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1) List the companies involved in the creation of Black Widow. You may wish to use   Black Widow's IMDB entry   to help with this -   see the company credits page   - but the answers can also be found in the notes above. Star Wars, Marvel's Cinematic Universe, DC Extended Universe 2) What is conglomerate ownership and how does it link to Black Widow? Most major media companies are conglomerates that own a range of smaller companies (called subsidiaries). An example of this is Disney owning Marvel which has black widow as its 24th film. 4) How was Black Widow promoted to an audience? List at least  three  different methods used by the film's marketing campaign and  why  they were effective in promoting the film. T he film used tweets from audience members to help promote the film Traditional methods such as posters and teaser trailers on TV and in cinema. Film trailers were released on YouTube and in cinemas.  5) What was the production budget...

  1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? There were 22 films at the time. 2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article? According to this article, the MCU made  more than $18.2bn . 3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? In 2007, Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold off the film rights to some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man.  Marvel still owned the superheroes who form the core Avengers team - Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America - so used the early MCU films to introduce these heroes.  Marvel then brought these characters together for the crossover film Avengers Assemble.   4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? Spider-Man was sold to Sony. The studio made a Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, and soon afterwards rebooted the franchise less success...