{"id":4670,"date":"2021-09-07T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:49:36","slug":"disney-marvels-shang-chi-shatters-labor-day-box-office-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2021\/09\/disney-marvels-shang-chi-shatters-labor-day-box-office-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Marvel’s \u2018Shang-Chi\u2019 Shatters Labor Day Box Office Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Disney Marvel’sShang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings<\/em> made a heroic showing at the box office, where it has smashed the record for Labor Day openings with a four-day haul of $90 million and has posted the second-biggest three-day debut of the pandemic year so far, behind fellow Marvel Studios pic Black Widow<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Shang-Chi<\/em>, brought in a domestic three-day total of $75.5 million from 4,300 locations. Shang-Chi<\/em>\u2018s global haul is an estimated $146.2 million.<\/p>\n

Originally slated to hit theaters back in February, Shang-Chi<\/b> proved to be worth the wait. The PG-13-rated film, which is Marvel\u2019s first to feature an Asian superhero and be anchored by a cast and director of Asian origin, was expected to pull in between $45 and $50 million over its first weekend. But it quickly became clear that the movie\u2014which stars Simu Liu<\/b> along with Awkwafina<\/b>, Michelle Yeoh<\/b>, and Tony Leung<\/b>\u2014would blow past those bearish projections. In fact, Shang-Chi<\/b>\u2019s projected four-day holiday weekend haul of $90 million leaves the previous Labor Day box-office record holder, 2007\u2019s Halloween (with $30.6), well in the dust. It was just the sort of news that nervous theater owners were hoping for.<\/p>\n

Shang-Chi<\/b>\u00a0 audiences gave the film a straight \u2018A\u2019 CinemaScore and critics boosted the film to a 92% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Unspooling in 4,300 locations, Marvel\u2019s latest earned a whopping $16,604 per-screen average and added on another $56.2 million from overseas. While that may sound low it makes sense when you consider that the film still hasn\u2019t been scheduled for release in China\u2014one of Marvel\u2019s biggest markets.\u00a0Its one-week worldwide return is $146.2 million. With little in the way of new competition from the major studios in the next couple of weekends and the film\u2019s theatrical exclusivity for its first 45 days, Shang-Chi<\/b> should continue to pull in big bucks until at least the beginning of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney Marvel’sShang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings made a heroic showing at the box office, where it has smashed the record for Labor Day openings with a four-day haul of $90 million and has posted the second-biggest three-day debut of the pandemic year so far, behind fellow Marvel Studios pic Black Widow. Shang-Chi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}