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As we near the spring and movie theaters are still facing widespread closures, Marvel fans have been wondering if Black Widow could skip its big-screen release and go straight to streaming, like Soul, or at least drop simultaneously in cinemas and on Disney Plus, like Mulan. As things stand, however, the Scarlett Johansson vehicle remains on course to hit theaters in May, as confirmed by Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
As per Deadline, Chapek gave the update during the studio’s FYQ1 earnings call this Thursday. He revealed that Black Widow is still aiming for a purely theatrical release, although “we’ll be watching to see the reopening of theaters and consumer sentiment in terms of going back to theater”. Should the pandemic cool by the fifth month of the year, and cinemas in key places like New York and Los Angeles reopen, then the first film in the MCU’s Phase 4 will finally arrive.
If that does happen, then the pressure will be on Black Widow to reignite the public’s thirst for seeing movies on the silver screen again instead of staying safe at watching them at home. And if any movie could take that pressure it would be a Marvel Studios production. But, of course, that all depends on how the situation improves over the next three months.
When asked about how they decide which films stick with a theatrical window and which go up on Disney Plus, Chapek confirmed that Disney is taking it on a case-by-case basis and is not employing a blanket strategy like Warner Bros. is with HBO Max. He revealed that it “depends on our slate of titles and whether we need to put something on the service.”
Chapek also refused to come clean about specific figures for how Soul performed on the streaming service over Christmas, only saying “it was successful to the extent that we’re also using that strategy on Raya and the Last Dragon.” The Mouse House’s next animated flick is due out on March 5th. It’s possible that two months after that, almost to the day, we could be sitting down to watch Black Widow in cinemas.
Over a decade after their last outing on the big screen, and seven years following spinoff Bad Grandpa, the gang is finally back together again, with shooting on Jackass 4 now well underway. Of course, the film was originally set to release in March of last year before the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way, and Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his group of loveable daredevils are now set to return to cinemas in September 2021.
We still don’t know too much about the movie, but the franchise has certainly been a profitable one for the folks at Paramount, bringing in close to half a billion dollars at the box office. That may not be enough to get someone like Kevin Feige or Kathleen Kennedy excited, but let’s not forget that the combined budgetary costs of the series is just over $50 million.
So, hopes are high for Jackass 4 then, but it seems that there’s some trouble brewing behind the scenes. MovieWeb reports star star Bam Margera shared a now-deleted video on social media where he revealed that he’s not going to be in the film and urged fans to boycott it.
“I’m not in ‘Jackass 4,’ and if anybody cares about me don’t go see their movie because I will make mine way f – – king radder if you just Venmo me a dollar,” he says. “I wrote them so many ideas, and if I’m not in the movie, and they use my ideas, how do you think that that’ll make me feel? ‘F*ck you Knoxville. F*ck you Spike. F*ck you Jeff. You f*ckers never cared about me, man.’
Paramount has yet to respond to the video and none of the cast or crew have commented either, so it’s unclear at the moment what may’ve happened behind the scenes and what led to this. But with the news quickly spreading, and fans getting pretty concerned about the stunt performer, we imagine it’ll only be a matter of time before an official statement is issued.
In any case, by the time Jackass 4 gets here in September, audiences will be craving the sort of irreverent escapism that the pic will provide, and we can only hope that Bam Margera is able to sort everything out with the team and find his way back into the gang’s good graces.