Black Widow

 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 in the notes above.

Marvel studios and walt Disney Studios

2) What is conglomerate ownership and how does it link to Black Widow?

one large corporation owns many smaller companies across different industries, like media, allowing for cross-promotion and total market control, which directly links to Black Widow because Disney (the conglomerate) owns Marvel Studios (the subsidiary), 

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

 

one way you can tell that the trailer is a big budget blockbuster movie is the fact that there are A-class actors and actresses like scarlet Johansson. Also, you can tell by the special effects and CGI that it has a 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.

. billboards

.social media

. teaser trailers

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

the budget for the film was 200 million however it made 379 million.

6) Would you consider Black Widow a successful Hollywood blockbuster? Why?

I would consider Black Widow a successful Hollywood blockbuster because it was very advertised and talked about and the quality and budget was high and good.

7) Who regulates the film industry in the UK?

The Britain Board of Film classification

8) What age rating was Black Widow given? Why?

The age rating to this film was 12a, this is because there target audience is young kids and they enjoy marvel

9) Read this feature on Marvel using a fan's tweet to help market the film. Why is audience interaction such an important aspect of modern film marketing? 

Other fans would start promoting the film so they could get recognition as well.

10) What other interesting details can you pick out of the article about Black Widow marketing? For example, you may want to make a note of some statistics, ratings or how they used TikTok influencers to help promote the film.

The marketing campaign for 

Black Widow

 was considered unprecedented due to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasized themes of female empowerment

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

 1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article?

    22 films
2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article?

    making more than $18.2bn (£13.7bn) to date.

3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films?

   Marvel created the Avengers films as the ultimate culmination of their interconnected cinematic universe

4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films?

Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold off the film rights to some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man.

5) Which company owns the rights to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men?

  Disney owns the film rights for the Fantastic Four and the X-Men

6) Look at the very end of the article. What has Disney announced regarding TV shows on their new streaming service Disney+?

Disney has also announced plans several new Marvel Tv series, including one based on Thor's adopted brother Loki, on their new streaming service, Disney+, so there'll be plenty more Marvel content to watch in future