i.e. is it like Avengers, or a different level of violence or sex)

 

Given how many other MCU movies are already shot / currently shooting / shooting soon I think they going to bite the bullet and stick to the date (give or take a few weeks) and follow up with an extra charge Disney+ release a month or two later.

 

I agree, especially since it looks like they're scheduling the Disney+ shows around the assumption that Black Widow will be out in May.

 

So, check it out. I got my first covid-19 vaccination today. My follow-up appointment is on April 19th. It takes 2 weeks for the vaccine to provide full immunity after the second shot, which would be May 4th. Black Widow is supposed come out in theaters on May 7th.

 

I'm still waiting in line. I don't know where I stand in line because Ontario under Doug Ford.

 

Last I checked, it's still a bit of a question as to whether or not one can still be a carrier once immune. Personally I'll be erring on the side of caution until either there's some definitive data or a much larger percentage of the population is inoculated.