blog 15: 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.

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

A conglomerate ownership is when a bigger company has ownership over a smaller company in this case Disney over marvel

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

The quality is high. and it uses a lot of background effects or CGI [computer generated images] and the actor is well known meaning that they would need a large budget to buy the actor.

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.

They used a female actor as the lead, which is uncommon as companies use male leads more, this is effective because it opens to a wider audience in this sense the female gender as it attracts them.

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

Black Widows budget was $200m and made $379m at the box office.

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

7) Who regulates the film industry in the UK?

Films is the UK are regulated by the British Board of Film Classification

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

Black widow was given a 12A this is because it contained moderate violence and injury detail

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? 

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.