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$77.2 MillionMarvel unleashed their new movie and character to the MCU this weekend with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings which not only opened at the top of the US box office but also got the top opening Labour Day weekend gross.
The Anticipation for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was so high that no other film opened at the US box office this weekend.
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US box office top 5 breakdown weekend 3rd - 5th September 2021.
Considering the world is still in the grips of a global pandemic and people are still nervious about going back to the cinema for a movie to get the best opening Labour Day weekend ever is quite comething, but the new movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has done just that.
The second movie in the MCU phase 4 series of movies opened to $71.4 Million, which is not as high as Black Widow's $80 Million but it is the second highest of the pandemic era.
Black Widow dropped quite fast and seemed to get upfront audience of people wanting to see the movie, good word of mouth with drive this movie forward and with a slow upcoming calendar of releases we could see this movie's gross climb to the highest of the year.
The movie has already broken into the top 10 movies of 2021 and after its debut release is number 9.
Last weekends top movie falls to number 2 this week as the horror remake/sequel takes $10.5 Million on its second weekend, a large but expected 53% drop over last weekend.
This takes the movies total US gross to $39 Million over its 2 weekends of release.
The smash hit number 1 movie falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of $8.7 Million, another slim drop over last weekend of just 36%.
The movie has been on the box office for 4 weekends now and has taken $91.8 Million over that time and is the sixth top movie of 2021.
THe children's favourite falls to number 4 this weekend with $4 Million, a 40% drop, giving the movie a total US gross of $30.3 Million over 3 weeks of release.
Disney's action adventure movie falls to number 5 this weekend with $3.9 Million, a very slim 21% drop over last weekend.
This gives the Dwayne Johnson starring movie a total gross of $105.6 Million over its 6 weeks of release and its the 4th top movie of 2021.
Marvel Studios have today released a new trailer for their upcoming movie Eternals which is directed by Oscar Winning Nomadland director Chloe Zhao.
"When you love something, you protect it." Watch the brand-new trailer for Marvel Studios' #Eternals. Arriving in theatres November 5. pic.twitter.com/ClywAG421i
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) August 19, 2021
The new trailer is deeper and more involved than the first trailer, we get to see more of the story, more of the special effect, and more of the emotion that will drive the movie.
The movie is set for a release on 5th November 2021 and looks to be one of the holiday hits of the year.
You can also catch the new poster Marvel has released below.
Keep up to date with the latest info from Eternals and bookmark the movie page.
Announced a few months ago a sequel to the hit movie Sonic The Hedgehog is in the works for release in 2022 and today it has been announced that British superstar Idris Elba will voice the character of Knuckles.
This should punch things up. #Knuckles https://t.co/RB4WY1qkrd
— Sonic the Hedgehog (@SonicMovie) August 10, 2021
The character first appeared in the third Sonic the Hedgehog game which was released on the Sega Megadrive (Genesis in North America) in 1994, he was the bad guy of the movie along with Dr Eggman.
Knuckles then became a good guy joining team Sonic in the fourth Sonic game Sonic & Knuckles which was also released in 1994.
No story has been announced for the new film which will get a release on April 22, 2022, also joining the movie is Sonics friend Two Tails.
Check out the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 page.
The US box office got off to a good start for the first quarter of the year by which time the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence movie Bad Boys For Life was the surprise top movie, then in March everything changed.
When the pandemic hit hard cinemas closed for 4 months and although there were weekly charts it was mainly from drive in theatres and studios started shifting release dates hoping things would get back to normal by the end of the year.
Tenet opened in August and it was considered Warner Bros. opened it too early and the movie despite taking $58 Million was considered a flop.
Studios have moved their films around even more since cinemas started to re-open and have gone into 2021 or been moved to streaming, but Warner Bros. again have tested the water at the end of the year with Wonder Woman 1984 which got a release on Christams day 2020 at cinemas and on HBO Max.
Disney has bypassed cinema all together on 2 of their potential biggest movie with Mulan going direct to Disney+ (for a premium price) and the Pixar movie Soul released on Christmas Day.
As it stands the top 20 movies in the US took a reasonable $1.6 Billion but compared to 2019 the top 20 took $5.8 Billion.
Here is 5 top grossing movies at the US box office in 2020.
Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence who return as the Miami cop duo in the third in the Bad Boys series.
The movie was a surprise box office hit on its release on 17th January and took $204.5 Million at the US box office making the top movie of the year.
Released on the 10th January (wide, it cam out in 2019 on limited to catch the Oscar deadline) the movie is based during World War one and is film as if it was a continuous single shot.
Despite not winning the best movie Oscar the film took $158 Million at the US box office and is the second best movie of 2020.
The last movie in the Skywalker Saga was released in 2019 where it took $362.1 Million and was the 6th top movie.
Because of the pandemic the movie managed to be the 3rd best film of 2020 after taking $153 Million.
After going through a strange redesign for its main character Sonic when fan feedback was not too good about his look in the trailer the movie moved to February 14th release date.
The film was a surprise hit and took $146.2 Million at the US box office making it the 4th top movie of 2020.
The sequel movie the 2017 smash hit Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was released in 2019 where it took $175.4 Million and was the 11th top film in that year.
In 2020 the movie took $142.5 Million and is the 5th top grossing of the year.
A new trailer and poster has been released for upcoming movie The War With Grandpa which can seen below.
Starring among others Robert De Niro and Uma Thurman the movie is directed by Tim Hill and it has a release date of 16th October 2020.
Peter and his grandpa used to be very close, but when Grandpa Jack moves in with the family, Peter is forced to give up his most prized possession, his bedroom.
Peter will stop at nothing to get his room back, scheming with friends to devise a series of pranks to drive him out. However, grandpa doesn"t give up easily, and it turns into an all-out war between the two.
Check out the movie page for more information on this film.