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Sundance Film Festival will take place in Park City, Utah from January 19th -29th and the full line-up has just been revealed.As usual, there’s a ton of new movies on offer. Stand-outs include To the Bone, a new film with with Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome with Teresa Palmer, Burning Sands with Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes, David Lowery’s A Ghost Story with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, and Anton Yelchin’s final film Thoroughbred.

Once upon a time, after “Zama” wowed audiences at the Venice Film Festival, Marvel Studios had its eye on Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel to direct “Black Widow.” The short version: Marvel wanted a woman to helm the Scarlett Johansson vehicle, and they met with several female filmmakers about the movie in 2018. Martel wasn’t interested, and directing duties eventually landed with Cate Shortland.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (“Zama”) was one of several female directors courted by Marvel Studios to direct “Black Widow,” the comic book tentpole centered on Scarlett Johansson’s assassin. Martel revealed in 2018 that she turned down the project after a meeting with Marvel in which the studio told her to focus on character and not the action scenes. In a recent interview with The Film Stage, Martel confessed she never ended up seeing “Black Widow.” “No, no, no — I didn’t see ‘Black Widow.’ I tried to,” Martel said. “They contacted a great number of female directors. I never would have imagined that Marvel could contact and bring together a pool of directors and I would be a part of it; I never thought that would be possible. I would have loved to make a film with them but I would have had to provide something that I would like to see in that world.”

In a year where Chloe Zhao won the Best Director Oscar for “Nomadland” and went on to release one of the biggest box office successes of 2021 with Marvel Studios’ “Eternals,” it appears the year, as a whole, was fairly disappointing when it comes to the gender gap in filmmaking. After 2020 saw reasonable gains in parity amongst female and male filmmakers, 2021 has taken a step back, according to a new survey.

Black Widow director Cate Shortland has revealed a scene that Marvel boss Kevin Feige fought to keep in the film.Speaking to Empire, Shortland said the dinner scene – which sees all four members of the family falling back into their roles while reflecting on their relationships – was one Feige wanted keeping in the final cut of the film.Shortland told the publication: “He doesn’t give you many directives, he’s very free.

Katie Song Disney Plus announced that Marvel Studios’ “Black Widow” will be available to all Disney Plus subscribers beginning Wednesday.In addition to Scarlett Johansson, who reprises the role of Black Widow, the action feature stars Florence Pugh, David Harbour and Rachel Weisz. Cate Shortland directed, Kevin Feige produced and Eric Pearson penned the screenplay.

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Jon Burlingame It’s a pretty rare occasion when the director of a superhero movie sits down with the composer to talk about music and neither of them ever uses the word “action” or even “superhero.”Instead, “Black Widow” director Cate Shortland and composer Lorne Balfe talked about the backstory of Natasha Romanoff and her sister, Yelena Belova.

director Cate Shortland told ET of the mysterious masked antagonist whose identity serves as one of the movie's biggest twists. «I hope that it remains a secret, because the character is so great, so scary, so cool, just such a great villain — and the reveal is good.»Now that is out, the secret is too: Taskmaster is Antonia Dreykov, daughter of the man who oversees the Black Widow-training Red Room and a character first mentioned back in 2012's.

*SPOILERS ALERT* It was back in late 2019 when rumours swirled like wildfire of Robert Downey Jr. having a cameo, reprising his iconic MCU role as Tony Stark aka Iron Man, in Black Widow.

*SPOILERS ALERT* Black Widow, which released in the US on July 9, features a post-credits scene in which Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) visits Natasha Romanoff's (Scarlett Johansson) grave post her heartbreaking death in Avengers: Endgame.

This weekend saw Disney test out a hybrid release with one of their top-tier releases, as “Black Widow” starring Scarlett Johansson hit both theaters and Premier Access on Disney+ this weekend. The studio had delayed the film’s release by more than a year due to the pandemic, and it seems to have paid off in a major way.

The director of Black Widow is opening up about a long-rumored cameo that didn’t make it into the film!

Ellise Shafer administratorMarvel’s “Black Widow” is poised to make an $87.8 million debut at the domestic box office, which would best the pandemic-era opening record previously held by “F9.”Having raked in a mighty $39.5 million on Friday from 4,160 theaters, “Black Widow” is set to easily earn another $48 million on Saturday and Sunday, with a final number that may shoot even higher than industry estimates.

Finally, Black Widow has hit theatres in the US and several other countries (not India, as of yet, unfortunately!) and is predicted to be the biggest box office draw in the COVID-19 pandemic era, overthrowing Vin Diesel and John Cena's F9.

