LONDON — Film fans young and old, some dressed as their favorite “Avengers” characters, walked and posed on a red carpet in London’s Leicester Square on Tuesday for a special screening of superhero story “Black Widow.”
The Marvel Studios movie, starring Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, the Russian-born spy-turned-Avenger, is among a slate of upcoming major releases postponed from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and which cinema operators hope will revive ticket sales.
A recurring character in the Marvel cinematic universe since 2010’s “Iron Man 2,” Romanoff gets a standalone movie with “Black Widow” in which she revisits her past.
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