![]() While Black Widow received positive reviews from critics, holding an 82 percent critics score and 91 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, its theatrical release issues pose a problem for the MCU’s future movie launches. The movie’s second week even fell to second in the box office behind Space Jam: A New Legacy, which had relatively poor critical reviews. Black Widow’s 67 percent revenue fall even surpassed that of Ant-Man and the Wasp, which dropped a drastic 62 percent. Aside from the pandemic box office records it had set the weekend before, Black Widow set another MCU box office record: The largest second-week drop in box office sales of any MCU movie. ![]() ![]() While Black Widow’s opening weekend success seemed to forecast a wide haul with theatrical longevity for the MCU, the second weekend put all such hopes to rest. When combined with the opening weekend’s Premier Access revenue, Black Widow came in third for the biggest MCU standalone origin movie opening after Black Panther and Captain Marvel. Marvel fans were more eager than others to get back to theaters, with Black Widow having the most presale tickets of 2021 so far, even surpassing the preorder sales of MCU movies like Doctor Strange and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Black Widow’s opening weekend brought in $219.2 million worldwide with domestic box office numbers accounting for $80.4 million. While only a few big movies like A Quiet Place Part II and F9: The Fast Saga had seen wide theatrical releases before Black Widow, it took home the biggest pandemic box office haul yet in its first weekend. Black Widow was always intended to be the MCU’s first follow-up to Phase 3 and Spider-Man: Far From Home, and while it still is the first Marvel movie to be released since 2019, its hype has been overshadowed by the success of Marvel’s Disney+ series WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki. While these may not be all of the factors contributing to Black Widow’s box office slowdown, let’s take a look at why the movie’s numbers don’t bode well for Marvel and Disney’s future.īlack Widow opened in theaters the weekend of July 9th alongside its release on Disney+’s Premier Access, where account owners can pay $30 for access to the movie at home (which lasts for as long as the user has a Disney+ account). Related: The MCU Has Still Failed Black Widow - Even After Her Solo Filmĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Widow’s release date was pushed back over a year, contributing to its loss within the cultural forefront as a poignant memorial for a character fans have been with since 2010. Audiences have been quick to note that introducing Black Widow’s solo story in Phase 2 or 3 may have given more justification for her death, exploring her torn family life and close bond with Clint Barton before Endgame. Black Widow takes place immediately after Captain America: Civil War (2016), leading up to the events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which falls in the Phase 3 timeline, though technically kicks off the fourth. The long-awaited standalone movie about Natasha Romanoff’s origins wasn’t only hit by hard box office numbers, but it’s also been subject to criticism about whether it really fits within the MCU Phase it was released in.
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