Black Widow Beats F9 As Biggest Opening Weekend During Pandemic With $80M

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Disney and Marvel’s superhero adventure “Black Widow” captured a massive $80 million in its first weekend, crushing the benchmark for the biggest box office debut since the pandemic.

The film, starring Scarlett Johansson, is the first from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to open simultaneously in movie theaters and on Disney Plus, where subscribers can rent “Black Widow” for an extra $30. Disney reported that “Black Widow” generated more than $60 million “in Disney Plus Premier Access consumer spend globally,” marking the rare occasion in which a studio disclosed the profits made from streaming.

Directed by Cate Shortland, “Black Widow” collected an additional $78 million from 46 international territories, boosting its global box office haul to an impressive $158 million. Combined with Disney Plus numbers, the final weekend figure sits at $215 million. Curbing overall ticket sales, however, is the fact that “Black Widow” still doesn’t have a release date in China, which is an all-important moviegoing market for the Marvel franchise.

Black Widow pulled in 58% males to 42% women viewers. While Captain Marvel was 55% males to 45% females. Wonder Woman was a different scenario, and brought in female moviegoers with 55% females, 45% males. 

Sources:

https://variety.com/2021/film/box-office/marvel-black-widow-box-office-opening-weekend-1235016977/

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/black-widow-sets-pandemic-record-80-million-theaters-60-million-n1273647

https://deadline.com/2021/07/black-widow-opening-weekend-box-office-1234789473/

 

This is a win for female superhero movies, considering this genre have been suffering lately. This first week box office, as well as the large male demographic supporting it, definitely are going to make sure that movie studios will be in their confidence to keep releasing female fronted superhero movies, especially since movie studios were always believe male movie goers doesn't care about female fronted or all/largely female casts movies.

[judaspriest 934]

As it should. The F&F movies are for people with a one-figure IQ 

[JohnWayne92 2,291]

It’s so strange to see these numbers at the box office. As someone who has followed for so long, these pandemic numbers are absolutely ridiculous. 
 

On the plus side, films are slowly coming back, but I would say at about half of the rate if Covid never happened.
 

So, Black Widow, with Disney+ generated 140mil opening, which sounds more like a number I would have guessed. I think if Covid wouldn’t have slown down, it probably would have been closer to 170mil for America. 

[REALITY 77,914]

As she should. Well deserved  

[RichAssPiss 4,993]

13 minutes ago, JohnWayne92 said:

It’s so strange to see these numbers at the box office. As someone who has followed for so long, these pandemic numbers are absolutely ridiculous. 
 

On the plus side, films are slowly coming back, but I would say at about half of the rate if Covid never happened.
 

So, Black Widow, with Disney+ generated 140mil opening, which sounds more like a number I would have guessed. I think if Covid wouldn’t have slown down, it probably would have been closer to 170mil for America. 

Not really. $140 is not accurate to the U.S. box office. It was an $80 weekend plus $60 globally for Disney+. I've seen trades estimate about $20 million Disney+ or slightly more was in the U.S. But there is almost no data on how multiple methods to watch affect box office. I would guess it may have hit $100 million in the U.S. without Disney+ but nowhere near $170. 

[River 119,488]

damnnnt this is amazing

$30 for prime access???

here it's $12

[LaLuna 12,732]

I've heard people call it the best Marvel movie ever, I haven't seen it so I don't know, is it true? 

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25 minutes ago, LaLuna said:

I've heard people call it the best Marvel movie ever, I haven't seen it so I don't know, is it true? 

I would say that it's above average (like a 7.5-8), but certainly not the "best Marvel movie ever."

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7 minutes ago, Reality said:

I would say that it's above average (like a 7.5-8), but certainly not the "best Marvel movie ever."

Out of curiosity, which one do you think is the best then?

[Runway 27,876]

Black Widow is already a classic. Florence Pugh and ScarJo served  

[JohnWayne92 2,291]

1 hour ago, LaLuna said:

I've heard people call it the best Marvel movie ever, I haven't seen it so I don't know, is it true? 

It is good, I think it suffers from not being released when it should have been chronologically. If you go in expecting a film that’s going to live up to Infinity War or Endgame, you’ll be disappointed. 
 

For me, the film is a mixture of Winter Soldier and Atomic Blonde

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The way that Black Widow went from being an Iron Man 2 side chick, to having her own feature blockbuster movie  MPG status confirmed