‘Shang-Chi’ exceeds $ 400 million worldwide as ‘Venom 2’ approaches $ 200 million

In the non-James Bond box office news for the weekend, Sony Venom: let there be carnage won an additional $ 32.5 million (-64%) in the second weekend. The Tom Hardy / Woody Harrelson movie took an understandable hit from No time to die, because the James Bond film is obviously more competition than it was First man in Venomthe second weekend of October 2018. Nonetheless, the film grossed $ 143 million in ten days, just between Black Widow ($ 131 million on the tenth day after an $ 80 million Friday-Sunday debut) and Shang-Chi ($ 144 million after a $ 94 million debut between Friday and Monday). If I’m optimistic then I’d say the 95-minute, beginner-friendly continuity lite superhero romantic comedy will stand firm over the next month or so as the consensus pick / second pick for moviegoers in general by compared to the “very serious” 2.5 hour action fantasies.

Think Spider-Man: Homecoming (1.61 times its ten-day total after a 62% drop on the second weekend) or any number of Adam Sandler comedies from the mid-2000s. Even the legs from that point on, like Blumhouse’s super frontloaded Halloween ($ 159 million on a ten-day cumulative of $ 126 million after a weekend of $ 76 million) gets the budget of $ 110 million Venom 2 to 180 million domestic dollars. Legs like Black Widow (1.4x the total over ten days) brings it to $ 200 million. It has $ 186 million worldwide (including a first hit of $ 10 million in Mexico), as it opens in most of its overseas territories this week. We can only speculate if it will come close to its predecessor’s overseas predecessor’s total of $ 371 million without China ($ 269 million). The No time to die overseas revenue ($ 257 million to date) is certainly good news for Venom 2.

from China The Battle of Changjin Lake recovered during his second weekend. The film fell hard ($ 25million) on Friday, but rallied for gross $ 110million on the second weekend, just -45% from its $ 203million Friday-Sunday debut. (and $ 236 million Thursday-Sunday). It’s a better grip than Detective Chinatown 3 (-89% for a second weekend of $ 42 million after a record debut of $ 398.5 million) and The Wandering Earth (-50% after a Fri-Sun debut at $ 179 million). And that’s with a lot of people seeing the Wu Jing / Jackson Yee movie during the National Day holiday week. He made 640 million dollars in 11 days (a little more Detective Chinatown 3$ 611 million cumulative over ten days). Next week’s deductions will determine if he peaks Hi Mom ($ 837 million). It’s not exactly a #CanThisFranchiseBeSaved situation.

Walt disney and marvel Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings continued to kick, gaining another $ 4.2 million (-31%) in the sixth weekend for a new domestic income of $ 212.45 million. It still looks like a final domestic gross of between $ 220 million and $ 225 million, which itself still looks like 85% of what it could have generated nationally in non-pandemic times. While it obviously took a hit overseas in compromised foreign markets, it still surpassed $ 400 million globally this weekend, becoming the first pandemic-era Hollywood film in the world. do without a big boost (with all due respect to Godzilla vs. Kong and F9) from China. by James Bond No time to die Probably will do that next weekend too, but Marvel Shang-Chi was first.

Could pre-Covid overseas conditions and China’s expected $ 125 million bring the film closer to Thor: The Dark World ($ 644 million) that Thor ($ 449 million)? Sure, but it could just be # ShangChi2Goals. Damn, if Shang-Chi 2 earns what we would otherwise expect from a Marvel breakout sequel (think Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) had Shang-Chi ended by Doctor strange ($ 677 million) in gross revenue, then we will have a recovery (from $ 400 million to $ 800 million) worthy of John wick. It’s obviously fun with the math, but the movie clearly did what it needed to do, both cementing Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi as Marvel’s final marque character and proving that a movie released. only in theaters could justify the lack of day and -date options.

MGM The Addams Family 2 earned an additional $ 10.019 million (-42%) in its second weekend. That will give the animated sequel a total of $ 31.14 million over ten days, or just over $ 30 million than its 2019 predecessor brought in on opening weekend. This predecessor fell 46% in the face of more specific demographic competition (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil), so it’s a good take so far. If this persists, we can expect a domestic finish of $ 55-60 million. Again, this sequel was never going to overtake its “people were curious the first time” predecessor. A non-Covid domestic gross of $ 70 million ($ 60 million x 1.15) would have looked about right. During this time, free guy won $ 1.3 million (-43%) in Weekend Nine for $ 119.681 million domestically and $ 322 million globally.

In other overseas news, Dune earned an additional $ 8.8 million in its fourth weekend release, losing a fair 41% despite brutal competition from James Bond. The $ 165 million sci-fi opus directed by Denis Villeneuve has now grossed $ 117 million worldwide, and many key markets (including North America and China on the 22nd). October) are yet to come. The film still has a huge mountain to climb before it becomes commercially justifiable, but it is currently 12% ahead of Principle, 67% in front Black Widow, 67% in front Shang-Chi, 91% ahead of Blade Runner 2049 and 106% in front Godzilla vs. Kong. Action drama Timothée Chalamet / Zendaya / Oscar Isaac / Rebecca Ferguson / Jason Momoa has won $ 11 million in IMAX (11% of total) and will open in Japan this week.

The Many Saints of Newark won $ 1.45 million (-69%, not so well) in the second weekend for a ten-day total of $ 7.407 million. This Soprano prequel was never, ever going to play beyond the fan base, not before Covid and certainly not know. Save for great examples like The Godfather ($ 133 million in 1973) and Goodfellas ($ 52 million in 1990), the action-lite crowd flick is generally not as commercially reliable (ditto WWII films) as Hollywood seems to think. There’s a reason Paramount and his friends wouldn’t spend $ 160 million on Martin Scorsese Irish. Even in a pre-Covid market, even spending $ 60 million on this movie was a calculated risk. Well if HBO Max gets a David Chase creation Soprano spin-off, it might have been worth it.

Universal Dear Evan Hansen won $ 1 million (-60%) in the third weekend for a poor 17-day $ 13.7 million. Universal fellow has exceeded 60 million national dollars. A24 Lamb (which is roughly… no, better find out for yourself) opened in 583 theaters with $ 1 million. This is obviously a low number, but a weird advantage of our current normal is that independent gems like Titanium (another “Better Go Blind” movie with $ 1 million after ten days) gets semi-wide releases at major movie chains. If you want the best double in the world, I suggest you both in an absurd afternoon. And you will probably see the Jackass forever trailer aired in front of the two of them, which is the surest sign that the cinema is not dead yet.