Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings weekend box office collection:

Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has had a smashing start at the North American box office. It has begun with a collection of $29 million on Friday as per Collider. The Simu Liu movie is predicted to gross around $86 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend.

The Destin Daniel Cretton directorial is all set to break Zombie’s Halloween record for the Labor Day opening weekend gross by a huge margin. The film had a good opening in India as well. It collected Rs 3.25 crore on Friday in the country. While that would not have been a big number before, it is quite impressive in the current times when theatres aren’t open at full capacity in most parts of the country, and some haven’t even resumed function post the lockdown. Shang-Chi received highly positive reviews. It scored 92 percent on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings teaser

The China-born superhero Shang-Chi is the first Asian superhero in MCU. Also called the Master of Kung Fu, he was raised as a master of martial arts by his father (Wenwu, played by Tony Leung), who was the head of the terrorist organization Ten Rings.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings full movie, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham, has received a positive response from critics. It scored a rating of 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have shot off to a $127.6 million (about Rs. 932 crores) opening weekend at the worldwide box office, with the gross expected to rise above an estimated $139.7 million (about Rs. 1,020 crores) by the end of Monday after forecasts for the four-day Labor Day weekend in the US is accounted for. The latter total is divided into $83.5 million (about Rs. 610 crores) from cinemas in the US and Canada — beating out pre-weekend analyst predictions by nearly 40 percent — and $56.2 million (about Rs. 410 crores) from theatres elsewhere around the world.

That $56.2 million outside the US and Canada came from a total of 41 markets, with the biggest performers being the UK ($7.7 million), South Korea ($6.5 million), France ($4.3 million), Russia ($3.2 million), and Japan ($2.8 million). The British earnings for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the largest three-day opening weekend for a film in the COVID-19 era in the UK. In India, the new Marvel movie brought in Rs. 10 crores (about $1.37 million) net gross over opening weekend — net gross doesn’t include the theatre cut, unlike the box office numbers for other markets presented here.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings movie review

Ektaa Malik gave the film 2 stars. She wrote in her review, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was supposed to be the Asian Black Panther, and open the gates to Asian pride and denote a new form of storytelling, for its people and the region. The film could’ve been a real game-changer, especially in 2021, in the aftermath of the Covid Pandemic, when hate crime against Asians is at an all-time high. Sadly, it only scratches the surface and adopts peripheral nods to acknowledge Asian culture and thought. There is nothing new here.”

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