Black Widow Video Celebrates Marvel’s Return To The Movies

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By Cooper Hood

Published Jul 2, 2021

A new Black Widow promotional video celebrates Marvel Studios' return to movie theaters after a nearly two-year gap between MCU movies.

The latest Black Widow promotional video celebrates the return of Marvel movies. The Marvel Cinematic Universe grew to become the biggest movie franchise of all time over the last decade, with Avengers: Endgame putting a record-setting stamp on a 22-film narrative revolving around the original six Avengers, Thanos, and Infinity Stones. When it came time to launch Phase 4 of the MCU, though, the original plan was for Scarlett Johansson to lead the way with the long-awaited solo Black Widow movie.

Marvel Studios confirmed plans for Black Widow to lead Phase 4 during San Diego Comic-Con 2019, where the movie received an official May 2020 release date. This changed dramatically once COVID-19 became a worldwide pandemic that shut down movie theaters. Marvel Studios removed Black Widow's May 2020 release date and eventually moved it to November 2020. That date didn't stick either, though, as Marvel moved it to May 2021 before one final Black Widow delay to July 2021. The reshuffling of Phase 4 has left fans with the longest gap between MCU movies ever, as it will be more than two years since Spider-Man: Far From Home hit theaters.

Black Widow is now one week away from being released in theaters, and Marvel is celebrating the MCU's return to the movies. A short 15-second video hypes the end of the Marvel movie drought and features a few new seconds of footage. Black Widow officially releases in theaters and on Disney+ as a Premier Access title on July 9, 2021. Check out the promo video below:

Click here to watch Black Widow's Hero's Speech video on YouTube

Despite Black Widow's simultaneous release on Disney+, there has been a lot of focus on the movie marking the return of the Marvel movie theatrical experience. The popularity of these movies has made opening nights and weekends of new MCU movies major events and communal events for the massive fanbase. Disney and Marvel already hyped the upcoming MCU movie slate, so the decision to further highlight the theatrical experience is great to see. And since this is the first Marvel movie in two years, Black Widow will be met with open arms from fans ready to see another MCU adventure on the big screen after months of weekly content on Disney+.

The upcoming release of Black Widow will also kick off a busy year for Marvel movies. Marvel Studios' current slate has seven MCU films scheduled to be released in theaters in the next year, with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on the horizon. There will even be an eighth film, The Marvels, released by the end of 2022 too. MCU fans may have had a rough time waiting for new movies in the last two years, but they'll get plenty in the next year.