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Box-Office Weekend: Shang-Chi Wins by a Knockout

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Marvel returned to the top of the box-office weekend for the holiday as the latest offering from the studio, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings debuted at number one over the weekend, bringing in $71.4 million.

In a very distant second place was last week’s top finisher, Candyman, which added $10.6 million over the weekend to lift it’s two-week total to $39.1 million. Similarly dropping one spot was Free Guy, which took in $8.7 million and landed in third place in its fourth week of release. Meanwhile, PAW Patrol: The Movie also fell a spot in its third week in theaters, earning $4.0 million, for a total of $30.3 million. Over six weeks, the Disney’s Jungle Cruise has made a total of $105.6 million, $3.95 million of which it added this weekend to finish in fifth place just behind PAW Patrol.

Dropping one spot to sixth place was the horror film Don’t Breathe 2, which took in $2.2 million in its fourth week of release, giving it a total of $28 million. The Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, also dropped a spot, finishing in seventh place with $1.3 million, giving it a four-week total of $21.9 million. Also falling a spot, from seventh to eighth was the Warner Bros. offering The Suicide Squad, which took in $905,000 in its fifth week of release, giving the film a to-date total of $54.4 million. Climbing up a spot, after rejoining the top ten last weekend, was the Marvel film Black Widow, which added $748,00 to lift its nine-week tally to $182.5 million.

Falling to the final place in this week’s top ten was The Night House with $552,000, giving the film a three-week grand total of $6.3 million. Dropping from the top ten was The Protege, which departs with a three-week total of $6.9 million.

Weekend Box Office (September 3rd – September 5th)

  1. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings…$71.4 Million
  2. Candyman…$10.6 Million
  3. Free Guy…$8.7 Million
  4. PAW Patrol: The Movie…$4.0 Million
  5. Jungle Cruise…$4.0 Million
  6. Don’t Breathe 2…$2.2 Million
  7. Respect…$1.3 Million
  8. The Suicide Squad…$905,000
  9. Black Widow…$748,000
  10. The Night House…$552,000 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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