Amidst early predictions of ruling the global box office in the COVID-19 pandemic era, Black Widow potentially marks Scarlett Johansson's last tryst as her beloved MCU character Natasha Romanoff.

MILD spoilers for “Black Widow” ahead.“Black Widow” may have been the last hurrah for Natasha Romanoff in the MCU, but it was just the beginning for her family.

As we told you over the weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow presales were set to outstrip that of Universal’s F9 at the same point in time before its opening weekend, and this morning Fandango has reported that the Cate Shortland-directed movie is their best pre-seller so far in 2021.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— It’s not free, but Marvel’s long-awaited “Black Widow” standalone comes to Disney+ on Friday for a $29.99 rental (it’s debuting simultaneously in theaters nationwide). Not entirely an origin story, not entirely a farewell, this film directed by Cate Shortland picks up in the middle with Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff.

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When it was announced that Cate Shortland was Marvel Studios’ choice to take on “Black Widow,” film fans were pretty shocked. Judging by her previous efforts, including the indie dramas “Lore” and “Berlin Syndrome,” the filmmaker wasn’t an obvious choice to make the leap to blockbuster superhero filmmaking.

Cate Shortland couldn’t understand why Marvel Studios wanted her.Although the Australian filmmaker had been working for over 20 years, there was almost nothing about her career that suggested she was the right fit to direct “Black Widow,” the long awaited solo movie for Scarlett Johansson’s Avenger.

The family that slays together does not necessarily stay together. The dysfunctional superhero family known as the Avengers learned as much when they came to blows fighting out their politics in the 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War.

“Black Widow” is a rare film for Marvel Studios. Unlike other features that have debuted over the past decade-plus, “Black Widow” is a film that is envisioned as a one-off story, mainly because the film’s star, Scarlett Johansson, has said she’s leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe since her character was killed in “Avengers: Endgame.” So, going into the feature, fans will likely understand why there’s not talk about a “Black Widow 2.” Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

Spider-Man: Far From Home,” way back in June 2019 — the film began with half the planet returning to earth after a five-year disappearance (thanks, Thanos) that shellshocked earthlings dubbed “the blip.” How appropriate, then, that the MCU restarts with its latest, “Black Widow,” in the wake of our own real-life blip. Better still, it’s a blippin’ good time.It helps that Black Widow, a k a, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), is the most enticing Marvel lead in ages.

Whether audiences are conscious of it or not, what Marvel’s Disney+ limited TV series have taught us about the MCU, at this moment, is viewers care about characters and their human struggles. Take “WandaVision,” for example, which demonstrates these strengths.

Grab your tissues, MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) fans! Scarlett Johansson may have just confirmed that Black Widow will indeed be her swan song as the beloved Natasha Romanoff during a recent appearance on Good Morning America to promote the Cate Shortland directorial.

After consequent release date delays, Black Widow is finally seeing the light of the day with MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) fans excited for next month because they'll finally get to watch Natasha Romanoff's (Scarlett Johansson) past unfold on theatre screens.

Over the years, whenever there is a new Marvel Studios film or TV project getting released, there’s this fun game where the director explains their inspiration. Typically, this is an attempt to relay what vibe or tone the filmmaker is going for that makes their superhero film seem something different than a superhero film.

Imax announced Monday that Marvel Studios’ Black Widow — set for released by Disney July 9, will debut with 22 minutes of select scenes in expanded aspect ratio exclusively in Imax.

Scarlett Johansson, who stars in and executive produces Black Widow, in a recent interview for Total Film, is sharing her honest thoughts on why she felt it was "extremely stressful" to make the highly-awaited MCU (Marvel Studios) movie.

While we're just a few weeks away from the highly-awaited release of Black Widow, Florence Pugh, who stars as Yelena Belova in the Cate Shortland directorial, was quizzed about potentially succeeding Scarlett Johansson as MCU's (Marvel Cinematic Universe) new Black Widow.

instead opening on Sept. 3.Set in the two-year span between “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Black Widow” will bring back Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha for one last ride.

Black Widow unveiled a new video clip at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards this evening.

here. First up is “Black Widow,” which is directed by Cate Shortland and takes us back in time for a proper standalone film for Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff.

Black Widow, it has been revealed.The new Marvel outing, which was recently confirmed to stream on Disney+ alongside a cinema run, is due to finally be released this summer after numerous delays related to the Coronavirus pandemic.However, speaking to The Gentlewoman, director Cate Shortland revealed that the gruelling four-month shoot took its toll on the cast and crew.“It was like being in the army,” she said, with the piece confirming that Johansson and co-star Pugh both shot the film while