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Cinema release ?

Online streaming?

Disney took stock on Tuesday, announcing in particular a new postponement of the highly anticipated

Black Widow 

and many other Marvel superhero films or cartoons, dampening hopes of a rapid recovery in American cinema attendance after a year of pandemic.

Black Widow

, starring Scarlett Johansson, was considered the main box office release of spring, and was expected to re-lure fans into multiplexes, which have just reopened with a reduced gauge of Los Angeles and New York.

The reflection of "changing public preferences"

The release date of the film dedicated to the Marvel heroine is now set for July 9, two months behind the previous Disney calendar, and will be available at the same time for subscribers of the Disney + platform, at an additional cost.

For Disney, which puts more and more forward its streaming service, this decision reflects "the evolution of the preferences of the public" in a market which "begins to recover from the pandemic".

The announcement remains a blow to cinemas which have suffered the full brunt of the pandemic and intended to take advantage of the financial windfall of Disney films to return to revenue.

Always more for Disney +

Luca

, an Italian-inspired Pixar animated film, will be released directly on Disney + in the United States without going through the cinema, while

Cruella

, a live-action film derived from

101 Dalmatians

, will be released simultaneously in theaters and in streaming May 28, reported the world's number one entertainment company.

Black Widow

was originally

slated

for release in May 2020 but the coronavirus has completely changed the studio schedule.

This postponement automatically resulted in the postponement of another Marvel film,

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

, now announced for September.

In turn, this decision by Disney may also affect the release of other big Hollywood productions which aimed to exploit the summer vein, generally very profitable.

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