Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), the film sees Romanoff on the run and forced to confront her past as a Russian spy before she became an Avenger. Lionsgate Films began developing a Black Widow film in April 2004, with David Hayter attached to write and direct.

Marvel Studios In Marvel Studios' action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.

The Disney subsidiary behind Black Widow is called Romanoff Productions UK in a nod to the heroine's secret identity, Natasha Romanoff. Its financial statements show that Disney spent a total of $288.5 million (£229.3 million) on making Black Widow.

Black Widow transcends the movie's action as a surprisingly sober and poignant story of familial loyalty, trust, and intimacy. These more subtle and nuanced moments are the ones most likely to give the movie an enduring audience on streaming platforms. These themes were also central in Captain America: Civil War.

black widow (plural black widows) Any of several species of venomous and potentially deadly spiders, particularly Latrodectus spp.. A woman who kills one or more of her lovers. A female suicide bomber, sometimes one intending to avenge her husband who was killed.

Natasha RomanovaBlack Widow Despite super spy Natasha Romanova's checkered past, she's become one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most deadly assassins and a frequent member of the Avengers. Despite her origins as an agent of evil, Natasha Romanoff has become a force for good in the world of covert intelligence and super heroics.

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film and television production company that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

Black Widow is a bittersweet goodbye to the MCU's first female superhero. On the one hand, the film provides closure for a character with a troubled yet unexplored past. We'd heard that Natasha had “red in her ledger” as early as The Avengers, and yet we never knew what that was referring to.

Black Widow was the most successful hybrid release of 2021; in court filings, Disney revealed the film made more than $125 million through the Premier Access model, alongside its $379.6 million in the global box office.

Moreover, as an individual, she has always valued the Avengers as a family even though they did not reciprocate; this movie tells us why she's built that way, and why she stood by Captain America in “Infinity War.” It gives Black Widow's parents who loved her even though they couldn't save her, and a sister she can be ...

Interesting Things About Black Widow Spiders

• They Aren't Always Black.
• Only Adult Females Inflict Dangerous Bites.
• Most Can Be Identified by a Red Hourglass Marking.
• Spiderlings Don't Resemble Adult Black Widows.
• They Make Cobwebs.
• Their Venom Is 15 Times as Toxic as a Prairie Rattlesnake's.
• Their Bites Are Rarely Fatal.

Black Widow is a reference to the spider. Widow spiders are named as such because they typically kill their mate (thus becoming widows). Black Widow spiders are a poisonous variant. Hence, black widow is used to refer to a woman who kills one or more of her spouses/lovers.

Natalia Alianovna Romanov (Russian: Наталья Альяновна Романов) was born on December 3, 1984, in the Soviet Union, and was trained as a KGB spy in a secretive academy called the Red Room which involved training as a ballerina as a cover, as well as the eventual sterilization of the students.

Eventually, though, Natasha gets the upper hand on Clint for long enough to make her decision final, and go through with it. She leaps off the cliff, sacrificing her life for the Soul Stone.

Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film and television production company that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

In August 2009, Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. In 2001, Disney acquired Fox Family Worldwide, which was renamed ABC Family but was subsequently rebranded as Freeform.