Black Widow soars to pandemic box office record

This image released by Marvel Studios shows Scarlett Johansson in a scene from Black Widow. (Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)

Even with an option to watch Black Widow at home, audiences went to the cinema in pandemic record numbers this weekend to catch the first Marvel movie released in two years.

The Walt Disney Co said on Sunday that the superhero flick generated an estimated 80 million dollars (£57.5 million) in ticket sales in North America.