Black Widow: blog tasks

1) List the companies involved in the creation of Black Widow. You may wish to use Black Widow's IMDB entry to help with this - see the company credits page - but the answers can also be found above. Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney+, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

2) What is conglomerate ownership and how does it link to Black Widow? its when a bigger company such as Disney owns a smaller company such as  marvel  this links to black widow because they own marvel they can use  there budget to make the film better.

3) Analyse the film trailer for Black Widow. What aspects of the trailer tell you this is a big-budget blockbuster movie? the  colours used and  the CGI used shows the high budget.

4) How was Black Widow promoted to an audience? List at least three different methods used by the film's marketing campaign and why they were effective in promoting the film.
  • Traditional methods such as posters and teaser trailers on TV and in cinema.
  • Stars of the film appeared on a range of TV chat shows and press events. 
  • Film trailers were released on YouTube and in cinemas. 

5) What was the production budget for Black Widow and how much did it make at the box office? it made 200m dollars.

6) Would you consider Black Widow a successful Hollywood blockbuster? Why? yes  because even though it only made 379 million which is bad  for a  marvel film how ever it had the highest money in opening week since before COVID-19 .

7) Who regulates the film industry in the UK ?British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

8) What age rating was Black Widow given? Why? 12A, at the most as the major film companies want to keep the young audience for:
  • Merchandising opportunities.
  • Better potential box office.
  • 47% of cinema audiences were aged 7-24 in the UK in 2014.  Word of mouth and peer influence is important in generating interest.

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