'Black Widow' screening rolls out the red carpet for London film fans

Film fans young and old, some dressed as their favourite “Avengers“ characters, walked and posed on a red carpet in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday (June 29) 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. “From start to finish, this whole experience has been so absolutely crazy and the added time of two years has made it feel like it's still not real,“ actor Florence Pugh, who plays Romanoff's sister Yelena in the film,said at the event. “So the fact that pe