Let's get into our main topics here today. We're going to start off with main topic number one and our first main topic today

Oh, actually I stand corrected. I stand corrected. We actually have an off the top

We've got an off the top. We get to this is so last second

I actually totally forgot about for a second

So let's do our off the top here, shall we and that is this

One of the movies that has kind of become one of several

poster children

For this whole COVID pandemic and a movie getting delayed and delayed and delayed and going through changes is

Disney's Black Widow Marvel's Black Widow

That has been delayed several times now. We do have an actual release date for it

It was moved off of its May release date. It's just got pushed further back into July and it's all that

But an interesting fact or figure or a study

Do depending how you want to look at it has just come out about that and that is this instead of all of the delays

Causing you know the forecast for the box office of Black Widow to tumble and go downwards

They're actually saying that these delays have increased its box office forecast

Now this comes us from the folks over at Joe Blow

One of my favorite movie news sites as a matter of fact and they write the following

All delays aren't bad at least in terms of box office during an ongoing global pandemic

Marvel's Black Widow was set to be released in May of 2020 and that's forever ago now

But was delayed several times due to COVID-19 crisis

The resulted in the movie theaters being shuttered all over the world now that the vaccines have begun to roll out more effectively

And COVID-19 cases are going down in various areas

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