In late July, the actress sued Disney over Black Widow’s hybrid release model, as she said a good portion of her pay was determined by the movie’s box office performance.
“Disney intentionally induced Marvel’s breach of the agreement, without justification, in order to prevent Ms. Johansson from realizing the full benefit of her bargain with Marvel,” said the lawsuit, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Although the movie made $80 million in its U.S. opening weekend alone, marking Marvel’s biggest theatrical release since December 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, as The Hollywood Reporter noted, the movie also made bank on streaming, garnering $60 million from Disney+. Yet according to John Berlinksi, one of the actress’s attorneys, there may have been some shady business going down.
“It’s no secret that Disney is releasing films like ‘Black Widow’ directly onto Disney+ to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company’s stock price – and that it’s hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so,” Berlinski told CNBC at the time.
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