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Black Widow (2021)
Black Widow is a film about Natasha Romanoff in her quests between the films Civil War and Infinity War. This is the 24th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first solo film for Black Widow, one of the original six Avengers. The character previously appeared in seven MCU films, including all four Avengers movies. Black Widow was originally scheduled for May 2020 but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Black Widow
- Release Date
- July 9, 2021
- Director
- Cate Shortland
- Cast
- Scarlett Johansson , Florence Pugh , David Harbour , O-T Fagbenle , Olga Kurylenko , William Hurt , Ray Winstone , Rachel Weisz
- Runtime
- 134 minutes
- Writers
- Ned Benson , Jac Schaeffer
- Budget
- $288.5 Million
- Studio(s)
- Marvel
- Distributor(s)
- Disney
- Franchise(s)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
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