Shang-Chi Breaks Records, Triumphant On Box Office $71.5M First Week

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“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” delivered the sizzle that struggling movie theaters so desperately needed, debuting to $71.4 million in its inaugural weekend. The Marvel adventure is on pace to rack up a mighty $83.5 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend, trumping expectations that had anticipated a debut of between $45 million to $50 million while also shattering barriers for Asian representation on screen.

The film’s three-day figure is the second best of the pandemic era, falling just behind “Black Widow’s” $80.3 million haul and edging out “F9’s” $70 million bow. It also marks a record for Labor Day openings, which is traditionally a sluggish weekend at the box office, besting the previous high-water mark set by 2007’s “Halloween,” which pulled in $30.6 million more than a decade ago and at a time when catastrophic, global pandemics seemed like the stuff of sci-fi movies.
 

Source:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/shang-chi-marvel-box-office-opening-weekend-simu-liu-1235056782/
 

Not only helping their own, but also most likely ensures the movie business to not delay any more blockbuster movies with this first week earnings report. 

Asian legend tingz! 

[River 117,673]

And with a small promotion budget, amazing

[Lumiere 5,724]

I still haven't seen it because of my flop country 

[Blastertoyo 22,734]

And they said movies with Asian leads would never sell 

also very proud of the Chinese + Hong Kong actors I’ve watched growing up reaching this level of acclaim and recognition 

[renly0910 413]

Thanks to Tony Leung

[weed 74,278]

That's crazy! I'm shook Labor Day had such low sales lol but super impressive they more than doubled it during a pandemic. Congrats to them

[Taylucifer 5,164]

here comes more POC rep

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with more marketing please Disney

 

[Dadru 2,380]

Wow this is huge! I hope more people will now go see it after this news. It’s such a good movie! 

[gypsy101 5,453]

loved the film, this success is so deserved.

[Versace 7,979]

Well deserved!

[BradleyCooper 2,115]

The movie was so great, it really deserves it!