I have never seen any of these dire looking films. What ever happened to making good movies like one flew over the cuckoos nest, Casablanca, the whicker  man etc etc. Churning out shit after shit says just as much as the general state of people who go to watch this crap as much as it says about the Hollywood film studios. No wonder I don’t watch many films anymore.

Whoever wrote that article makes the assumption that Marvel only finally greenlit a Black Widow movie after seeing the success of Wonder Woman.

How on earth does one come to that conclusion when there's nothing that points to that in any way? Marvel Studios hasn't shown any worries when making a movie about any of their characters, why would they start now with Black Widow? Just because she's female? Plenty of female lead movies do successful, and even if they didn't I doubt that would make Marvel not want to do it. It's like the person who wrote this article doesn't even pay attention to the MCU at all.

Edit: Edited this comment to add a few clarifications. 

If they do a Black Widow movie, my first thought was it would be a origin or pre-Iron Man 2 story.

There must be a lot of back story there that hasn't been told yet, and I couldn't think of where a current story would go if it was meant to be squeezed into events that happened between one of the movies she has already been on. To do this my second thought was Scarjo wouldn't be playing BW and a younger actress would be cast to play her. Would be hard to have Scarjo playing a younger BW since her first appearance was almost 10 years ago.

I hope I am wrong though, as I don't see the draw of Black Widow solo movie without Scarlet Johansson playing the role

They should have done this 3 movies ago. She was popular, cool but that's dieing down while they for some reason give Carol Danvers someone elses name and try to make her popular.

Eitherway, as long as it's set in Russia and Yelena is in it. I'm all good.

I'm gonna say no and maybe it depends on critical reception.

Part of the reason I saw Wonder Woman was the amount of praise it received.

They're too late. There's a black widow movie called Red Sparrow coming out this year already.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw

Yeah there a exceptions. Shame they are few and far between 😜

It has a chance, considering Marvel movies generally are on an upwards trajectory, however to make a comparison, Spider-Man: Homecoming just barely outgrossed Wonder Woman worldwide (880m vs 820m). Spider-Man has the minor disadvantage of being a much more saturated series, with this being the 6th Spider-Man movie in 15 years, but Spider-Man is a bigger IP than Black Widow. I think Black Widow will end up in the 650 million range, with potential of 700+ if it gets high praise from audiences and critics.

I'm not sure about that, I don't even think the next Wonder Woman movie can earn more than the first one

I believe there's a good chance. And if there's any other superhero cameos then that could definitely boost things up (ie. Iron Man in Spider-Man Homecoming). I'd definitely watch it for sure.