Marvel has done it again. After smashing the record for ‘Fast & Furious 9’, making ‘Black Widow’ the best pandemic premiere in the US with 80 million dollars during its opening weekend, The House of Ideas has surpassed all the expectations, clinching number one and setting a new milestone at the Labor Day box office American thanks to ‘Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings’.
Shang-Chi vs. Michael Myers
The feature film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, has amassed a whopping $ 71.4 million during the first three days of the bridge, estimating a total of 83.5 million once the collection of this holiday Monday is added; Which is not only a pleasant surprise for times of COVID-19 and with the Delta variant spreading on American soil, despite the fact that the pre-pandemic trend was that the marvelitas premieres exceeded 100 million easily.
Not counting the extra on Monday, ‘Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings’ has managed to snatch Rob Zombie’s fantastic ‘Halloween’ the title as highest grossing tape of Labor Day weekend; An award that he had been holding since 2007. Fourteen years later, the superhero of Simu Lui has defeated the gigantic Michael Myers.
The Top 5 with the most viewed between September 3 and 5 is completed by ‘Candyman’, which remains in second position, falling 52% but adding another notable 10.5 million to its collection – touching 40 million in total -; ‘Free Guy’, which continues to wage war after four weeks with another 8.7 million – making a total of almost 92 -; ‘The Paw Patrol’ with 4 million dollars and ‘Jungle Cruise’, which has pocketed another 3.9 million.
In Spain, in the absence of concrete figures —which we will review on Friday in the weekly premiere movie post—, ‘Shang-Chi’ also tops the list with the most viewed. After her, ‘After. Lost Souls’, ‘Maligno’, ‘The Paw Patrol’ and ‘Free Guy’ close the five highest grossing titles. Let’s hope that the three novelties that crown the top have contributed enough to move us again in figures exceeding four million euros.